Smartphones: DOs and DON'Ts

DON'Ts:

1. Don't use it to do major writing, such as wiring a message longer than a few characters.  Remember smartphones don't normally come with a keyboard or a mouse.
2. Don't use it to check your mails, browse the web, etc when you are walking.  It is unsightly and dangerous.
3. Don't use it when you should be talking to strangers,  friends and family.
4. Don't disturb others when you use it as a phone. 

DOs:

1. Use it as an alarm clock, a count down timer and a stop watch.  In short use it as an all-purpose timer.
2. Use it as a sort of a swiss army knife.
3. Use it to check weather.
4. Use Evernote to compose shopping list
5. Use Google Map to locate things and prevent from getting lost
6. Use its camera to take pictures.  Note that this camera is no substitute for a good camera with stabilizer.  For example, the quality of the pictures will be poor if used on a whale-watching cruise.  Note that if you choose, the pictures when uploaded will have a google map alongside.  
7. Use it as a flashlight.
8. Use the cell network to provide Internet access to your Notebook computer when there is no Wi-Fi, such as when you are taking a bus.
9. Use it as a USB drive as you would a flash drive.
10. Use it as an iPod to listen to music, audiobooks, etc.  Use a stereo bluetooth headset for this.
11. In a store, use your phone to scan a bar-code just like the casher, to find information or do comparison shopping.