Apple recently launched iPhone 8 and X along with some variants and accessories. No I am not going to review them.
The next day of launch, I went for a cup of tea in a Corporate tapri (small tea shop) near my hunky dory office, with two of my colleagues.
"So new iPhone has launched huh" I said. Soon enough both the folks were all gaga about the features of the phone they hoped to lay their hands soon (Mind you, they can afford it, and I am not building to a kidney joke ).
The next day of launch, I went for a cup of tea in a Corporate tapri (small tea shop) near my hunky dory office, with two of my colleagues.
"So new iPhone has launched huh" I said. Soon enough both the folks were all gaga about the features of the phone they hoped to lay their hands soon (Mind you, they can afford it, and I am not building to a kidney joke ).
One of the guy was 'kind' enough to mention about the series of iPhones he had in his home, right from 3 to 7, and soon enough he might have 8/X. There were some excited voices and I could hear, retina something,video, photo, dual camera, bezel something, etc etc wtf. .
Discussion ended and we left towards office building.
When the guys were a bit ahead, I non chalantly took my cheap (6K Rupees, yeah that's right) Redmi 1S out of my pocket and stared at it. "I should at least get the broken cover replaced", I thought. But the second moment I knew how futile it would be. Just like the last one, Vaanya will crack this up in a day or two. My wife had recently tried to 'gift' me the latest Nokia 6 phone and I had pretty ruthlessly made her return that. In my entire career span of 9 point something years I have barely purchased 3 phones.
Discussion ended and we left towards office building.
When the guys were a bit ahead, I non chalantly took my cheap (6K Rupees, yeah that's right) Redmi 1S out of my pocket and stared at it. "I should at least get the broken cover replaced", I thought. But the second moment I knew how futile it would be. Just like the last one, Vaanya will crack this up in a day or two. My wife had recently tried to 'gift' me the latest Nokia 6 phone and I had pretty ruthlessly made her return that. In my entire career span of 9 point something years I have barely purchased 3 phones.
When it comes to phones I am not driven by what's the latest, instead, I focus on what I need, or shall we say, what's the minimum I can expect, and can afford. An i-phone doesn't fit the bill. Young people might find difficult to grasp what I said..
That's it actually.. Not much going apart from this..
P.S: Above post was written way before it was published. I did get a new phone day before yesterday. Needless to say it is cheap, but does the job..
