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I’m not much of a phone person. I usually buy a new phone when the old one is lost, melted or has drowned, and it is as a rule, the same model unless it is out of production. My pati dev on the other hand is a phone freak or otherwise known as Man (the gender not the species). He recently bought a new phone (for legal reasons lets be satisfied with calling it the fruity one but not the kind that keeps the doctor away). Before buying the phone he spent a good amount of time convincing me about how the phone would transform his everyday life. I think it was more to kill his guilt than anything to do with me.

He spent several hours researching the phone, hours more pondering about how he would look with it, and a few more dreaming about his ‘precious’ in a Lord of the Rings manner. So, it takes a precious little imagination, to visualise his agony when he dropped that very phone from the third floor a week later.

Ever since that episode the phone has become his nemesis. Not that the phone is doing anything to help the cause. The thing has stopped charging and seems to be dying a natural death after five months.

Now the point of this whole story is the way the phone has altered our being. I didn’t have a phone till I started working, and that was around 2003. In less than a decade the phone has become the biggest ‘must have’. These days I see kids with a milk bottle in one hand and a mobile phone in the other. Phones are getting smaller and better with every passing day. Your new, hip phone today is a fossil tomorrow.

So what is the future of the phone? Will it one day become a chip embedded in every new born’s skull? Will a sneeze become a message alert and will pulling your ear lobe become answering a call? Exaggeration aside, I do wonder what the Apples and Berries of the phone world will come up with by the end of this decade.

Do contribute and let me know your thoughts about this, if you read this post.