iPhone Ten Days Later

I posted a couple of weeks ago how I was going to buy an iPhone. I believed that there would be plenty in stock and that I wouldn't have to be one of those idiots waiting in line. As it started to get closer to the time when the iPhone was going to be on sale, I started to get nervous. I needed to get somebody to wait in line for me, just in case.

When you are paying somebody to wait in line for you, they need to be somebody who doesn't have anything better to do and won't charge you an arm and a leg. Obviously, I called B-side, who isn't exactly doing nothing because he is constantly working on things now that he is doing the full-time screenwriter thing, but he actually prefers to work into the wee hours. I would ask him to wait a couple of hours in the afternoon, meaning it wouldn't harm his schedule.

So, B-side waited in line for a couple of hours for me, and I took over at around 5:30. The people in line around me were really nice and I had my two iPhones (I bought one for another friend who also didn't want to wait in line) in hand before 7PM.

The phone has been everything that I wanted. My only problems are that it doesn't do MMS, meaning I can't send pictures I take on the phone via text message. It also can't send text messages to multiple people, which is crazy. Finally, I can't wait until somebody hacks the thing so I can customize the ring tones and other alerts, etc.

Other than those minor quibbles, the phone rocks, and people are constantly asking to touch it. Whenever I pull it out, people want to look and touch. The battery life is good, especially if you turn off WiFi, and using it just as an iPod (in Airplane mode with all data service turned off) can go on forever. Eventually, the allure will wear off and nobody will be impressed at how I wasted that much money on a cell phone, but I love it so I don't care. I have never been one to buy a new computer, laptop, iPod or cell phone just because a slightly newer one came out, but I am not sure if I can resist with this one.