KreativeGeek

Portable Technology, Indian Scenario

I was reading an article in a magazine about usage of Internet gathering popularity on portable devices, yes that's true for sure in European countries, USA and south-east Asian countries like Japan and cities like Hong Kong, Singapore.

We are witnessing a flood of mobile handsets being launched every another day and I-phone 3G knocking on Indian shores, however the power of all such high-end devices is rendered useless in India due to never ending delay in the launch of 3G services and handsets with HSDPA technology also available in India, forget watching streaming TV in India at least for another 3 years.

Our so called 'Broadband' services are strangely priced and provided to consumers in India, the basic infrastructure is weak and above that there is a cap to bandwidth which hinders actual growth of Internet, I feel you tube and other video sharing sites have exciting content to offer but I just get let down by the 'streaming' and 'buffering' drama and never feel the fun of having an unlimited connection which drags on playing internet multimedia.

Mobile operators in India have weak customer support for users who want to use mobile internet technologies, since the handset list keeps growing; it becomes more complex for a lay man who has never used a computer to fiddle around with the settings on a high-end mobile device, though he may take all the pride of owning the latest gadget.

Also the data cards available in India today are just good for emailing and casual surfing, they cannot be used for downloads or multimedia browsing on internet, for me mobile internet is just a emergency backup and not a full fledged internet device for me, it's way too inconvenient to type a paragraph on your mobile, whether it be a touch screen phone or a normal high-end mobile phone.

Mobile browsers also are not capable of handling all website displays, their RAM power cannot be compared to a PC, the temporary memory cache gets over flooded very soon, also imagine you took a live video of music concert and try to upload it via you tube application now available on some high-end phones, you would just watch the phone uploading the clip endlessly and miss the concert, probability is that your GPRS or EDGE connection may time out.

I have just given up on my dream of having a properly functional portable internet technology in India as of now, since we have more important issues like poverty, hunger and Inflation to deal with... (Don’t know for how many years.. Sigh!)