My New Year’s Resolutions:
[ Note : There are pages of these, so I’m only mentioning those related to Mouthshut, as well as the evergreen last resolution]
1. Don’t increase the bulk of the site by writing reviews on old products – like old movies almost everyone have probably watched, old discs probably everyone owns or have decided not to own ages ago, old books …. yada yada yada.
Don’t torture your fellow MSians by forcing them to go through your headache-inducing, stroke-producing, nausea-encouraging corny humour, your already-intolerable reviews can well do without that.
Don’t give advices because who’re you to give them? Tell me what good thing you’ve done till date to advice people on that.
Don’t write epic reviews for the same reason as resolution no. 1.
Contribute frequently (just as Lyla had suggested in her review on the 5 Worst Reviewers) and find subjects to contribute, not just plain trash.
Don’t degrade other people’s writing styles by attempting to adopt them, just because you don’t have your own.
And last but not the least (since this is the only resolution I really take the pains of keeping, year after year):
Don’t keep any of your other New Year’s Resolutions.
So you’re still with me? Bless your poor, starved soul, dear MSian (and non-MSian). You won’t have to suffer this for long (for after reading the next few lines, you’ll notice inside yourself an involuntary urge to flee).
Alright, so here we present the review for a cell phone model released almost 2 years ago, and on which you’ll already find 13 other much much much more effective reviews on MS. So why read this one? Because, this is written by a moron who had never used a cell before last fall. Also because you have nothing better to do and have lots of bucks to spend on your internet bill.
Still not feeling that urge? Weird! These guys look like they’ll make me be serious even if I don’t want to….
OK so last fall my dad finally realized that his moronish elder kid was grown up enough to have a cell of her own (actually, so that he can keep a 24 hr vigilance on her). Off went dad and kid to the local cell dealer, with a budget hovering around Rs. 6000, and 5 hours and 5 + x models later – returned home armed with a 3610. And they lived happily ever after….. so the story went. Hey but not quite!
So why did I choose this model?
The ideal answer will be, because my dad was in the choosing process with me.
Ok seriously, I didn’t want the bulky 3310 or 3315 most of my friends were already carrying (and which reminded me of the blackboard duster at school) and hated the pricier 2100 (which reminded me of my TV remote, if nothing else). I would’ve liked not-so-popular new models of Samsung, Alkatel or LG but not-so-pops never find so much following with pops anyway. Cheaper models of Motorola don’t come with WAP, and their latest C20 was still in the not-so-pop list.
What’s the only remaining one?
Its Features
I read a few reviews on this model before staring out on this, and most of them describe this phone as cool and even sexy, but somehow to me it looks very dull. Maybe just the way-too-sophisticated silver cover doesn’t go down well with me. Must consider changing it.
3610 has also got this very brilliant white backlight along with the facility for rhythming backlight with the ringtone, even brighter than the green-eyed envy of my friends when they see this one.
Then there are other features worth mention too, although they mean little or nothing to me. There are 6 in-built games (am yet not an avid mobile-gamer, and with the plethora of addictions I already have I could well do without another one), facility of messaging in our very own desi Hindi along with Hindi letters on the keypad too (means even less to me since I only understand and speak Hindi, comes to reading and writing you could as well give me Hebrew). There’s a Picture Editor which I haven’t yet figured out how to use.
Then, there’s also this wonderful buzzing sound which when put on in the Silent mode is enough to make your Physics teacher jump out of his skin at any given time, even when the cell is kept secure inside a pile of books inside your schoolbag.
There’s this accessory called charger you need to use every one-and-a-half days, even if all you do with the cell is to receive calls and read and receive messages (what else to expect from a Rs 300 a month prepaid connection?). But don’t worry, it comes free with the phone and only influences your electricity bill, and does that positively too.
Conclusion
So buy this phone or not? Buy it if you want a not-so-cool-looking-but-very-effective cell on a chappal-feeta (‘shoestring’ for the uninitiated and the Occidental) budget. Buy this if you want something your friends would admire more than you do.
And tell ya what? There are already four or five C20s on campus by now, but only one 3610. Many people know about it but so what as long as only one owns! Should admit am proud about it, after all.
Aftermath
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