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don't you pity that poor Luddite I'm sure you know who's still carrying around some dumb flip phone telling you I don't need a smartphone I just want to make calls okay that's a little harsh but smartphones aren't really even about being phones anymore I'm Brian Cooley with the top five things the smartphone replaces not even including your home phone line based on a survey done in June 2011 by prosper mobile insights see how many of these ring a bell with you number five is the mp3 player 37 percent of us don't use one of those once we get a smartphone you see simple phones were generally crap or non-functional as iPods but smart phones are usually at least okay with their big colour screens touch interfaces plenty of and often expandable storage oh and they are connected so they can stream stuff like Pandora and Spotify at last.fm now you may find a smart phone a little too bulky or delicate to sweat all over as your gym music device but aside from that you can see why the iPod is rapidly becoming quaint tip number four is the personal planner 41.6% of us ah thank you smart phone for jamming a stake in the heart of those horrible old Franklin Covey day planners with their bad pleather jackets that match your bad tassel loafers of course syncing calendars across various web services to various smart phones can give you a stress-related disease but at least you won't die clutching a day book number three is the digital point shoot camera about 44% of us said goodbye I don't recall the last time I used my point-and-shoot digital not even sure where it is to be honest for many people there just is no longer a gap between the smartphone on one end of photography and the DSLR on the high-end smartphones now take high-res photos off an HD video they share the stuff because they're connected they can GPS stamp things all in one little stealthy device that doesn't say I'm a tourist oh by the way if you want a great camera phone check out my other recent top 5 best camera phones at top 5 cnet.com okay the number two thing the smartphone kills is the GPS portable navigation device 52% of us don't use those once we get a smartphone now there's decent - excellent turn-by-turn navigation they'll say yeah too many compromises the screen size is a little too small the power usage means I might not be able to make a call multitasking can be kind of clumsy but you know most of us don't use and have that often once in a while like I bet you know how to get to work and back so GPS navigator business can you guess what it is here are some other things that is knocked off from a little further down the list including a disturbing one 24% of us say we got rid of our computer because we got a smartphone let's not go overboard here okay the number one thing people say their smartphone put in the box to sell on eBay is their alarm clock right I don't even know how to set my alarm clock anymore your phone is your appointment travel to do and home alarm device why would you have a separate one on the nightstand that does nothing but just wake you up for more top fives like this go to top-5 cnet.com i'm brian coulis thanks for watching you