My Mobile (Part 1)

June 19, 2011 / Kannan / 0 Comments

Mobile’s presence in India started somewhere in 1990’s and my first mobile was Panasonic GD 95.

I started my own website and got my personal mail somewhere in 2003. From that time onwards I was looking at accessing my email more frequently and staying in touch with my friends through IMs.

So my next mobile was Sony Ericsson’s P990i. It was my perfect mobile with large touch screen, physical keypad and a jog wheel.


Picture copyright: GSM Arena & Mobil Mania

Then my needs increases towards better procesing capability, native push email, mobile applications. During 2007-2008 the stable mobile operating system was Windows Mobile and Microsoft launched Windows Mobile 6.1.

So my next mobile was HTC Touch Diamond. It was a radical looking mobile and first mobile from HTC which switched it’s business from OEM to it’s own mobile business.

It served my for 3.5 years before it’s battery started giving up and sourcing battery even from other countries was difficult. So then came the need again for a mobile device.

This time the confusion started for choosting a mobile or a table. By this year, Apple, Samsung and many more companies are doing good in tablets as well as mobile. Also my needs changed a lot and I was very particular about the following aspects.

1. Better connectivity
2. OS with customization
3. Stable OS
4. Larger Screen
5. Support for gaming
6. Future compatible
7. Good looking
8. Video Conferencing
9. Compatibility when roaming around the world.

So I was planning to go for a iOS based device or Android and somehow I didn’t like Windows Phone’s Metro UI.

After some analysis, I decided it can’t be iPhone as the OS was severly restricted in terms of customization and screen size was ok.

So I decided to think about Android. Previously I was duabooting my HTC’s Touch Diamond with Android Fryo. Thanks to XDA Devs. With more apps and prices of apps ranging between 30 bucks to an average of 100 bucks I felt this was ok. But which handset or tablet to choose?.

I was planning to go for Tablet and did some researching. Thanks to local shops like Poorvika, I was able to check out Samsung Galaxy Tab, HTC Touch HD, Samsung Galaxy S & Samsung Galaxy SL.

Initially I felt Tab was heavy, but screen was upto my mark. But then I realized, tablets are restricted in my office environment. Still I was planning to go for tablet. Thanks to my friend who bought iPad 2. It too was heavy and roamng around with it was difficult until unless you have a back pack.

More over dual core was becoming popular. So I thought Galaxy Tab is not going to be future compatible and iPad 2 with the same restrictions as iPhone 4 and usless front cam and rear cam and a simple LCD, it too was out of my list.

So I decided I will settle on a 4+ inch devices. Mean while I was doing lot of research on the dual core processors, screen types, RAM, OS & bench marks. During my whole reaserch one mobile kept on coming on top and it was Samsung Galaxy S II.

Few years back I use to hate Samsung for it’s quality. But for couple of years, Samsung was doing good and it was getting in my list next to HTC.

Finally one day I came to know the Samsung has launched Galaxy S II in India and that too with an offer.

After couple of days of quick research I thought I would better settle in for Galaxy S II. Especially being a geek, I felt Galaxy S has more fans in custom ROM community.

With an offer, where I need to spend 2000 bucks instead 4500 bucks for accessories, I decided I will go for it.

Meanwhile my Touch Diamond’s back cover got damaged and was hard time keeping the battery within the phone. Every now and then it was falling of, especially during calls.

So I was getting a sign to get a mobile as soon as possible and with a business trip being planned out of India, I wanted a better mobile.

So I went to Samsung’s officially supported letsbuy.com’s offer and pre-booked the Samsung Galaxy S II.

More about my Samsung Galaxy S II in next post.