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Systems, devices, and methods for remote access smartphone services are described. The mobile operating system and smartphone applications are stripped out of smartphone hardware and stored as a virtual smartphone instance at a host server. The virtual smartphone instance remains addressable by a phone number. A specialized portable interface device (such as a smartglasses device, a smartwatch, or an adapted smartphone device) remotely accesses the virtual smartphone instance through a cellular or internet connection and utilizes the smartphone applications to deploy smartphone services, including messaging and phone calling via the phone number. The systems, devices, and methods are extended to include a cellular telecommunications content delivery network comprising multiple portable interface devices all remotely accessing respective virtual smartphone instances corresponding to unique phone numbers, with virtual smartphone instances edge cached in relation to the portable interface devices.