I woke up this morning triumph over with anticipation, just such as the 599,999 other people who pre-ordered the iPhone 4. I pre-ordered my mobile phone through Ideal Spend money on, and it proved to become an easy and uncomplicated course of action. Apparent “foreshadowing” alert.
Unlike Apple, Best Get didn’t have any lines wrapping around their store, having staggered their iPhone pickups to lessen the load on their employees. I had my cellular phone for about two hours prior to everyone else in the office – two extra hours of blissful “Haha,
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I volunteered to test the cellular phone all day, doing reception tests,
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The final test I performed was to see how well the reception held up while travelling by car. I took a cab from the Giz office in Soho up to Times Square,
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Everything was great in my little world – I was in Times Square with my shiny new iPhone 4. And then the inevitable happened – or what,
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I shattered my mobile phone hours after buying it, in the line of duty no less. If only Apple decided to make the back of the cell phone steel. Or rubber. Or leather. Or not ########ing glass, the most shatterable material known to man. But hey, I’m trying to think optimistically here; at least it wasn’t the front screen that cracked, and the look gives it character… I guess.