Smartphone Standardization delayed - email to DG BIS

Smt. Alka Panda, IAS

Director General (DG)
Bureau of Indian Standards
Manak Bhavan
9 Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi-110002,India     
Tel: 011- 23237991, 23236980, Fax: 011- 23235414
dg@bis.gov.in
www.bis.gov.in                                                              

Date: 17 Feb 2017, Bhubaneswar

Madam

Namaskar.

I am quickly drawing your kind attention to the following few points:

(1) Mobile phone batteries are not yet standardized, which is sole responsibility of your organisation. It is a huge negligence since last 15 years. I have also written to yo before from my official email Id on the same issues. But there is no action from your team. It is good that 1/2 technical officers from BIS had discussed with me. But surprisingly they could not understand what is standardization for mobile phones, marketed in India.

In due course, the charging pins/ jacks have been standardized by manufacturers (including audio jacks and data cables). BUT THE BATTERIES ARE COMING WITH MANUFACTURER-SPECIFIC SIZES AND VOLTS OUTPUT. PLEASE DEFINE THE SIZES/ DIMENSIONS TO AT LEAST 5 VARIETIES. AND COMBINE THE OUTPUT VOLTS ACCORDINGLY. In short, the battery dimension and power output should be defined and confined in India irrespective of SMART PHONES, MOBILE DEVICES and feature phones.

(2) Manufacturing of 2G handsets should be discouraged. Recent trend of owning a 4G VOLTE handset (say smartphones)  is the impact of JIO REVOLUTION. BIS has no contribution in this move. So the previous 4G players/ operators had lost their reliability and business. Please define features like minimum 16GB internal memory, VoLTE and so on.

(3) The biggest drawback of smartphones/ mobile phones marketed in India is its language compatibility. INTERFACE language or INPUT language should be Indian exclusively. And the SMS or messaging standard should be Unicode standard only. Similarly the character limitation for Indian scripts should be removed. And set at par with English/ Roman script. Presently one SMS count is 120 characters in Roman and 70 in Indian scripts. This is a huge negligence and exploitation of the republic govt yet in 2017...

I do believe that your Personal Assistant would present this email on your table and then your technical team would review the issues minutely to take a quick action.

Please listen to people respectfully at least during this union govt.

Thanks and regards.

ବିମଳପ୍ରସାଦ / Bimal Prasad
ବ୍ଲଗ୍‌ସମୂହ/ blog: http://odiapila.blogspot.in
ଟୁଇଟର/Twitter: @bimalodisha
ଫେସ୍‌ବୁକ୍‌/ Facebook: bimalprasad68