When the Symbians were Androids! [A story of me]

When Symbian smartphones were Androids...

Have you ever heard of Symbian, some of you probably have heard, or even used them.

I remember when we had only 2 of those phones at home, my father used one, and other one was divided in me and my elder brother.

It was Nokia 6600 (high-end phone at that time)

I always used to play games like Moorhuhn, Raging Thunder, Jewel matching game (forgot name), and other old games, but he didn't let me play much, he liked taking pictures, morphing them with app called Jelly.

It was fun then, it had VGA camera, but quality was pure and bright!

It had 10 or 12 MBs of internal probably, a joystick pad, wide pin CA cable, and yes a standard SDCard slot (bigger one), at that time we didn't have WiFis, 2G, 3G, 4G, but there was internet available through WAP, and GPRS (in larger and popular cities).

After that beast, we bought Nokia 7610, just for more 0.5 MP camera and a classic video editor thingy.

It was much faster and durable, except for one app which it didn't have, neither we knew how to install it on that phone, but we managed to get through it.

As a "wise" man once said, "with great power, comes great responsibility", it has remarkably good battery life compared to Nokia 6600 but it seemed to drain all the juice when we played same games on Nokia 7610, but we managed to get through it as well.

Well... few years went by greatly, but there was a change when I heard about phone which has two batteries, also works without battery, at that time we didn't know how that is possible, so went to buy it, we bought it! It was a Bilwani phone, a Chinese feature phone, it wasn't go great after all, but music volume was loud, also with camera of 1.5 or 2MP it was great for some stupids like us.

But! When we found out there was a small battery fixed inside of phone, we laughed at our stupidness.

After that we bought lots of phones, some Chinese, some Symbian, some even Java (J2ME) phones, I remember few names.

But how could I forget that last Symbian phone which my elder brother bought? It was glorious!

THE NOKIA 5230, GREATEST SYMBIAN PHONE WE EVER HAD!

It could support lots of games and apps, also with better internal space, and a 2MegaPixel camera, gyro sensor all that plus touch screen!! It was like precious gem to us!

God have mercy, we used to play Raging Thunder on it, as we know now, touch + sensors = totally fun, that was next level!

And yes, after we discovered a handwriting keyboard, we were like "Okay... that's new!"

Then came, 2011 June 11th, the day when I bought the first Android phone, Samsung Galaxy Gio! The first phone in whole neighborhood running Android OS!

Remembering the Nokia 5230 features, I thought does this phone have handwriting keyboard? gyro sensor? better battery? new games?

I was totally shocked when I found out a new keyboard, already installed and ready to use keyboard Swype! The keyboard with gesture typing!

Few hours spent learning basics and stuff with System Settings, Keyboard Settings, Languages, Lockscreen, etcetera, I noticed Google Market app at home screen after swiping a few times, it needed Gmail account to start it up, so I created new one.

Few minutes later, a screen popped up containing lots of colorful icons, at the top trending apps, I saw Talking Tom app, which everyone is familiar with. I never thought it was soooooooooooooooooooooooooo fun (notice the 'o' in 'so', that's long, I mean it), I was shouting, running room to room, showing everyone what that app can do.

We had so many laughs on the app, next day searching through Market, saw a keyboard, I was like "wow, we can install new keyboards??!!11?!1", downloaded it, installed, enabled, tapped on a text box, keyboard pops up, it was cool!

After some time, Chinese Android smartphones came into market place, people saw what this phone can do, friends told their friends, Android got viral here, and after few more months, 30% of population had their own Android phones.

Now it's like 5 years, at least 90% here own 1 Android phone, 80% own 2 or more Android phones, and 99% of them used 1 Android phone.

That's the life, never know what's next, what's in future, what'll happen next day.

Some will be happy, some will be sad, some will be angry, some will be dead.

Till next time, Good Night.