Mobile phone has been a sincere companion of human being since the beginning of 21st century. Earlier it could be afforded by billionaires only, later millionaires, middle class people, students and eventually all class of people. This transition took place in a period of 10 years. No other product of modern mankind have percolated so fast through all layers of social strata.
My first encounter with a real color screen phone was in 2003 when my classmate brought it. My family got a phone within next few months which was a gift from my uncle abroad. Two years later when I joined for Medicine, my brother who was a senior in same college gifted me a phone on my Birthday, My first personal phone. It was a Nokia 1600 with basic functions.
I had to wait two more years, the two years which has seen the fastest acceleration in releasing new model phones, development of phone as a multimedia personal companion than just a phone. The 'N series' by Nokia was viral. They got a new model with some new features every fortnight. I requested my Dad and he bought me my second phone and my first smartphone 'N73',with a Symbian software.
With smartphones came the new issue. The more features it had, the slower it was. Not to mention the added effect of internet viral infections. Although the phone could do magic with its peanut sized brain and memory, gradually it became old. But I loved that phone so much. It is still functional with my Dad while I am writing this. He could not throw away what he got with his hard earned 16 grants.
After two years came the Android era. It was the solution for the 'Quest for phone that never hangs'. One year later I also changed to the new stream. It was magical. Superfast phones with unbelievable free softwares. A software for anything in the world. And the phone froze at a rate of once a year only. It was the days of Samsung.
It is now almost three years since I started using Android. It still works fine, but the hanging rate has increased and one has to get a new phone with bigger processor to keep up in the front line. The Nokia is now playing both cards, Windows and Android. Samsung is almost done with innovations except for releasing phones with bigger RAM at a cost of Fifty grands and the Chinese phone companies are now infecting the market virally with their cheaper and 150 percent cost benefit phones.
What probed me to writing this happened two days back in our OT changing room. The Anaesthetist was telling he is going to get a Windows phone. I asked why. He replied "Thats the only thing that never hang these days"
My first encounter with a real color screen phone was in 2003 when my classmate brought it. My family got a phone within next few months which was a gift from my uncle abroad. Two years later when I joined for Medicine, my brother who was a senior in same college gifted me a phone on my Birthday, My first personal phone. It was a Nokia 1600 with basic functions.
I had to wait two more years, the two years which has seen the fastest acceleration in releasing new model phones, development of phone as a multimedia personal companion than just a phone. The 'N series' by Nokia was viral. They got a new model with some new features every fortnight. I requested my Dad and he bought me my second phone and my first smartphone 'N73',with a Symbian software.
With smartphones came the new issue. The more features it had, the slower it was. Not to mention the added effect of internet viral infections. Although the phone could do magic with its peanut sized brain and memory, gradually it became old. But I loved that phone so much. It is still functional with my Dad while I am writing this. He could not throw away what he got with his hard earned 16 grants.
After two years came the Android era. It was the solution for the 'Quest for phone that never hangs'. One year later I also changed to the new stream. It was magical. Superfast phones with unbelievable free softwares. A software for anything in the world. And the phone froze at a rate of once a year only. It was the days of Samsung.
It is now almost three years since I started using Android. It still works fine, but the hanging rate has increased and one has to get a new phone with bigger processor to keep up in the front line. The Nokia is now playing both cards, Windows and Android. Samsung is almost done with innovations except for releasing phones with bigger RAM at a cost of Fifty grands and the Chinese phone companies are now infecting the market virally with their cheaper and 150 percent cost benefit phones.
What probed me to writing this happened two days back in our OT changing room. The Anaesthetist was telling he is going to get a Windows phone. I asked why. He replied "Thats the only thing that never hang these days"
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