Apple’s Steve Jobs changed my world the day he announced the iPhone. It was a dream come true. A smartphone that was so cool that you couldn’t resist getting your hands on, iPhone was a brilliant hand held device anyone could ever dream about. There were still some smartphones floating around and some of them were pretty neat too but Apple’s marketing sucked you right into buying the iPhone. So I bought my first smartphone, Apple’s iPhone, three months after it had launched. For an Indian buyer it wasn’t an easy job. I had to buy it on Ebay and then had someone known from US ship it over to me. It did make the iPhone a little more expensive for me but I never complained, who will?!
The day came when I had the iPhone in my hands. There was so much I could do with the iPhone, there was so much I discovered about the iPhone every single day, there was so much that didn’t make sense to me and then there was so much I didn’t even know my iPhone could do. I remember buying applications from the AppStore and using them on my iPhone. The world was so green. I could do so much, I’d flaunt my iPhone to my friends and showed off those shiny applications I bought from the AppStore. It was a perfect smartphone owner life I was living.
But as they say not everything is green. Apple was bent on launching better versions of iPhone. iPhone 3G came out, I didn’t bother myself since we didn’t really have 3G in India (we still don’t have it!) and then came iPhone 3GS. What followed was utter misery. iPhone’s prices were slashed and everyone had an iPhone now. No that wasn’t the bad part, the bad thing was I was feeling so empty inside, I wanted the new iPhone 3GS. Why do I have an iPhone that’s not as cool as the iPhone 3GS? Sad enough but that’s how smartphones work. You have one in your pocket and by the time you take it out a new one, probably 5x times better than yours, pops up in the market.
This brings me to a point where I ask myself, when should one really buy a smartphone? People say don’t buy it immediately when it’s launched, wait for a few months and reviews. You wait for some time and you buy it. Three-four months down the line and there’s a newer version. It’s such a heart breaker. If only they could come up with one cool device which of course could be updated with software in the future.
My first phone was a Nokia 3310 brick. It could make and receive calls, send and receive short messages and I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. Alone came the age of smartphones which could do a whole lot of awesome stuff normal feature phones could not. Smartphones are cool, smartphones are a necessity but it comes at a price. Either you can embrace yourself for the future versions of your smartphone or you can play God and upgrade your phone each time there’s a better version out.
As for me, I’m eyeing Motorola Droid and moving to Android for the good. Bye bye Apple!
Article by Zordy Chauhan
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