-: Dreamer's Den! :-

Mobile phone (or Cell phone), the word and the object which is with everyone now-a-days, in all parts of the world, touched me in December 2001. It was my first buy from 'my own' money (Yeah, I started working from Nov 2001 and soon after getting first salary, I decided to buy a cell!) and the obvious choice at that time was the low-end but superb Nokia 3310 . I had paid around INR 3000/- for this cell! Then, after few months this started to malfunction and then my dad gifted me the ultra less weight phone I have ever seen (even, the market has ever seen) - Panasonic GD93 ! This was a very beautiful phone with color screen and good 'phone' features! After using this for 2 months, I went to China on a project and my dad continued to use the cell. He too liked it so so much. In China, I decided to go for a trendy and a small phone, which I think I paid a very hefty price of USD 400 (~ INR 19000!) (Oct 2002). This expensive set was the Nokia 8850 , with its metallic cove...

Today, after 2.5 years of using my dear Cell, the Nokia 6260 - clampshell shaped 'brick' :-), I discovered a super good feature (pretty common requirement though) that can save me good amount of money on every call! :-) As the saying goes, 'Need is the mother of all inventions', in my case I had the need to see the 'real-time' call duration ie. when the call is in progress, I wanted to see how much time has elapsed. This was and is required coz countless times, indeed, countless times it has happened that I end a call at the every beginning of next minute (1 call rate is calculated for every 60 seconds), means I end a call at 01 second or 02 seconds or 10seconds or 15seconds. After every call, I curse myself was having wasted some money for just this much time where I could have spoken a bit more till 55 or 58 or 59 seconds!! I dont know how much my money has gone to Bharti's kitty just because of this and I hate to the core! :-(( So, I searched on the net...