She wailed, ‘Technology is getting more and more insane. I feel I am being left behind.’ She repeated this sentence again and again but not one busy lunch-time office goer even paused to ask, ‘Is anything the matter? How can I help you?’ But just when this insanity of human apathy was climbing yet another inglorious notch, Supriya made her way through the crowd, smiled at the wailing lady and said, ‘I’m here now. Tell me what is bothering you.’
The wailing lady stared at her and then said, ‘I see everyone around me getting better and better with new technology. And here I am, still thinking, still deciding about what would suit my needs.’
‘That’s all?’
‘Yes, but this isn’t such a small thing. Technology keeps moving faster than my speed of understanding it… and now I am lost,’ said the wailing lady, and then added with a smile, ‘I’m Manjiri., and I too want to be incredible!’
‘You already are incredible,’ replied Supriya, ‘but let us talk and discover what it is that will make you more incredible. So what sort of technology are you talking about?’
The two ambled to a nearby coffee house and once their coffees were ordered, Manjiri leaned back and began, ‘Even my grandson goes around with a tablet, but when I tried to handle it I found it too big for me. And then why must I burden myself with a tablet as well as a phone? I think less is always more charming.’
‘You’re right,’ said Supriya, ‘but a tablet has a lot of advantages and…’
Manjiri spoke even before Supriya could complete her sentence, ‘I know that. I love to watch movies on it and listen to songs. But now I want a tablet of my own as I too want to send messages on Whatsapp. I too want to use ChatON. I too want to click pictures wherever I go and then share them. I too want to be on Facebook and twitter. But I simply find the small screen of my phone too difficult to handle.’
It was at this point that Supriya took out her ASUS Fonepad 7 and showed it to her, saying, ‘This is my tablet and my phone. With this around I never feel alone.’
Manjiri handled the Fonepad and soon it was obvious that she could learn fast. Manjiri then told her that the Fonepad 7 was a 7” tab with a 3G phone. A dual sim made it so attractive for those who need two sims… Manjiri nodded her head excitedly and said, ‘I often go and stay with another son in a different State… and so a dual sim is exactly what I was looking for.’
Supriya then added that the Fonepad 7 came with an Intel Atom Z2520 1.2GHz Dual Core Processor for lightning-fast web and application loading. ‘And you can choose the stylish gray that I have or a charming white!’ gushed Supriya, ‘and look here, you can see the screen clearly even from where you sit.’ She told her new friend that this tab had a 1280×800 HD IPS display with an incredible 178-degree viewing angle.
‘What about the camera?’
‘Aha! this 7 inch wonder has a camera that also has a 100-shot burst mode, and you can edit and organize all of the photos with the fluid Studio application that comes with it,’ said Supriya.
They were soon going through the specifications very closely and found that they loved the battery life of this tab which would give them 30 hours of 3G talk and 10 hours of continuous video playback. The 64 GB micro SD card add-on was a charm as they didn’t want to keep pushing their pictures in some laptop at home. They also loved when they read: ‘Floating App lets you instantly switch between apps without having to close the previous one. Intel Atom CPUs with HyperThreading Technology for quad-threaded performance, giving you more processing power to run multiple apps simultaneously.’
‘This must be expensive,’ asked Manjiri. Supriya wasn’t aware of the price so they decided to walk to the nearest multi-brand retail store and discovered that the cost was a reasonable Rs 12,999/-.
Our two brilliant ladies in this story had browsed the net on a Fonepad 7 to find out the details of the Fonepad 7… and this is something even you can do: http://www.asus.com/in/
Manjiri chirped happily, ‘Meeting you was incredibly lucky for me. And now you have introduced me to this incredible tab here. I searched for the incredible and I found it through you. Thank you, my friend.’
Supriya just said, ‘Your interaction with the incredible has only just begun!’
Article published in ‘The Education Post’ dated 21 April 2014…
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Arvind Passey
21 April 2014
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