3G, 4G all kinds of confusion. Has your life become easy after this piece of technology has come into your life ?
Is this really an indispensible part of our life now? ?
I think it has become indispensible and helpful in a lot of ways. I recently got a new handset. With all usual numbers on the old phone, I havent been able to transfer them to the new phone. So I end up carrying both phones...to look up and call !! In all I have to carry 3 phones including my UK mobile calls which land up in India. You are able to text message on your mobile, receive and send emails. I wake up at least 4 times in the middle of the night to check my emails on the phone !! The worst of the bad news' has been received on my Samsung D 600 in the last 2 years :)) Mobiles have replaced the digital diary, partially replaced Lap Tops, Wake up alarms, Cameras, pen torches..:)
The other day, I was to stay overnight at an aunt's place, but decided against it -- she didnt have a broadband connection !! I would feel lost without access to my emails!! With my new phone, I didnt know how to hook GPRS through Blue Tooth and get connected on my Lap Top.....For the moment, I am intentionally staying away from Blackberry and the kind.
Isnt it the same with our laptop/internet life ?. Earlier people used to wake up and go for the newspaper. I wake up and switch my laptop on. (to dowload all the requests to purchase cialis, viagra and to increase the size of my brain:-))
The world has shrunk, communication has become faster because of technology. But I do feel, it has made our lives better and a little worse.
But what I am trying to say is that we need to schedule time we spend on responding/creating emails. Times we are available on our handset. Just to ensure that we do not get burnt out by this piece of technology which may have brought in efficiencies, flattened the world, enabled countries like Ghana, Philipines and India become the Back office of the Western World.
Phew ! For the first time in years, I am going to be offline for a week from Saturday.. goa.........:))) I couldnt care less for my emails !
Beware, lets not burn ourselves out.
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Hi guys, I got into London last Sunday, Lost my phone and through severe agony for I had to write emails to people I wanted to get in touch. I finally settled for a PDA which I find extremely difficult to use with my fat fingers. It works on windows and hangs at times. But interestingly it has a SatNav, it connects onto WiFi hotspots letting me check my emails every now and then without having to carry the laptop on my shoulder on the city commute. Unlike India, I dont have the luxury of a car and chauffeur here to carry my lap tops.
by: Rajesh Venugopal over 30 daysI believe any new gadget changes our life. Look at I-Pod, almost everyone has one nowadays. But when it comes to cellphones, yeah they had a pretty big impact on my life. Although I hardly every use my phone, I wouldn't dare leave my house without my cell. As a mother of two , my cell has become my lifeline. If there ever is an accident, the 1st number the school will call is my cell. So I don't have to be alarmed by my boss who first has to find me , then get me on a phone, calling back. Cellphone= timesaver=lifesaver On the flipside, some people asume because one has a cellphone that you have to be reachable at ALL HOURS. But thank god for the SILENT button on the phone [;)]
by: Vonny B. over 30 daysMobile phone has change my life more often than before. chage of life now is at every three months........ Thank you very much. God night
by: Amado Garcia over 30 daysBeeing offline for a whole week ? You are living so dangerously ! (joke, of course !)
by: didier le goff over 30 daystime and space is very important. I agree with you. Having said that, here I am, at 11.47 pm in the night after 4 drinks, checking my emails and blogs....:)) its addictive isnt it ?
by: Rajesh Venugopal over 30 daysI work in the Mobile Business and have done for 10 years and sure the impact of mobile on the world has been significant, and will continue to be so as it emerges as the only truly personal communications and media delivery technology unlike the TV and often the PC which are shared at home. However that being said as you illustrate usability is a key issue for most people to the extent that even in developed countries the vast majority of usage is Voice and Text with only a few venturing into MMS (Picture Messaging) Video telephony and other services such as IM, VOIP etc. The focus in the industry has to be usability, and the focus of the operators has to be on offering data access on a flat rate basis. With these two things done well the Mobile has the potential to become a truly personal communications and media tool. All that being said you are probably too young to remember the world before mobile and to some extent the values of personal meetings and more considered communications have been lost with this form of instant communication. I for one never never even switch on my mobile at the weekend to give me time to think and space to engage with the non instantaneous world we live in. Try living without your mobile for a few days , try it with your TV and your PC as well, go for a walk in the woods or on the beach, you will then realise the true value and balance in life
by: Planeteer .co.uk over 30 daysaddicted to cell phone ? =) not at all.. most of the time my kids are using it but internet yeah first thing in the morning is to check mails and face book mesgz with one eye opened and a cup of tea lol..sometimes i miss old me who was all into just books and novels and enjoying real cute details in life..
by: H Chaudhary over 30 daysI agree. I think that mobile did not change in better our life. Is it a necessary thing that we must have? Perhaps yes, today that everybody has it... I stayed some week without it, and i felt its missing in my relations with family, friends, my girl and colleagues...I thought: I NEED A MOBILE! And so I ran to buy an other. But when it didn't exist life wasn't so hard, don't you believe? Maybe now it is easier to communicate, but i never listen to news telling about lives saved thanks to mobiles. In italy it is the symbol of a mafious manager's class, rich in money and poor in ideas, it is advertised by top model and mainstream clowns. some people make the dues to buy pones w/photovideocamera , radio, mp3, shower etc. etc. and they don't reach the last week of the month. Meditate
by: DIEGO PACIELLO over 30 daysWant to post a comment? Sign-up or login now.