I know what you are thinking. "Great, another stupid iPhone article. Can't I even escape that thing in a fashion article?" Well, no, not really. But I am not here to talk about the usability of the phone, the maybe/maybe-not technological breakthrough, or anything like that. I am here to talk about this phone as an accessory.
I was not planning on buying the iPhone opening day. My husband, of course, was. My plan was to see how he liked the phone, and the carrier (I was not excited about switching back to AT&T or Cingular or whatever the hell they are calling themselves this week). If all was good, I would get one in a few months. If the service was unbearable, I would upgrade to the newest Blackberry. I had been using my husband's hand-me-down Motorola Q for the last month. It was great at first. I loved having a full keyboard, and the email was indispensable. But it was highly flawed. It was slow, it had a horrible battery life that couldn't even take me through the day, and it froze or crashed frequently.
Thursday night was the last straw. The phone froze three times on me in the space of a few hours, then went all the way and gave me the mobile equivalent of the Blue Screen of Death. After a master reset gave me a working phone with no data, I said "Screw this, I'm getting an iPhone."
Yes, we waited in line for the iPhone. My husband loves waiting in line for huge product launches. We had a big group of friends there, too. They lined up around 10:00 am; I showed up around 1:00 pm for lunch, then went shoe shopping (look for those beauties in an upcoming post). I only ended up in line for about two hours.
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1 - JC
This just in: iphailure.com reports, iPhone to grace the cover of Glamour Magazine! JK, although it wouldn't shock me I guess.