{"items": [{"author": "Allison", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103741579182942078941", "anchor": "gp-1328409770476", "service": "gp", "text": "I often use my phone as a mirror for putting in my contacts when traveling, especially while camping...but it's not a smartphone.  All you need is a reflective surface, like a pair of sunglasses or a glossy screen that's off.  Makeup would be a little more tricky I'd imagine, since color is important.\n<br>\n<br>\nI'm all in favor of a many-in-one device, but I'm still not sold on smartphones yet (in the minority, I know).", "timestamp": 1328409770}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1328416791045", "service": "gp", "text": "@Allison\n I caught a glimpse of the screen of one of them once, and it was mirroring.", "timestamp": 1328416791}, {"author": "Jessica", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/282848938445462?comment_id=283323935064629", "anchor": "fb-283323935064629", "service": "fb", "text": "There are special screen protectors that are highly reflective exactly for this purpose. That's possibly what that person had. I started out with one of those, but it made reading the information on the screen much more difficult, in the day time in particular. You would have to turn the brightness of the screen up to compensate, running the battery down. Not really worth having!", "timestamp": "1328451915"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1352092113157", "service": "gp", "text": "@Allison\n\u00a0In retrospect, and having seen more people doing it since, I think you're right: they were probably just using it as a reflective surface and I mis-saw.", "timestamp": 1352092113}, {"author": "Allison", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103741579182942078941", "anchor": "gp-1352093073421", "service": "gp", "text": "@Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman\n\u00a0You might not have mis-seen in that instance, but using a camera/screen for mirroring is probably less common than just the reflective surface--the simple surface is higher res and faster.", "timestamp": 1352093073}]}