What do you use your smartphone for?

bright · May 2013

I'm sure everyone calls, texts, and checks their e-mail; but what else do you use your smartphone for?

Thrax · May 2013

Browsing Reddit while pooping.

Canti · May 2013

primesuspect · May 2013

My job.

CB · May 2013

Video games while pooping. Lots of Netflix at various times. Photographing the cats and baby. I actually don't make many calls. Verizon's website says I spent less than a hundred minutes actually using my phone as a phone last month. That's why I keep trying to call it something else, but none of the names I try ever stick. I just get ridiculed for it. :P

Basil · May 2013

Bought a Note because I use my smartphone for a lot of 'work' stuff so I have:

British National Formulary (and childrens' formulary) - Big ol' book of drugs.
NICE Guidance - Practice guidelines and technology appraisals for England/Wales.
Qx Calculate - Laziest way to get a BMI/eGFR.
SIGN Guidance - Practice guidelines for Scotland.

Also have emulators for my TI-85 (andie graph) and gameboy (gameboid) for the pokeman's.

UPSLynx · May 2013

My job. Tracking my runs when I exercise. Tracking my diet. Playing games on the go. Playing games on the toilet. Tracking my sleep. Waking me up. Reading Icrontic. Navigating me around LA in the shortest time possible.

I use it a lot, almost constantly each day. Love it.

Snarkasm · May 2013

Reddit, argument-solver, tech experiment, and music source. Oh, and XBMC remote/streamer/etc. I don't think I've made more than 5 calls on a cell phone in the last half year.

Jokke · May 2013

Calling, texting, photos of important stuff I must remember, games, apps of all sorts (esp. flashlight app), some surfing, calendar. Pretty much everything.

GnomeWizardd · May 2013

talk text, GPS is huge for me. flashlight, keeping up with sports, Finding food, Email for work, reddit, news, Pictures, Facebook,Pandora Radio ( alot ) and weather updates

Kwitko · May 2013

Doing stuff while pooping.

ardichoke · May 2013

Reddit while pooping
Twitter while pooping
Reading RSS feeds while pooping
Taking pictures of my dog... this one not while pooping

AlexDeGruven · May 2013

Well, sometimes the dog might be pooping.

ardichoke · May 2013

Speaking as someone who has to watch him poop, nobody wants to see that. Now if I could share smells via my smartphone....

Linc · May 2013

In this approximate order:

Text/Phone
Taking & sharing photos
Web search
Alarm clock
GPS / mapping
Document editing (mostly to-do and buy lists for the house)
Ordering Dominos
Music player
Web development (job)

Minimal email, games, or leisure web browsing.

GnomeQueen · May 2013

Reddit, reddit, reddit, reddit, reddit, reddit, Facebook.

Real answer, in no particular order: Reddit, Facebook, GPS, Gmail, gchat, text, call, random questions when I'm out

Ryder · May 2013

Text/Phone
Email (work)
Taking and Sharing photos
Twitter/Facebook
GPS
Google-sourcing data to settle discussions/arguments.

shwaip · May 2013

webterneting on my busride to/from work
gps
clock
music while i do dishes

Cliff_Forster · May 2013

We should perform an icrontic metric, phone use while pooping. This is important research. Would time spent pooping be greatly reduced without your phone? Hmmmmm, For Science!

PirateNinja · May 2013

Didn't we do this a couple expos ago where we were all on some chat app, and every time someone pooped they told everyone about it in real time? brb, pooping.

CyrixInstead · May 2013

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned torch yet, I find that one of the phone's best functions.
Facebook
Internet
Camera/Video
Clock
Chat, normally sorting out football (soccer)
Checking the football scores
Poker
Calendar e.g. appointments
Music (BBC iPlayer connected to my car's AV)
Timer when cooking
Rarely, GPS, which is the biggest battery drain ever but good when in the car & charging in the cigarette lighter.
Morning alarm. And I'm sure I'm not the only person who found out my 'smart' phone isn't as smart as my old dumb phone the first day I got it, when I set my alarm and switched it off before going to bed. How the hell a smartphone cannot wake itself up like dumb phones have been doing forever is beyond me!!!

\Edit - Oh, and occasionally making phone calls and sending texts haha

Teramona · May 2013

When Dan's asleep next to me at night, but I'm not tired, I'll look up pictures of boobs so that the next day I can think "haha... Dan missed out on all those boobs last night." And then I get mad, because he probably would have liked to see them... and then I feel better again, because he didn't get to. Then he'll ask me if I'm okay, and I'll say yes even though, in my mind, I've already won a fight with him that he never had a chance in.

Some nights I just play solitaire.

primesuspect · May 2013

PoopMe

Ilriyas · May 2013

Music
Work
Music at work
Games
Brian Blessed Alarm Clock
Take pictures of things so I can draw them later
Take notes of things so I can draw them later
Personal reminders I forget to look at
Reminders telling me to look at the reminders I forget to look at
Calling People
Facebook (Rarely)
Texting
Email
Mumble
A bunch of other random crap

GnomeQueen · May 2013

Teramona said:
When Dan's asleep next to me at night, but I'm not tired, I'll look up pictures of boobs so that the next day I can think "haha... Dan missed out on all those boobs last night." And then I get mad, because he probably would have liked to see them... and then I feel better again, because he didn't get to. Then he'll ask me if I'm okay, and I'll say yes even though, in my mind, I've already won a fight with him that he never had a chance in.

Some nights I just play solitaire.

wat

Thrax · May 2013

Diggin' deep for those lulz.

Teramona · May 2013

Thrax said:
Diggin' deep for those lulz.

The war's over. Let it be in the past.

mas0n · May 2013

Still using my Nexus S and other than call/text/mail it is mostly a GPS + music streamer in the car and reddit access device.

Also, hello there.

Canti · May 2013

Chooch · May 2013

text
phone calls (especially to Ben Wayne)
web browsing
social media
porn
camera
clock
alarm clock
planner
email

Teramona · May 2013

Canti said:

So much time has passed between then and now, I'm not even sure I'm the same person anymore. Maybe none of us are.

Also... I use my phone for everything, to the point where I feel vulnerable if I don't know where it is, or if I don't have it on me. If it had an application that would make my breakfast for me, or brush my teeth 3 times a day, or make it so that my medulla was permanently damaged and could no longer regulate my my respiratory system so that I would have to rely on my phone's constant beeping to remind me to keep breathing... I'd use it.

For now I use it when I'm lost (google maps), when I'm hungry and lost (yelp), when I'm bored and hungry (yelp, games), when I'm just bored (solitaire and boobs), when I haven't been on Facebook in the last ten minutes (Facebook), when I have been on Facebook in the last ten minutes (Twitter), when I feel like I've spent enough days in hiding (Icrontic.com), aaaaand tea (tea).

What do you use your smartphone for?

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