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Smart Phone For Dumb Users

Technology is an amazing paradox. It is used to simplify peoples' lives and help in the evolutionary curve of mankind but somehow, it makes the users dumber and dumber with its every "simplistic" invention. Thanks to word documents and auto corrects, we have almost forgotten spellings and wonder if professor is supposed to be with "ff" or "ss" or both. The list could go on endlessly, but the post is not about that, it's about an ad on air that has beautifully art-directed this phenomena for a mobile phone. Samsung Galaxy Y Duos Lite is a phone for the almost retarded and the "blonds of the world". The ad features 2 guys in Gangtok who find a wallet and while one wants to "party" with the new-found money, the other prefers returning the wallet saying it must be somebody's. One line from the former friends says that there's no name or address but that doesn't bother his friends who removes his smart phone to find t