Have you ever misplaced or lost your phone? | Industry Study
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Feb 2023
Today’s video is a discussion on a subject that has a very recent history, and so I am going to be brief.
Telephones, of course, have a long history, but the mobile phones we use today have been around only for around two decades.
There was no way you could have misplaced the older phones, the ones that sat on a flat surface and were attached by a cord to a socket on the wall. You couldn’t carry them around anywhere. So you couldn’t lose them. They were always there at the end of the wire.
Very different from the phones we use today. These are a different story altogether.
So let me ask some questions.
Have you ever misplaced your mobile phone somewhere in your office or home or in between and wasted precious time looking for it?
- Have you left your mobile phone in a car or at a friend’s house or at some airport lounge – and had your blood pressure shoot up because you simply cannot remember where you might have lost it?
- Has a kind taxi driver returned to your house to inform you that you left your phone in his taxi and he had come to hand it back to you?
- Or have you simply lost your phone in the depths of your handbag or backpack, and looked into every nook and corner of your house for the next two hours, given up, and then found it in your handbag or backpack – exactly where you had kept it? And, of course, you had not heard it ringing (when you dialed it) because it was in silent mode?
These are all things that have happened to me or people in my family.
Have they happened to you too? Or to people you know?
I bet they have.
And I bet they have happened to every second or third mobile phone user in the world.
And if that is so, or even if it has happened to, say, ten or fifteen percent of mobile phone users, which would still be a very, very large number of people, don’t you think the mobile phone manufacturers should do something about it?
Hey, hey, hey! If phone users are scatter-brained, you might ask, what can the mobile phone makers do about it?
I’ll tell you what they can do.
They can fix a small ring to the phone to which a chain or cord can be attached, the other end which could be fixed to a belt loop on your trousers or to the belt of your purse with a short or long or elastic cord. Or they can just equip each phone with a ring and a chain.
The cost of such an attachment would be insignificant compared to the cost of the phone; but it would make the phone more secure.
The phone makers have provided us with the means to ensure a certain minimum of security. So we secure our phones with passwords. Shouldn’t the phone makers ensure that we do not easily lose our phones in the first place?
Or do they wish that we do lose our phones – so that we have to buy new ones from them?
If you agree with my suggestion about the attachment of a chain or cord to the phone, please click the Like button below. And tell your friends. And write to the mobile phone makers and tell them they should fix a hook on their phones to allow users to secure it.
In the meanwhile, if the phone makers ignore this suggestion – good luck! Don’t ever lose your phone!
