When her laptop stopped functioning, Sunaina Singh Shrestha, 22, replaced it with an iPad mini. The iPad was sent by her father from abroad upon her request. “I don’t have to use my laptop anymore as I can do everything I need to with my iPad, from studying for my exams to Facebooking,” says Sunaina.[break]
As a student whose field of study requires a lot of field visits, Sunaina finds it very convenient to carry her iPad mini to different places and use it for data gathering purposes on the field. “It’s light and portable. Unlike a laptop, it doesn’t require a separate bag, it fits inside my handbag easily,” she adds. “I use my iPad almost 12 hours a day,” shares Sunaina.
Supral’s top five app picks
1. Voxer
2. Dead Trigger (game)
3. nLocate
4. Google Sky Map
5. Polaris Office 4.0
Utkrista Malla, 19, uses two different Apple products. The first, an iPhone 4, was a gift from his brother while the iPad 2 actually belongs to his father.
“My father bought it but I use it more,” says Utrkrista. An A-Level student studying science, his virtual bookshelf on the iPad is filled with Physics past examination paper samples and novels. “I use my iPad to practice from past papers, during my exams and also use it for math, to create graphs for quadratic equations,” he adds.
“During load shedding hours, my iPad is a savior. It has a 10-hour battery life and there are a lot of things that I can do on it,” says Utkrista who, apart from using it for his college studies, also engages in various entertainment options that this device provides. Movies, interactive games, and some just-for-laughs applications, the iPad has a plethora of entertainment applications as well.
“One of the main reasons I like my iPad and iPhone is the vast applications that the devices offer. Plus, these gadgets have very simple and easy-to-use interfaces,” says Utkrista.
He feels, however, that no matter how handy an iPad is, it can’t replace a laptop. He also thinks that living in Nepal, the iPad isn’t as much as it could be, due to the expensive 3G connections and slow GPRS connections.
Utkrista’s top five app picks
1. iBooks
2. Infinity Blade 2 (game)
3. Morfo
4. Shazam
5. Photo FX Ultra
A non-believer in Apple products but a self-proclaimed techno nerd, Supral Raj Joshi, 21, brought a smart device three months ago after a lot of thought.
“I saved money for a year to buy a good phone. I wanted a windows phone at first but then settled for an Android,” shares Supral. He carries a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and has no intentions to upgrade his device at least for the next five years.
“For a movie buff like me, my phone is a blessing. It has a big screen and it’s very convenient for me to watch movies anywhere, especially on long road trips. The battery life is amazing as well. You can probably watch up to three two-hour-long movies at one go,” he adds. Features like handwriting recognition and voice memos, he believes, make his phone even more fun to use.
Sunaina’s top five app picks
1. Apps Gone Free
2. Candy Crush Saga (game)
3. Instagram
4. iZip
5. Faceboo
“I like the Android platform because whole network of app developers from all around the world who create cool apps are available for free,” says Supral. Apart from the usual calling and texting, and then watching a lot of movies and playing games, Supral also makes good use of his Smartphone to become smarter himself.
“I learn a new word each day through SAT Word a Day,” shares Supral, adding, “Plus, whenever I can’t find a location around the city, I take out my phone and seek help from Google maps.”
Supral believes that owning a Smartphone, one should use it to its full potential. As for him, he is always exploring his gadget and using it to the fullest.
High-end gadgets and gizmos, whether as gifts or one’s own purchases, are finding their way into the hands of youth most of whom are updated and upgraded with the happenings in the tech world. With one click solutions for entertainment, easy access to social networking sites and applications for almost everything to anything, these gadgets, which are easy to use, have also been easily loved by many.
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