A list of 10 things that have been significantly changed or deemed obsolete as the result of mass smart phone adoption.

Alarm Clocks - We can now ensure we wake up no matter where we passed out. Setup multiple alarms and program elaborate schemes to ensure we wake up.

Physical Money - Paper money is a drain on the economy. While debit cards and RFID technology represent the primary force conditioning consumers to make paper free transactions, mobile phones will supercharge ecommerce in the near future and make for the ultimate location-aware currency.

Handset Manufacturers - Companies like Motorola are steadily losing market share as consumers select phones not for their hardware (the phone itself) but for the software that runs the phones interface and associated applications. Motorola recently responded with plans to officially separate its business into two entities.

Rolodex - Computers pretty much killed these long ago but with operating systems like Android that save your contacts in ‘the cloud,’ we can ensure that whether we lose a hard drive or a phone, we don’t lose our contacts.

Pay Phones - Affordable pay-as-you-go cell phones offer cheap rates with more privacy and less bacteria.

Complete Sentences - Between auto correct and text message brevity, you can say goodbye to sentence structures. I have.

Stand alone GPS devices - There is no need to spend on an additional device when location aware smart phones employ GPS. My Android taps into Google Maps (street view!) to give me directions step-by-step or turn-by-turn and I sa

MP3 Players & Digital Cameras - More devices take up more room in my pocket. Convergent functionality is simply more convenient.

Silence - “I see you tweeting via mobile, so why you aren’t you returning my texts?”

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