Am i the only one that sees it the other way around i.e nintendo intruding on apple and smart phones market. Think about it the main reason ppl buy this stuff is for communication, whether by phone calls or msg. Some of these things can already be replicated on the 3ds easily and nintendo has already said that they will be updating there software for the system as time goes by.
Picto chat over the net can easily be used instead of bbm or wap or msn messenger or whatever. Voip can be used to make voice calls cause the system does come with a mic. And with wirless hubs becoming more popular and the speed of the internet increasing its not hard to imagine and the 3ds is quite capable of doing it. So i think its safe to say nintendo knows exactly what they are doing
My 3ds friendcode: 5413-0232-9676 (G-cyber)