College, Mobiles and Cameras
I have been in college for more than 4 months now and like many other college going students in India have been instructed not to carry a mobile phone with a camera into the college by our college authorities. I am one of those people who don’t care if we have a camera in our mobile but do need a good enough GPRS facility, nice resolution, JPG image support, mp3 ringtones and Java facility. So if you want all this you just can’t take a mobile to college because any mobile with these facility ends up having a camera, at the least a VGA camera. Since I am a internet freak I had one of these kinds of phones and I ended up loosing it to the college authorities(even though we are allowed to bring cameras into college). I really have no problem with that fact that they took my mobile phone and neither do I want to write blaming them because that will be too stupid. But I wanted to point out some details for people who might find this interesting.
Nowadays mobile phones as cheap as of Rs. 2500 and above have camera. But many high end mobiles don’t have them(not that we can buy them). 
Camera with a mobile phone is not a luxury now but actually a necessity according to many people. People demand it since many people use mobile phones as their primary camera. The way mobile has been developing I am sure the day is not far when mobiles phone will not be made without camera. All mobiles will have camera. I guess this would happen in nearly 5-7 years in India. I guess at that time they will just simply ban mobile phones in colleges.
December 15th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
In my personal opinion the college law makers are really screwed up guys who cannot move along with Technology.
December 15th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Yeah, I totally agree it’s just that they can’t see the progress made around them. They are so narrow minded that they think everyone will repeat that DPS, Delhi incident. Only if I could lay my hands on that kid from DPS he wouldn’t see light of the next day just because with his life he ruined everybody else’s life too.
December 26th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
My friend had a similar situation, he need a phone with gprs, bluetooth, mp3 etc, but no camera. He ended up taking SE M600i, which costed him around 17k.
Now people have a wierd look, 17k Mobile and no cam, what the…?
January 1st, 2008 at 5:59 am
I was thinking of getting the same phone too. But the cost is the problem. Reallly when I buy mobile if I pay near or above 10k I feel cheated if it doesn’t have a camera.
January 5th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
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