Phone-atic

Five or six years back, it was easy to remember the phones available with their respective model numbers. Then it kept piling on. And I fell behind.

Nokia 3310, 3330, 6600, 2100 and 1100 are all I remember off the top of my head. Okay, maybe a couple of N series phones too. And that dirty N-Gage one - what the hell was that? A block of plastic really.

Today there are hundreds of phones around. Forget Nokia - the Sonys,Siemens,LGs,Motorolas Samsungs of the world had jammed our brains with C31, E51, CS45 and what not. Whacked. Lifestyle segment models have been christened with slightly better names like Xperia, Omnia and the like. It's definitely easier remembering those names than ones with number tags.

I happened to hit GSMarena.com today. I have come by it before, just that I never took much interest in it. Somewhere in the past 4 years, I got put off by the unearthly swarm of handheld objects that hoarded store shelves across cities. One particular piece caught my attention & I explored the webpage which had all the intricate details of the phone. You could compare it, rate it, see user reviews, monitor the peripheral services you could avail in it and well, practically eat your heart out absorbing the enlisted information. How much power can we wield with all sorts of information. And the Web is oozing of it.

This is what they call the information age. Speaking virtually, of course.