Although it was almost 20 years ago, I can still recall how amazed and happy I was when I had my first ever cellphone, a Nokia 5110 (yeah, I know how true-blooded millennials would react: “Nokia what?!”). But at that time, being able to make and receive calls and text messages anytime and anywhere was already considered significant technological luxuries – a wireless telephone and a pager (another foreign term, I know) rolled into one. We were treated to a new level of convenience and connectivity. And not only that, the now-primitive but still challenging “Snake” game allowed me to get past through a lot of boring moments.
Ten years later, a déjà vu of amazement struck me again when I had my first smartphone. Before then, it was unimaginable to have access to the internet through a cellphone with a camera and a large touchscreen. As the years pass, we continue to see a continuous stream of improvements and enhancements pouring into the modern smartphone – with powerful rear and front camera, high-speed connectivity and countless apps – that enable us to practically do a whole lot of things. That’s what we call “innovation.”