John is a sales executive at ABC Company and he carried has sales figures in his laptop until he finally bought his new smart phone from XYZ. He literally had the world in his pocket i.e. in his smart phone. Since it has mobile email and mobile office the two most widely used applications at his finger tips his efficiency increased twice fold as his original problem of staying connected while flying ceased. With the presence of 16 Gig memory card and with his blue tooth stereo headset paired to his phone eliminated his need to carry a music player. Now he could listen to music while waiting for his client, answer and make calls and switch back to music all using a single button.
John was en route to NY head quarters via XYZ airlines from O’Hare Chicago to JFK NY. While having his lunch he checked his flight departure time with the email confirmation from the travel agent via his mobile office and clicked on the web link provided in email. This automatically opened a web browser and he was able to track his flight details on the fly. Touched the phone number that was provided in the webpage and it opened the dialer and placed a call. Since his Bluetooth was connected to his phone, audio path was routed to the head set putting the music that was playing in the background. While he was talking to the customer care, his wife called him, the phone put the first call on hold. He answered his wife’s call she wished him a safe flight and asked him call again before his flight departed. He then resumed his first call with the customer care after his wife hung up. Once both the calls ended the music resumed playing and continuing his sandwich.
He then launched browser and googled’ O’Hare taxi and from their website got the phone number. He touched the number and dialed the taxi service and scheduled a pick up couple of hrs before the reporting time. As part of preparation for the trip he connected his phone to PC
via USB cable and using the USB mass storage option transferred all his songs from his PC. While it was transferring he received a text from his old buddy who was working at NYC asking his plans and schedule. Using the call back number from the text message he called back his buddy and began talking to him. At the same time his Bluetooth headset drained out
and gave an option to switch the audio to phone. Once the audio switched to the phone he began talking to him while the songs were getting transferred. He also put his call on mute when one of his co-worker barged into his cube. After the conversation was over he ended the call and at the same time all the song transfer completed. He then changed the USB
connected to charge only and disconnected the phone from PC. He put his Bluetooth headset to charge.
While sitting in the taxi he launched youtube and watched his favorite sitcom listening in his wired head set. He then checked in his luggage and was on his way to board the flight. Once he sat in his seat he quickly called up his wife and informed her that he was boarding. At the same time his daughter who was studying in a different city called him. He merged the calls and all three spoke. Once he ended the call he received announcement from the air hostess that all electronic devices needs to be turned off, he turned airplane on. He turned his wi-fi on and connected to the special wi-fi that the airplane had. He turned his music player on and began listening via his 3.5 mm headset. As soon he connected to the internet his emails began to pour. Previously he used to take is mighty laptop out and every one around would stare at him. Now he could use his XYZ smart phone to answer email and even look at some reports. While working he receives a calendar alert on his personal email regarding paying his monthly credit card which he had set. So using that alert he logged onto his bank and paid his bills. After a while he closed his emails and downloaded a game from the market place on to his phone and began playing it just to kill time.
The flight landed JFK and he turned off the airplane mode and placed an outgoing call to his wife indicating that he had reached NY. He then began listening to music while is picked up luggage.
He liked the view from the airport and took couple of pictures from his 5 MP camera present on his phone. He even sent a multimedia message to his wife and some one email attachment to his co-worker. He then hopped onto the shuttle which took him to the customer service so that he could pick up his car that was pre-booked. As soon as he went there they asked for the confirmation number. He opened his email which had the confirmation and gave it to them. When he sat in the car using voice search in the maps he searched his hotel which punched in the destination address and stated the navigation. The turn by turn direction was so good that he reached his hotel right on time. He checked to the hotel room put his phone to charge and opened his laptop and began working on the presentation.
-- Random thought of a diminshed mind
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