6 Most Used Gadgets Killed by Smart-Devices

Voice recorder: Mostly media persons all over the world used portable voice recorders; as it helped them record interviews and comments of the people while they report live events. It even made for a great tool in the hands of researchers, story writers, and actors, to record their progress from time to time. Of late, most smartphones have an in-built feature to record audio.

Built-in microphones and extra storage space makes it a breeze to record sound with smartphones, reducing the need of an extra gadget. Its biggest advantage is that the data is not stored in a physical form, but is instead saved as a soft copy, which can be stored, transferred, or shared with ease.

Navigation devices: GPS systems were performing well over the last decade in most of the cars as a way of getting to the desired locations by giving accurate directions. There are many reasons that you can count for standalone portable navigation systems to become obsolete. Smartphones can be one big reason for it as it has already provides enough functionality as a GPS system. Most smartphones come with either a built-in GPS or an available subscription service that can do the same job as the old GPS's. In fact, Apple's new iOS 6 is likely to include "visual and spoken turn-by-turn navigation and real-time traffic updates.