My Favourite Banksy.

Oh, Banksy. You all-knowing, all-seeing prophet of our times. You've targeted capitalism, the surveillance state, frisking and many other evils of our time. And now you decided to take on the modern man's love for his mobile.

The beauty of this graffiti is that it's actually very understated. Banksy like most street artists has to go for the hyperbole but here is a sight that you see every day. Go to a restaurant and have a look at any couple or even any family. Nearly every one is busy with their phones. It's as if the human mind is now incapable of carrying out one conversation at a time. The need to attend to unending pings from your phone is second only to breathing. And that's just sad. I mean for the love of God, we have now a disease called ringxiety. We are getting ruder because we spend more time online. So, please for your sake and for the sake of humanity, put your phone on silent. Yes, there's a switch on the side that lets you do that. Believe me you, you would be much better for doing that. 

Cheers to Apple for Sticking by its Words.

The Apple unveiled its new iPhone some days back. Or rather iPhones in this case - a big budget one called iPhone 5s and a plasticky, cutesy or as Nokia calls it an iOS Lumia clone called 5c. Both of them are really underwhelming. Yes, there's the 64-bit processor which is indeed a big deal but it's not something that an average consumer can understand, nor is it something that will change his life. Think Siri. Think Instagram. Think any of the flashy Galaxy S4 features. None of them had anything to do with the processing power, but with how the phones actually influence a user's life. All said and done, Apple did impress me by doing one great thing - they stuck by their words. Remember this old commercial where Apple bragged about how the iPhone 5 was ergonomically designed to perfectly fit in any hand?

Well that bit is true. The slightly thinner and wider design on the new iPhones make them far easy to handle than the large bulky smartphones out there. Granted the Xperia Z Ultra or the Galaxy S4 pack more processing power and bells and whistles than the iPhone 5, but do they fit right into your hand like the iPhone 5? What's even better is that Apple resisted the urge to increase their screens like their competitors. The Lumia 1020 is a goliath. The Xperia ZL is not a tab-phone/phablet, it's really tablet you use as a phone. Props to Apple for sticking with sense, instead of gimmicks. Hopefully next time they do something that really gives all the Android powered Smartphone companies a chill down their spines and a run for their money.

Destroy My Droid - App Idea.

Ever had a your phone stolen? Ain't that a kick in the head. Apart from losing all your precious data, you lose something that's much more than a device. You lose an indispensable part of your life. Of course there are apps to track your phone in such cases (Find My Droid, some inbuilt one's from Samsung) but chances are you would never see your phone again. If your phone was nabbed by some syndicate, those slime balls can even change your IMEI too. And even if you manage to block your phone or find its location, how do you plan to recover it, if say, it's in Reykjavik.

So what do you do in such cases? Of course file a report with the cops, but do you let the bad guys get away with your phone? No, you go full vigilante on their ass.

Enter Destroy My Droid. The nifty little app I plan to create (with conceivably zero coding skills and generous donations from you, dear reader). You install the app on the phone and if your phone ever gets stolen and you know there's no chance of recovery. You send in your secret Destroy My Droid code to your phone and it explodes. Curious about how the mechanism works? I have no idea about it myself, but you know you want this app on your phone.

For $2 more you can even have your phone dictate a personal message to the guys who stole your phone before it explodes. Special discounts if you go with Samuel L Jackson's 'I will strike down upon thee with vengeance' speech from Pulp Fiction.

You can bring the Destroy My Droid app to life by participating in my Kickstarter campaign. Don't donate to make me rich, do it to do right by your phone and serve justice to those who wronged it and you.

*App soon to be launched for Apple Devices. Tentative Name - 'Here's a Rotten Apple, Bitch'.

Shit the Samsung Galaxy S4 cannot do!

There's the powerhouse octa-core processor, then there are features like Air Gesture which allow you to view messages without touching the screen and Smart Pause which pauses your videos when you look away. All in all the Samsung Galaxy S4 is a formidable phone. In fact, far more powerful than my Google Nexus 4, which only a few days back was the fastest phone on the planet.

But there's one thing the S4 can't do? And that's this.

360 Panorama / Street View pictures - eat your heart out Galaxy S4!

Yes, there's an S4 review on my monitor.

PS: This outburst has a lot to do with my phone not being the fastest phone on the planet anymore and it being outrun by the Sony Xperia and HTC One X. But I love you nonetheless my beloved Nexus. I shall continue to defend you through idiotic blog posts.