Cellphone models are the new zodiac signs. They can tell people whether you are a party animal or the shy romantic who will never put out on the first date. But shallow typecasting aside, many of these stereotypes are being used by software companies to target the right users.
It was a dinner at a posh Italian restaurant and the entrees had arrived. But they just sat there, ignored and turning cold, as two friends typed on their phones at autobahn speed as the third read out a passage from a book. It was a speed test of a different kind - which phone, an iPhone or a BlackBerry, typed faster and with more accuracy. The first level of the test was to type on their own phones and then swap them. Escalated heartbeats, frowed brows, bruised fingertips and one injured ego later, silence descended on the table. Dinner was over.

This is not an exceptional scene.