Smartphone obsessed India goes to extreme lengths to make their picture perfect, in Bengaluru

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Our camera obsession has turned a tech revolution into a death trap - a veritable fatal infatuation. The profusion of tablets and mobie smart phones at this event in Bangalore, India, just goes to show the extent to which we have handed over our independent thinking to tiny hand-held devices. Nowhere else could you see such a huge number of technology dependent and obsessed urban dwellers than here. When Sony Ericsson launched its mobile phone Z1010 in the year 2003 with a front-facing camera, its officials would never have thought that their innovation would turn out to be more fatal than the deadly sharks. It seems we Indians are getting too addicted to our smartphones. As per a global survey by B2X Care Solutions, a provider of customer care for smartphones, 57% of Indians said they can