“The speed is slow
The video just won’t show!
Don’t be sad give a smile
Don’t stand be mobile!”
One of my senior had a phone in the year 2002!
It was the Nokia communicator! That was a beast!
Weighed a kilo and the way he used to take it out and open the keyboard it was like watching a sci fi movie!
Of course at that time it was only a phone which was mobile!
Since there was no net!
Many times you need the tech to catch up!
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Many times there is a competition between the Hardware and the software. Sometimes you already have the hardware ready but the software takes time to catch up!
While sometimes you have the software ready but the hardware still not there yet!
The Nokia communicator of 2002 had all the hardware but without a good high speed connection or even a WIFI it could not deliver what it meant to do!
Most phone at that time simply craved for more data and speed! Internet was in the G mode and out of question for mobiles!
We all used to pay money for hour or half and crowd the mushrooming ‘browsing’ centers! But for medical students like us, after checking mail and a couple of website; there was nothing to do! We could look at some medical articles or news but then even those sites took ages to load!
And most of the sites would be full of multimedia stuff which would take up all the bandwidth and slow down the load!
To surf the web using a phone was a distant dream for years!
Then came the ipods with the wifi! And other phones with wifi could latch on to our home internet and give amazing surfing experience!
When 2G came; it was like a new thing for phones! When my kids cry for the 15 second ad break in the middle of the youtube video in high definition, all I can do and laugh!
I have booked a railway ticket with the phone using the 2g! My ticket was in waiting list and the way I used to check whether it has got confirmed or not was really the reason behind my patience!
When later I upgraded to Nokia N97 which was a beast like the old communicator, it was 3G ready and had an amazing wifi! The first time I used to see youtube videos without buffering! Of course at that time the data limit was about 1 GB per month and not cheap!
Now with the unlimited speed and data; we spend that much or more in half a day or less!
The transition between 4g and 5g was not very significant since by that time the speed was good and you hardly felt any difference!
The other day I was downloading a book of around 3GB and when it showed time of download to be around ten minutes I was shocked! Then later I realised that in the days of the torrent downloads; we used to keep the downloads overnight for a file which was less than 100MB!
Oh how we take the speed for granted now!
Now why I bought the communicator in question was because the the first access to the mobile web was commercially offered in Finland at the end of 1996 on the Nokia 9000 Communicator phone via the Sonera and Radiolinja networks! The senior had a historical phone! But no access to the net!
Oh the things it could have done if there was internet! Are the things which even the most basic phone of today can do!
The first commercial launch of a mobile-specific browser-based web service was in 1999 in Japan when i-mode was launched by NTT DoCoMo!
Although the first wireless Internet access became available in 1991 as part of the second generation (2G) of mobile phone technology. Higher speeds became available in 2001 and 2006 as part of the third (3G) and fourth (4G) generations. Still it was unfogettable! Unforgettable and of a great generation of freedom fighter also was Khudiram Bose!
A sketch done with more shading and use of electric eraser!
His eyes are so haunting! I felt they were looking into my soul…
Now keep the super fast phone down and sleep!
Shubh Ratri!
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