Hello Mobile..

Each of us have our cellphone stories, how and when we owned our first cellphone(self purchase/gift/second hand passed on by sibling). The basic model, the initial promotional plans, the coverage hiccups, the first polyphonic ringtones.The longest call that you made, the call that rings in happiness, the ones that break your heart. The times when you sit in anticipation for the phone to ring and the times that you dread the sound of the phone ringing. How each one of us traded our basic models for the swanky feature rich 'smart phones'. Some of us were  always quick to lap up the latest model only to be enamored by the next new thing that came along. And some of us still live in bliss holding on to our mobosaurs. This would be a sneer from some smart phone geek who thinks he is well past the Jurassic age of mobile phones. Only if he could realize that the mobile Jurassic age has shrunk to a couple of months and he will always be on the run..

So each one has a story of our relationship with our mobile-the technical specifications, the grand stories of acquisitions, possessions, upgrades, theft, and relinquishment.
The other aspect of the story is how the phone has changed the dynamics of our personal relationship.
A daily call at 10pm ( 8:30 am India time) is my only link to my parents except for the occasional skype calls.
A phone interview is my only make or break chance to get that million dollar job that I have always dreamt of..(honestly neither have I had any such dream nor am I close to any such phone call  :P) but still for the purpose of argument it is a valid proposition.
Some arranged marriages entail an awkward phone call as the icebreaker(how ingeniously convenient)
Surprisingly some friendships are about long phone calls, sometimes small phone calls snatched between busy day schedules and also the yawning exchanges before you finally begin to snore.
We can almost look at relationships through the prism of our phone call registers..(just took fancy of the word prism and used it, though in this context we can clearly disqualify the usage)

Communication experts explain that communication entails both the verbal and non verbal aspects. A phone conversation communicates the verbal piece depending on the quality, reliability,coverage of  network service provider. That's a lot of compromise already as for the non verbal you just have to make the best guess and all of us have our stories of how tricky that gets at times. So good luck with the phony sixth sense :)