Smartphone's – Niche Luxury or Phone?

Smartphone market is a unique market and full of mystery. In the last 4-5 months we have seen some of the biggest models (Samsung S3, iPhone 4S, Sony Xperia S and Xperia U, Nokia Lumina, Blackberry with OS 7) coming to the market which will possible change the history, loads of reviews from different cell Guru’s and concepts such as Humanization of cell phone technology.

There are so many brands which are pouring into market on almost weekly basis offering very much same standard set of features. Billions of mobiles are getting sold based on those features and recommendations given by tech guru’s.

I have seen many discussions wherein we look for an answer of which mobile to buy? Which is best? etc and have collected few points which MIGHT which as per our self acclaimed cell Guru’s, Company Articles, Reviews etc are worth to have:

1) Screen Size – I personally believe that it doesn’t matter what size of your screen is. All matter is what Pixel per inch is. Anything above 3.5” will suffice the need of creating presentations, emailing etc.

2) Weight – Sleekest and Lightest is always in demand.

3) Processors – Better processor leads to better experience of using internet, applications in addition of smoothness of overall phone.

4) Camera – Worth having decent camera which can let you take HD quality images

5) Battery Life – Big thing, anything above 1800 mAH will make your day easy.

All above features make perfect Smartphone BUT Million dollar question is despite of all these super features – Do we get a phone? which meant for connecting others over voice? Does today’s mobile sets provide superb call quality? 

To find the answer of above questions, I spoke to many dealers, company outlets, Guru’s etc but no one responded to that. Per them I can get many features which can make life easy – but call Quality --  Umm No Idea!!

I cannot disagree that these Smartphone's are equipped with some of the cool features which make sense and make life easy. This is one technology which always go beyond traditions and surprise us by making our day to day life easy and left us wondering do we really need to depend of laptops or desktops anymore? But at the end of the day – question remain unanswered – Can I hear you?? Hello…Hello….!!

Kasauli Trip

After a long working week – we few friends have decided to visit Kasauli – near Chandigargh via Road. We thought to make it unplanned trip and didn’t booked any hotel or resort. It’s a nice place covered with hills and few good places to move including sunrise point, Manki point etc.

We started for trip on Friday night around 2 AM after office, fully loaded with excitement and usual stock of Food, Vodka, Gold Rum etc in a safari. Journey was supposedly of 6-7 hours but it took around 10 hours for us to reach – not because of traffic, because of fun we had on the way.

We reached there in the morning and after some struggle we were able to find us the roof. Hotel was not that good, but due to limited options and budget we decided to stay there. It was kind of dormitory wherein we 6 member stayed.

Note – we haven't slept so far – not even in the journey but we are still feeling energetic and on top of the world.  The moment we reached hotel, few guys went to sleep immediately except 2-3 guys. Those awake were making sure that they have loads of fun - after all we didn’t went to sleep there. We completed our stock, went out on hills, clicked photographs etc and had some local food. There was no night on that day, we all continued having good time till Sunday morning – non stop. 

In the mean time we decided to play a prank with one of our colleague in Delhi and started calling him to share worst PJ’s and then we also asked all our office team members (in Delhi) to start calling him at night. Now that was funny part – he was in his home town and on roaming and suddenly all seniors, juniors started calling him to ask how he is doing. It was really funny and he was totally confused on what happened.

Sunday, we decided to go out for sight seeing and went to few places including sunrise point and Manki point (religious place) which is under Air force security. Manki point was a good place, though we end up walking more then 6-7 kms out of which almost 2-3 Kms was trekking.

Overall it was an awesome trip, which allowed us to unwind a little. It got nice weather with good crowd. I’d recommend this place for one time visit that too for not more than 2 days stay. It lacks quality hotels and food.