I have had a mobile phone from the time I got locked out of my building by a sleeping watchman after a late night edit- almost 15 years ago. In those days phones used to weigh a ton, cost Rs.16 for outgoing, Rs.8 for incoming and a queen’s ransom for an SMS. It had allowed storage space for 200 odd numbers – It was, a long, long time ago…

Now, mobiles possibly have more processing power than the room sized computers that sent the first space mission to the moon ….

I was telling someone yesterday, how the first PC that i actually bought was a Mac- it had 4 MB Ram, 40 MB Hard Disk Space and i paid close to 1000 GBP for it. A few months later i got a 80 MB external HDD for GBP 2000 (1992) – and i was thrilled to bits :).
Last month i got a 8 GB thumb drive for something like Rs.750/-

Today, an average phone does pretty much what the PC did 5 years ago, possibly more.
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I have been clicking pictures for a fairly long time – moved from film (which i actually hated) to the chip the way a duck takes to water. Love the digital format. the one thing that I have actually refused to do – is take pictures on my mobile.

But, yesterday I changed my stance. I took part in the Nokia N8 – urbanspree city tour – and was quite impressed. There were 3 teams of 2 each – a tech blogger & a non tech blogger (who also photoblogged) and we were testing out the phone and uploading pics on line, using the phone to find directions and so on.

Good fun. It is an easy to use device – i got used to it in some 10 minutes. and shooting was a revelation – Here are some of the pics, the rest are here

The Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai

Gateway of India

Bangles out side Cafe Mondegar

The Mumbai Local

Crawford Market

While I am not going to give up shooting on the DSLR anytime soon – i can see myself using the N8 more regularly to take pics. Oh btw – the phone also allows you to make calls, and send messages 🙂

I am testing out the phone – for the next couple of weeks – will post more as I go along