My iPhone used in 2021
Ravi Speaks:
Updated on14.03.2023.
‘My Mobile’-without which I’m handicapped.
It was somewhere at the beginning of the twenty-first century I had purchased my first Mobile Phone-what we used to call a cell phone. I still remember we were three Regional Managers based in Delhi and were told to purchase the Nokia Cell phone from the market by our company for the official-purpose. I had received a very heavy, elongated Mobile phone from the Ghaffar market of Karol Bagh along with my other colleagues. It was very heavy and one could not keep it in the shirt pocket at least. Initially, I used to keep it in my working bag’s outer pocket so that its ring was audible. It looked as if we were carrying a small wireless system-which used to be with the mobile army-men. Those days Nokia was the company hot in discussion and in India, it had spread its wings well with those types of initial instruments. In India, Nokia used to be hot-selling, but in reality, it was Motorola that had the distinction of inventing the first cell phone. Dr. Martin Cooper and his team of developers at Motorola invented the cell phone. The first cell phone weighed 2.4-pounds and was 9-inches long. Dr. Cooper also made the first cell phone call at Motorola on April 3, 1973.
We started realizing the ease it gave us while communicating and the speed of working too picked up the proportionate pace with this cell phone. For almost around two years, we carried on with those heavier mobiles of Nokia and immediately after that, the smaller lighter Mobiles of Nokia only were available and we changed those heavier items with the new ones. I could easily place this new phone in the front shirt pocket and was very easy to handle, and it made our works even easier further. Those days I remember my company authorities even gave me two-three such small Nokia brands for the distribution to the VIPs in our business and it was received very well by one and all.
Slowly and steadily, a lot of transformation came into the Mobile sets as well. From a simple Cell Phone, the time for the Smartphone came during this transactional period, and slowly and steadily the new features started operating on these smartphones. IBM developed the first unofficial smartphone in 1992. It was a prototype device, with PDA-like features, including maps, news feeds, and stock quotes. The prototype resulted in an improved version being released to the market in 1994, called the Simon Personal Communicator. This device was the first official smartphone, with capabilities to send and receive e-mails, and included apps like an address book, calculator, calendar, and a notepad. We started texting, sending e-mails, doing even the official updating of stocks and logistics follow up, and above all conveying our action plans rapidly to our field staff. The result of all that got converted into faster results coming and easier communication meant helping us to update all the field people to the micro interior levels within no time.
Nowadays, a smart mobile device usually serves as an information gateway for mobile users involving various personalized activities such as checking e-mails, making appointments, surfing the web, locating interesting spots, analyzing personal behavior data based on data mining and machine learning, etc. A smartphone truly is a computer in your hand, but it is more than that, it is a camera, an audio system, a navigation system, and a wireless communications device. Each of these functions has its own dedicated hardware and software which enables us to get the best experience from our handsets.
I remember, with the purchase of a good laptop, we were told to go in for the purchase of a good smartphone. Both these things changed the lives of people like me, the managers in the field, drastically. With the advancement of a few more years in 2007-08-when, I was given the higher responsibility as the Sales manager-My dependence on this smartphone was almost 70-75% and the rest of 25-30% on my laptop for the rest of the administrative returns to be submitted well in time.
As I have already written about the two occasions when I lost my iPhones-it still gives me a very sad feeling that I could not save those costlier ones and more so, I lost each one of those with almost all the information stored in them. One I lost in Gaya at the Railway Station while crossing the railway line running over it with the crowd and the other when I met with an accident in 2017 in Pathankot. That time it was in the early morning just getting down from the Auto rickshaw and crossing over to the Bus stand. Despite all efforts, I could not recover even a single one out of the two. I still remember how much I was feeling handicapped on that day when I was on my way from Gaya to Patna and late in the night at around 10.30 PM I reached the Patna station without the mobile with no addresses with me even except the hotel details where I was supposed to be checking in that night.
