Ive always been a Sony fan boy. I used to like it simply because their designs were awesome, I loved their sound quality and most importantly I loved the sony image and video quality. Sony image sensors are still considered to be some of the best in the market.
I started my mobile phone journey with the
Sony Ericsson T610. It was nice and small, it had a color display and a joy stick. It looked sleek and for that time, with a 1.3 mega pixel camera, it took stellar pictures provided the lighting was right.
It had many inherent problems. The charging port was just pathetic. The design of the connector was so bad that it had to be kept at an angle so that it would continue charging. The joystick though quite good had a lot of problems. It used to get stuck, it didnt function as well and worst of all, it had very limited memory because of which I couldnt store many images at one time and neither could I have any music on it. Oh btw, it could only play .wav music format. I used it for 2 years and then being a fan boy, I moved on to another sony, the
W810.
The W810, will always remain my most favorite phone ever. Sadly, of all the things I love, cherished and safeguarded, this is the only phone I managed to loose and mind you, it wasnt from my hand. I lost it from my bag when I checked in my baggage into Indigo Airlines without locking the zips.
I believe this was one of the best phones that Sony made. It was called the walkman. It was the smallest and the most robust phone I ever owned. It was a major upgrade for me. It had an 8MP camera. Took incredible pics at super high resolution. It had incredible sound quality. The icing on the cake was that it came with these two tiny external speakers which were quite loud and the sound quality was also exceptional. This was also the first time that Sony came up with these in-ear earphones. They almost gave the effect of noise cancellation and I loved it.
The problem with most sony phones in this generation was their buttons. This one had a nice little dedicated camera button and after some time, it stopped functioning. The center joy stick, well it wasnt exactly a joystick. It was a circular button which helped to navigate in all four directions was also quite problematic. Eventually it stopped functioning and I had to go back to my T610 which is when I lost this phone.
So that was two sony phones in a span of about 5 years. I wasn't done with sony yet. I kept up my technical research all the time and in the process I found out about another stellar phone called the
C905.
In terms of design, I felt this was one of the best there was. It was a slide phone making it extremely compact. It had a small hump at the back indicating that it had a larger camera. The camera had a shutter which had to be slid down for the camera to be activated. It had a bigger screen and it looked plain sexy to say the least. It had a similar joy stick and a dedicated camera and great sound and all the typical sony jazz. I was in love with this phone and took utmost care of it.
But sony let me down yet again with a ton of problems. The camera refused to turn on when I slid down the camera shutter. The slide action had its own problems. The screen stopped turning on when I slid the top part(expected functionality), the charging port was pathetic. Loose contact always and a few other niggling problems which were enough to annoy me to the core and make me want to finally move away from sony all together. I used this one for about a year only.
This was all the pre-smart phone era. After having used these three phones, it was finally time for me to enter the smart phone era. I started it off with the most famous phone that Samsung made, the
Galaxy S2. Believe it or not, I used this for a whopping 5 years. I still have it and I use it as my backup phone.
Ive never been more happy with a piece of technology as I was with the S2. It was relatively bigger and I used to have issues reaching all four corners of the screen with one hand. It had only an 8MP camera but it was good enough for me. It was my first smart phone and I just loved it. I mustve dropped it a million times but it never cracked and it never gave up on me.
It had very few problems. The only problem that I could think of was that it didnt have expandable memory. Over time the battery life reduced and sadly it didnt pick up even after changing the battery but it was good. I was attached to this phone and I was and still am not gonna let go of it.
After 5 years of using this, just out of boredom, I changed phone again. This time it was to a brand which wasnt that famous for cell phones. It was the
LG G3.
The
USP for me in this phone was the extremely sleek design. The incredibly large screen and most importantly the camera shutter button and the volume rocker being at the back of the phone. This was revolutionary. The camera was great. It had these amazing gesture controls. We had to make a fist in front of the cam to make it click a selfie. The battery life was great and over all it was a great phone.
I didn't find any major problems with it and would've continued to use this if only it didn't give up on me one fine day. I dont know what happened but the phone just died on me one day and just wouldn't turn on no matter what I did. I eventually had to fall back to my trusted old Samsung Galaxy S2.
Technology had eventually caught up and I couldnt go on with the slow S2 any longer. I needed a fast and reliable phone which was packed with features. I shouldve and wouldve gone for an apple but once you are an android user, you will always be an android user and so the hunt was on for another new phone. A replacement for the LG G3. After months and months of research, I zeroed in on the
One Plus 3 and thats my current phone. It is the fastest and the most no-nonsense phone Ive had so far. Its been 2 years and counting and I do not have any plans to change it yet. One plus came up with the 3T, 5, 5T and now the 6 and 6T are coming up but Im quite happy with my One plus 3 right now.
The service networks is quite good and most importantly the dash charging and the battery life are just incredible. In this day and age where the usual causes of frustrations are technology breakdowns, I am quite happy and peaceful with my OP3. I only have to charge it for an hour or two in the morning and most importantly I do not need to carry my charger or an external charger.
I'll write a more indepth long term review of it soon.
I hope you enjoyed reading my cell phone journey so far. Stay tuned for more stories soon.
We as the kids from late 80's and 90's have seen technology evolve. We've been through all the aforementioned phases and have now come to a stage where we use mobile technology like its meant to be. We look for directions, google for stuff, make online payments, book cabs and movie tickets, use mobile wallets and do so many other things which these phone were actually made for. It is our parents who are relatively new to jump into this band wagon who have become bigger addicts. They suddenly have access to so much information that its hard for them to stay away. We no get more forwards from parents in "family groups" than from friends.
We as the kids from late 80's and 90's have seen technology evolve. We've been through all the aforementioned phases and have now come to a stage where we use mobile technology like its meant to be. We look for directions, google for stuff, make online payments, book cabs and movie tickets, use mobile wallets and do so many other things which these phone were actually made for. It is our parents who are relatively new to jump into this band wagon who have become bigger addicts. They suddenly have access to so much information that its hard for them to stay away. We no get more forwards from parents in "family groups" than from friends.
