Tasveer

My Smart phone is no longer as Smart as it used to be :(

So we’re all into the fancy new smart phones out in the market these days… I am one of them- blinded by the shine of that perfect chrome finish. Before you continue to read further or move on to another blog or Google + or Facebook, this is not another article reviewing the newest flagship phone from another bigshot company. This is an article about the pains that I’ve been suffering after using an Ex-Flagship phone for just about a year.

I am presently the pissed off owner of a Samsung Galaxy Note. Until January I was a proud owner of the same device, now it seems to not understand me.

I bought my fancy new Samsung’s flagship Note sometime in Feb last year, loved it! I spend so much time exploring the phone, I became the official Phone Guru at work (this was after I got a lecture from my lead to stop using my phone so much at work). After seeing its incomparable performance I started recommending Samsung devices to everyone! “get the Samsung Note”, “get the S2”, “get a Samsung phone” and people listened to me!

Sometime in July or August I got the OS upgrade. “whoopee! ICS on my Note!! Woohooo!!” in hindsight, I was so naïve… thinking that Samsung would have rolled out a stable ICS for the Note. I upgrade and BHAAMM went my battery life. The phone that lived with a strong beat for 2 days straight couldn’t last for 8 hours now. L  But I soldiered on, I did the best I could with my phone – stopped G+ ing too much, stopped whatsapping too much, no more videos, no music on those long metro rides, etc etc. It was a difficult time.

Then Samsung decided to make my life worse. They figured it was time to roll out a completely unacceptable version of JB for my beloved Note! And man, was I naïve or what. I credously thought, “Oh this has got to be an improvement. They wouldn’t want to loose out existing customers. Let me upgrade.” And so it happened, I upgraded my phone from ICS to JB. Oh why oh why did I do that! My phone needs to be rebooted at least 12 times in a single day (yes I’ve counted). On any good day, my phone doesn’t last for more than 4 hours; I have to leave it plugged in for charging all day at work. Starting up the phone uses upto 19% battery. Is that for real? Hell yeah! Making a call is a pain. Slide your finger across the contact and hold cross your fingers in hopes that the call will be made in the first go (it does not). Try opening an app and hold your breath, not literally coz you are likely to die to that scenario since the apps take that long to open. Try, just try taking a sceenshot, I dare you.

Ever since I’ve upgraded my phone last month I’ve had the worse experience with it. I am disheartened that Samsung did not bother testing the OS enough before releasing it. Thy conveniently give a disclaimer “we aren’t responsible for your phone’s performance after the upgrade”. Reality check Samsung- Yes you are responsible. If I am shelling out 35 grand for a stupid phone, it might as well last longer than a year, else you can rest assured I am not buying another device which has Samsung printed on it. Samsung’s blunder has ruined my experience as a customer, the buttery Jelly Bean feels like a crass stone in the Note.

My recommendation, Do Not buy Sumsung’s flagship phones, if you already own one, do not upgrade it, if you’ve already upgraded, well… restore Factory Settings mate.

If Samsung keeps ruining customer experience like this, I am sure Nokia has nothing to worry about.

Note to Nokia – don’t worry. Let Samsung bask in its temporary glory, because if it continues like this, Samsung will surely loose its existing customer base. It sure as hell has lost one.

Shake the Foundations of Our Society!

No, I do not think the perpetrators of Rape should be hanged, that would be the easy way out. I think they should be castrated and sentenced to 99 years of hard labour in Guantanamo Bay where even the most basic Human Rights are revoked for them. 

What kind of a society are we living in? Is this the country we want to leave for our future generations, where women have to stay in a constant fear? I don't think so. Ask me what's the solution for our society. The answer does not lie in more police patrolling, it does not lie in fast track courts, it does not even lie in protest marches. Why? Because Rape is happening every day, by a random man, a husband, a male relative, a male neighbour, and like all the rapes that have happened before, the gang rape of this 23 year old woman too will be forgotten. We will protest for 1 day, maybe a week... the police will become active for a month and we will see PCR vans crawling all over the national capital.... our highly revered politicians will display their oratory skills for 2 days and then all of this will be forgotten. What happens to this girl after 6 months will not make it to the newspapers and she will be just another rape victim for us. While her life will be scared forever.

The biggest problem and the cause of rape is the morals on which our society stands. A male child is always wanted... someone to carry the name forward. The man in the family has dictatorial control over the house... a boy can come home at 2 in the night but a girl has a zillion restrictions imposed by the family. Any man brought up in an atmosphere like this is likely to assume that women are to be treated as commodities... to be raped at Will and Whim.

Blaming the government for no action is pointless, blaming the police for not being on their toes is baseless. If you must blame someone then blame the foundations of our society. Blame the culture we so proudly call ours. Blame the mindset of the people. And blame every single man who does not respect the womb which gave birth to him.

Hanging these men does not even come close to the punishment they deserve for their crime. Every single rapist should be castrated in public and made to live every single day of his life in torture- mental and physical. Make them regret their actions with every breath and let their breaths not be numbered. And most importantly lets not forget the victim. Let this incident not be like every other rape which is forgotten in a week because we got bored of it. May Justice Prevail!

exams... but i m blogging

exams are always a stressful time... not just for me but for almost everyone... i see my friends around me slogging like there's no tomorrow but here i m, lying on my bed, all cozy cozy inside a super warm blanket, writing my first blog. what has come upon me???? i must be crazy. I M CRAZY!!!!!
the fact is that i m pretty bored with mugging constantly for the past 2 weeks and hence in an attempt to relax i m here... scolding myself every second and making my conscience heavy with guilt. lord have mercy!!!
however i think i should get back to my mugging.... my maiden blog is but only my first step into the realms of the blogging world.... so hopefully i might just take to writing in a big way (my writing skills are drying and dying with every second i spend in engineering, so might as well do something about it)...
adios blog... c ya soon...