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Evolution with Changing Times

I was probably around 14 years old when I was first exposed to a real boy’s toy – a mid-90’s gaming console. It wasn’t mine, of course, but that of a friend. I knew then that I’d found my first love, but also felt that handling stuff like these was probably just once in a lifetime opportunity for me.

I wouldn’t notice then that my bare necessities were evolving. Little did I know that, in under a couple of years, consoles like these would be obsolete and that my life will be inundated with electronics (of all sort) in more ways than I’d care to remember!

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March 26, 2014 16 Comments

How to Buy a Mobile

Yesterday, I and a friend of mine were off to buy a mobile, for him. Since he had already made his choice and had even decided on the shop, things were rather smooth for us. No bustling around trying to compare this with that and finally fall prey to the shopkeeper’s theatrical skills.

We were informed that they don’t have any working piece to try our hands-on. So we decided to buy the phone and finally after we did we said we wanted to test the phone at leisure. Being the kind host the shopkeeper was he had no qualms about it and we started looking into this funky gadget one feature after another.

So, the first thing was display. It was cool, good enough and had adequate clarity in it. So we decided to browse through the menus and have a look at the processing speed. It was not so bad after all, but yeah it did get a bit slow while operating the camera. Speaking of the cam, it offered real good resolution; but as expected in most mobiles video quality was so-so.

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August 31, 2006 Add Comment