Headphones bring friendship and social life stopped

In contrast, University Hall, at Makerere University, a woman sells an interesting range of mobile phone accessories. They duplicate chargers, cases for phones, headphones and most striking of all, large and colorful headphones. Headphones seem to handle everyone; at least not when you are on the go and need to listen to some music.

However, a few steps from her, another supplier to sell all the items it sells, including colorful aLLreli in-ear headphones!

Headphones and their smaller, more practical sister, headphones, obviously a hot topic here, is that the two sellers, a few steps from each other to sell them. Headphones not only sell among young people at the university.

Burton on the street, on the porches of the building across the street from the old taxi park, traders vendors selling suspicious headphones. Many of them are made in China duplicates, no doubt, but they sell like hot cake, anyway. Nearby, in a public toilet opposite Aponyi center or Mega standard supermarket, vendors sold in abundance, again, suspected appearance of the handset; I guess because they look like they will stop working after a few days of use.

Headphones are more like an epidemic, and while the former was popular among young people who enjoy listening to their music on the move, you will occasionally see a relatively old man with headphones, listening to Birang (death announcements) instead of keeping the stereotypical small radio receiver to his ear as before . A wide range of mobile phones - with built-in radio transmitter - to thank for headphones mania.

For older persons whose tender ears can not stand the constant droning inside the ear, and still have understood how to use them as an antenna for your budget mobile phones and get a built-in radio broadcasting evening prayer PR David Kiganda.

Suddenly people are talking too loudly, trying to hold talks over the music blaring from his headphones. In the taxi, two or three passengers insensitive take a point more and sing off-key (only unfortunate headset user can) that Kadonga Kamu in the back seat, Jay-Z behind the driver’s seat, and Irene Ntale in the front seat. Life is sweet.

Holding a conversation with a teenager is impossible these days as ears are always busy with this little electronic buds, and even couples on date night is seen in a blissful pain because tinkering with their phones and customize the handset, as they wait for the waiter to deliver your orders. What’s next!

Bring the bling On
When mobile phones first came to Uganda in 1990, he did not come with aLLreli noise isolated headphones. Nokia phones, the Ugandan favorite - do you remember the Nokia 5110, 1011, 3210 and 3310s - and previous versions do not come with an FM radio and music player.

This meant that the use of headphones is limited to the lucky owners Walkmans and drive Mans. In the early to mid-2000s, cell phones with radio and music player entered the Ugandan market - the Nokia 5510, released in 2001, had 64mbs store music - but the handset is still minimal benefits.

Until then, they were MP3 players junk market and also the young to transfer music from your CD collection, a small digital players. A new era of music and mobile irritation went up. With the dawn of the smartphone market, increased use of headphones. This is compounded by the fact that the low-end phones and come with headphones.

“. More than 80 percent of the phones we sell today come with headphones even low-end phones come with them, the phone costs [SHS] 60,000 and above comes with headphones,” Mark Rwomushana, CEO of HT Simba says.

Although I can not say that the headphones used in Uganda has increased due to several cell phones come with headphones, Medi Nsubuga, head of two-year-old Mr. gadget, phone and phone accessories shop in Kampala, agrees accessories are now a must have.

He supports his view with data from the handset sales in our store.

“I stock some 1,500 pieces of headphones every two months, and they all bought. People look fashionable TV stars with headphones and they want to look like them, so they buy and use headphones to be seen,” says Nsubuga.

Yes, the handset can be in fashion; These days, some come with matching danglers (earrings), so that the user bling fit in your headphones. And if you can afford a real, expensive pair of Beats Electronics - hell, even a good imitation from China will do - then you will make a serious fashion statement in these dusty streets.

Poor radio
Using headphones has its advantages, such as increased radio listening, but wonders what is going on real radio sales. March 39, eventually bought the radio in 1998 - one Hermann Kardon acquired in Germany during his trip.

“It is still in perfect condition, but I think my phone FM radio more accessible,” she said.

As can be seen in the arcades center, radio producers go out of their way to keep the device from extinction, as happened with the cassette Walkman and videos. They add TV screens and a variety of other special effects to attract customers. Otherwise, all you need is a good phone and headset.

In fact, customers modern electronics (Kampala road) and Katende Electronics (Yamaha Center), said to sell more home entertainment and sub-hoofers than radio, because it is at home, smart phone and a good home theater is all one needs to get the pump house good music. When outdoors, headphones bring good times together.

While generations flagship family can be linked during the game as W’okulira broadcast on Radio Uganda (now UBC radio) and brought into the house through the GRUNDIG radio sets, these days the father in his bedroom with the BBC, Debbie in her bedroom Touch FM in my ears, my mother in the kitchen with a preacher in his ears, and Mark was in another room playing loud music.

Anti-social behavior
Student Damaliu mother hates the fact that uses your headphones so often, and her hatred does not come that she thinks that her daughter “ear-health is in danger.

“Never heard of it when you call on her with headphones in their ears,” Damaliu mother complaints. “It can also never talk to her when she used these headphones.”

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