This post here was particularly inspired by my brother http://www.dajico.com. We had a discussion about how new products come out almost every time in different categories ranging from PCs to E-readers, to Smartphones, digital cameras, etc and consumers are always ‘forced’ to make a choice. The illustration in this article was done by a very good and creative friend of mine: Dapọ Ọlaọpa; (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dpencilpusher)
(http://twitter.com/dpencilpusher) I assume a lot of people have a few bucks to spare that’s why they can afford to buy any little piece of gizmo they see on TV during a commercial break or a flash ad on a webpage while checking e-mail. Truth is, in the world of technology, everything moves fast. Innovation is like a whirlwind. Today the Palm Pre comes out and tomorrow, the Nexus One kicks in. Embedded systems improve at a rapid pace like clockwork. And if you are by any chance an enthusiast or gadget freak like me, you are tempted to buy every! But really, do you need every? If you don’t know what you want in your next mobile device, you just might end up buying a variety and then junking them before the month runs out. Many of these devices do pretty much the same thing but in different ways. The iPhone is a really cool iPod that can make calls, the Blackberry is a Smartphone that makes communication easy and also makes everybody ask you the winning question in the question of the year award 2009: “What’s your BB-Pin?”. 
At the end of the day, you find out you have a host of gadgets (devices) and you don’t know which one to take out with you exactly. You’re seated checking e-mail on your netbook, looking up YouTube on your personal computer, receiving a call on your iPhone and reading a book on your nook [or Kindle ]. Even though you can do pretty much all these things on one device e.g. the iPhone, people will still go all the way out to buy multiple devices and get confused soon enough. And thanks to the introduction of the iPad, there’s a lot of spending anticipated in April – during its release – and thereafter. So when selecting mobile devices, it is advisable to look out for what suits your current lifestyle the most. In the near future, there could be an article on how to select the right Smartphone/mobile device. In the mean time, you can keep enjoying what you have already. 🙂 Thanks for reading 🙂
