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Should be self-explanatory. They essentially have all the same apps as a phone now.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Then it would logically follow that smart watches would be called...

microphones.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Say hello to the gigaphone. image

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What about virtual reality headsets? Facephones?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that makes more sense.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Except the actual phone part.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The voice chat app?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

pretty sure my son with an android tablet and my daughter with a iPad can both still make phone calls lol. They are literally megaphones.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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There are VoIP options, sure, but not the actual phone bands.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty sure you can get cell data on iPads now, it's pretty interesting that you can't make calls with them even when they have sim cards (or eSim)

A quick search says they can only do wifi calling by relaying your iPhone to your iPad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

For all phones there is sim card ability(afaik) Only half of the tablets have that

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Apart from megaphones already having that name.