I am very attached to my gadgets. They are extentions of me and it hurts a lot when they break or are stolen. My last lamenting post was when my first camera fell and crashed its lens to bits. I love taking pictures and yes it almost made me tear up when I saw my camera wasn't going to be fine again. I bought a new camera and blogged about it too.
This time though its more personal - My phone, my Samsung Galaxy Note 1 was stolen from my backpack while I was on the train station. Not sure when it happened but when i realised it was gone I was more than emotional. It was not just a phone, it was everything, it had everything about me, and I had lost all contact with the world. I felt violated. I hadn't lost it, that would be careless. It was taken from me and yes that made me cry. The cops were not helpful and they did not register the complaint when I went to them within the hour it happend. I felt weak and absolutely alone. I was on my way to work but I was too disturbed to do anything. After wiping away the tears I realised that first thing I had to change all the passwords to the apps on my phone. It was a Friday - 14th March 2014, a day before the Ides of March.
This time though its more personal - My phone, my Samsung Galaxy Note 1 was stolen from my backpack while I was on the train station. Not sure when it happened but when i realised it was gone I was more than emotional. It was not just a phone, it was everything, it had everything about me, and I had lost all contact with the world. I felt violated. I hadn't lost it, that would be careless. It was taken from me and yes that made me cry. The cops were not helpful and they did not register the complaint when I went to them within the hour it happend. I felt weak and absolutely alone. I was on my way to work but I was too disturbed to do anything. After wiping away the tears I realised that first thing I had to change all the passwords to the apps on my phone. It was a Friday - 14th March 2014, a day before the Ides of March.
Ever since I had bought the phone I had completely ignored my laptop and had even disconnected the internet connection since my phone did everything. I had to find a cybercafe. It was while searching fot a cybercafe I realised that there weren't so many around. The ones i had seen a few years ago had shut down. I guess its not just me. Everyone can access almost everything through even the simplest smartphones these days why would anyone go to cyber cafes? After looking and asking around for about 30 minutes I found one. Upon entering I saw that the equipment was ancient. The old fat monitors were still ok but the system had windows XP on it and it was running at snails pace. The browers were outdated and it was excruciating to wait for each page to load and get the password reset process completed for all the accounts. The entire process took me about an hour. I was late for work, there was a fun event planned and I was suppose to buy the gifts but this whole episode had put me off. I reached office and was feeling very disconnected. I had lost all my contacts. The only numbers I knew were that of my brother and my cousin. I called my brother and cousin informing them what happened and that I wouldn't be reachable for a few days. I was feeling sick and a little stupid. I had a smartphone and I wasn't very smart about the security I hadn't installed any security app to manage a situation like this. I never thought anyone would steal - take the the phone from my bag! Lesson learnt the hard way its very important to have a mobile security app, something that can track your phone and that can also erase all data remotely when stolen.
That weekend was spent in phone hunting. Its very confusing when you have to buy a new phone but don't want to spend as much as you did last time since there are many budget phones but then you also want quality that you are used to already. At last I ended up buying a Moto G recommended by a friend. This phone is not bad - its actually quiet good in its price range. Its got a 1GB RAM, 16 GM internal memory, dual SIM, Quad Core processor, perfect screen size that I was looking for and beautiful. :) I doesn't compare to the Samsung Galaxy Note1 but then I did buy a Moto G. Even though its not a Note its smart and sleek and this time I have the security option to wipe out data if (which I hope not) it gets stolen.
After losing the Note1 did not want to spend that much again on another phone. So I bought a phone that had a smaller screen so it fit in my pocket and still had almost all the necessary functions. And I got a missing phone complaint filed too - that was an achievement. I am yet to completely fall in love with my new Moto G.
Would I recommend my new phone? Yes, but if you do not want a big screen phone and within budget. My other option was the Micromax Canvas Turbo but the screen was as big as the Note and I wanted something that would fit in my pocket.
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| Samsung Galaxy Note1 |
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