I’d been wanting a new mobile phone for over 2 years - a ‘Smartphone’
what they call, to replace my Nokia N72 which was literally ageing in my hands.
Which one, depended on various factors like the utility, the brand, the price,
the looks, the features and all that. Each salesman outsold the other on their
favourite or recommended brand / model that only did me more confused.
The main purpose - apart from making/receiving calls of
course, was to be able to access my mails, review creatives and give my
feedback and such else, on the move. After several rounds of web search, much
deliberation – between iPhone, Blackberry, Samsung SIII/SII…
I settled on a Samsung Galaxy Note (though the price pinched my heart and burnt a hole in my pocket – it was time I had one or so I consoled myself!), because I thought it was like a small tab-cum-big mobile so I didn’t have to carry 2 devices but enjoy the benefits of both!
I settled on a Samsung Galaxy Note (though the price pinched my heart and burnt a hole in my pocket – it was time I had one or so I consoled myself!), because I thought it was like a small tab-cum-big mobile so I didn’t have to carry 2 devices but enjoy the benefits of both!
I was excited like a little girl holding on to cotton candy
or a bunch of balloons. Exploring the magic of touch, the speed of internet,
angry birds and all those fun android games and apps, mobile TV, driving
directions with voice, clarity of photos shot, da da da…and hours whizzed by like seconds. That was
less than a month ago.
Yesterday, I wish it was just a nightmare…something dreadful
happened! I was working at my desk. The headphone was plugged to my Note. Some
visitor walked in. I got up to join him. Just remembered I’d left my phone
behind. Got hold of the phone. Felt a bit of a tug on the other side. Headphone
cord was stuck somewhere. Before I could do anything else, the Note was out of
its Flip Cover and face down on the Desk. The N72 had seen worse falls, from
greater heights, so I casually picked it up and tried to tap it to life. And what
do I see?
My head went numb. I was just gaping at the Note for what
seemed like eternity. Took me a while to get to my senses. A quarter of the
screen was lit with a cacophony of colours, the rest of the screen was blank.
My heart was in my mouth. I switched off the Note, removed the battery, turned
it around, put it back in and tried to revive it back to life (save the
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation!). The same irregular quarter of screen with a
magenta-blue mix of colours / pixels. I thought I would faint. I wanted to cry
but I couldn’t. The world around me seemed to be spinning.
Then I noticed the crack (2 actually on the LCD screen, oh
no, not the screen, maybe it was the touch panel. I felt the crack in my heart.