The Cellphone

In India, we get to see, feel, touch almost anything we want to buy be it cars, bikes (test ride), vegetables and what not.

Hell, we can even see how the girl looks, talks, walks, sings, dances (no test ride here) before we say ok, during the traditional ponnu paakarathu thing..

However, how come we dont get to do any of it while buying the necessary evil of a gadget called the cellphone. We are shown a dummy piece which is as lifeless as dead fish (i dont know how a dead fish looks).

How are we too assume how the phone actually looks, whether the display is good, whether it has musical ringtones, clarity of speech and the host of other frills and fancies.

Why dont the cellphone manufacturers provide demo phones to their distributors? Would it cost much to the manufacturer's like Nokia or Sony Ericsson who produce more phones than you can blink every minute?

Maybe it's time we all did something about it.

There is a way out here though..con your friend into buying the phone you want to buy, see how it works. If he does not like it and you like it, buy it from him. If you do not like it, simple..con another friend into buying another model.

So life goes on.