Though you can't actually click on Habit Burger in Davis commons and leave a met/data, tag infused opinion on the restaurant itself, YELP and plenty of other user generated review site, all accessible from a smart phone, easily change my decision of whether I actually patron the establishment. I don't have to vocally hear from a friend that they recommend the restaurant, or have to suffer through the poor service on my own. These aren't even my close friends posting these virtual bills of (dis)approval, they are relative strangers but, their opinions, and the hundred of concurring ones, all accessed within seconds, can't be that far off.
Another example of the constant connection to the vital data that drives my life is between public transpiration and my cell phone. Unitrans has employed NEXTBUS, a service that tracks every bus via GPS, and using its location and speed on it's route, I can text my bus stop number to NEXTBUS to get an exact time of arrival. While my phone dose not have GPS capabilities, I have MacGyvered a gps bus tracking devise, the microprocessor of my phone's texting capability communicating with NEXTBUS' GPS data.
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Like you, a lot of people don't have certain capabilities on their phones like internet and GPS. Do you think that one day it will be necessary to have those features? Like in China they force people to buy certain phones.
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