Mobile Phone and A Racing Car

Will you dare to put your mobile phone in a racing track to be run over by a racing car? Sounds funny, isnt it? just go ahead to read this blog.

Today [Sep 8, 2006] is a weekend in this geography. However, as a practice we went to office for work. We had a lazy breakfast and a lengthy tea break. After a while, we decided to call it a day and go to the food court in the nearby shopping mall for lunch. After a junky lunch in one of the western chain, we started strolling around the mall doing window shopping.

I came across many interesting things...definitely interesting, but atleast not going to change "my" life style.

For example, there is a branded pen. The starting price is BD 130 [that is 120 times of 130 in Indian Rupees]. What difference is it going to make if i sign with this pen or using an ordinary pen that we get in the street corner shops of singara chennai - i dont know.

Then there were a range of mobile phone varying from BD 230 - BD 399. They do serve a little more purpose than just making and receiving phone calls. I remembered one of my client side manager. He carries a very old model, probably the very first mobile phone that motorola introduced in the market. When I ask him if it was his sentiment to keep the same mobile, he used to say that it is not his sentiment, but, he did not find anything more that a mobile phone can serve. He can still make and receive calls, store numbers and send SMS. What more is required for a mobile phone? I find it to be a valid argument.

However, here comes the big surprise. I came across a showroom which looked much secured than a diamond showroom. Out of curiosity, just peeped into the showroom through the glass door. There were a few, very few mobile phones on display. Not a usual stuff for a normal mobile showroom. When i just got a little closer, surprised to see ... the price of one mobile phone is BD 8120 [yes, that is Eight Thousand One Hundred and Twenty Bahrain Dinars]. OH MY GOD...that is much much higher than what i received as salary during my entire 13 months stay in Bahrain. The most wonderful thing is that the mobile phone was displayed with a caption "How many handhelds can withstand a racing car? This phone withstood a racing car running over this phone ..." after that everything was like "blah blah blah" for me.

When i came out of shop, i was still in the grip of little shock and lot of surprises. One thing i am still not clear. Let us say one will do hundred things with a cell mobile...but which whacko will put his mobile under the tyre of a running race car and what purpose does it solve whether the phone stayed put or not after this test?

regards...bright