Its been exactly a year since I bought my cell… The weird thing is I wanted to make this post about my cellphone and decided to link it to my post where I bought it and guess what was the date on the post “1 Sep 2005”.
Anyway back to the main story… Lately I hv been having the feeling that I hardly ever use my cell as a phone at all. The top 3 things I use it for right now is:
1. Radio (at least 90min on a weekday + anytime I spend travelling)
2. Camera (Even this has reduced considerably)
3. Alarm/Torch (Alarm every single day of the week and torch now and then.)
What about making and receiving calls… Get this I spend approx 3 min per day making and receiving calls. That statistic is not exaggerated… I have gone whole days without listening to my ringtone or anyones callertune. The SMS part is not good either. I receive at least 1 sms a day (thanks to the diligent ppl who send me Good Morning messages :) ). I use very rarely and on occasions when I do start a conversation its about 5-10 sms and that happens like once a week.
My current postpaid connection gives me 10 hrs of Hutch to Hutch(Indian Cellphone service provider) and last month I used 200 min of the 600 and this month it will be close to 100 or lesser. I pick up my bill each time and wonder how I’m getting more than the minimum and its usually to pay for services like Roaming which I use only for a day or two and it charges for the entire month, since I can use it even if my cellphone gets broke since I found cell phone repair ads to find the best services for this.
I’m seriously rethinking my requirements… I want to switch to one of those offers for 1/2 years of incoming free etc coz the main reason for the cell was to be reachable when required(and thanks to it I hv been reachable in important occasions). I hope it does not require me to change my number coz that is a really painful affair to go thru.