I still remember that straight from the Railway station Patna I picked up a man driven rickshaw and went straight to Chatterjee Marg near my Hotel and started searching for any such shop which was selling any sort of mobile so that I could buy the same and for the time being till I reached my hometown I could do my official work at least. Finally, at around 11.00 PM in the night, I could see one shop half open since that gentleman was closing his shop, and it was the shop of Samsung Mobiles. I purchased one Smart Mobile of Samsung for around Rs.11000/- and could find almost all the required features in the same. Then, with the new Mobile in the hand could at least go to my hotel with a bit of satisfaction that something was surely better than nothing in the hand.
That night I tried to gather all my contacts through the Google cloud and I was successful in getting the new Mobile updated with the contact lists at least so that I could at least recognize the incoming calls and also do the basic Mobile work of communicating the messages. That day when I purchased this Samsung, I decided I was unnecessarily purchasing the costlier iPhones and then losing them in the fray for no fault of mine and it was becoming a usual happening with me. So I decided I would carry on with this Samsung only since it was equally working quick and Android too was doing a wonderful job for me as the iOS system.
Believe me, hardly after around six months I received a Smart-Phone from my son which was an iPhone-6, a similar one that I had lost in Gaya. Once I was gifted that iPhone-I simply kept the Samsung Mobile for WhatsApp and other works and kept the new iPhone light in functioning as well. Now I started carrying two Mobiles and slowly and steadily I kept at least one at home, as it was very difficult to keep both in the pockets. Finally, you could very well guess which one I kept it at home. Yes, the poor Samsung is still at home and I am hardly doing any work with that.
Immediately after I got retired, I decided I would use the Mobile the minimum possible and the number of calls to be made would automatically get reduced. Believe me, that was just a wrong feeling on my part since I feel more handicapped without my mobile nowadays rather than comparing with those days. Immediately after retirement, when I went with my whole family to Europe, I ensured I had with me my Mobile and the connection in it was international roaming already done so that I did not find any problem. Without this, I sometimes feel that I am carrying myself half prepared and with less confidence. Even if it does not serve any significant purpose still, I feel I am just a call away from any sort of help which I may deem proper to seek- god forbid in case of any eventuality if at all met.
So much so that in the morning when I have to go for a walk which is just around my house only I make it a point that I have my Mobile with me in the pocket or in my hand. Is it a vice or a bad habit-I cannot decide, but yes, I have this dependence on the same magical instrument-which is not less than a complete computer in the palm?
By the way, Standard iPhone-12 is round the corner and they say for the first time-5G has been added to the iPhone this year, of course, which means you’re future-proofed for next-gen connectivity. The ‘A14 Bionic processor’ is more powerful than you’re really going to need, while the improved dual-lens rear camera system can take spectacular photos in any kind of light. I will not purchase it since my budget would not permit me, but still what is the harm in highlighting the unique features of this wonderful instrument-since I am a die-hard fan of the iPhone any time?
Following is the astonishing data regarding the Smartphones-which may be an eye-opener for all of us: –
Did you know that the average person in the UK now spends an entire day every week on their phone?
As expected, there’s a big digital divide between generations. Just 1% of over 65s and 6% of 55–64-year-olds say that they spend over 50 hours a week online, whether that’s on their phone, computer, laptop, or tablet. This compares to 18% of people aged between 16 and 25 – the equivalent of over 1.1 million young people.
Polling 2,017 smartphone owners in the UK, Mobiles.co.uk found that 27% hadn’t made a phone call in more than a week, and 5% admitted to never making or accepting a call. Over six in ten (63%) respondents said they’d only answer the phone if they know the caller, and a third said they’d always reject a call if they weren’t expecting it.
- Texting (88% use this)
- Email (70%)
- Facebook (62%)
- Camera (61%)
- Reading news (58%)
- Online shopping (56%)
- Checking the weather (54%)
- WhatsApp (51%)
- Banking (45%)
- Watching videos on YouTube (42%)
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