Do Not Fold

It’s back! I’ve bought myself *another* iPhone. Yes, I know, it’s my third one already. It’s not a secret that I’m an Apple lover, but honestly, I’m not that guy who buys every new Apple product that’s on the market right away. Let me explain my iPhone story…

I bought my first iPhone in December 2007 in London. It was the first generation iPhone and it was great! I had to hack it and jailbreak it to get it working, but that was no problem except for the fact that I wanted to create my own iPhone apps. Back then it was not possible to deploy self-made iPhone apps to your iPhone if it was jailbroken. So I bought an official (not hacked/jailbroken) 3G iPhone in September 2008. I did that mainly because the iPhone back then was still worth quite a price. I bought it for €380 in London and sold it 10 months later for €360 euros!

Everything went well until, on some evening I went to the pub, got a bit drunk and forgot to take out my precious iPhone out of the pocket of my jeans. The next morning that jeans and my iPhone ended up in the washing machine. Terrible looking pictures, no response, … I thought it was dead. I opened it, used a hairdryer and left it dry. After a week things started working again. The water from the screen started to disappear and it looked like everything —except for the camera— was working again.

Until recently, during a sync, it just crashed. I tried loads and loads of times to restore but it didn’t work anymore. In the beginning I got the pink screen of dead, but after a while it totally stopped working on me. Meanwhile, Apple announced it’s 3th generation iPhone, the 3GS. In Belgium, €575 euros for the cheapest one (16GB). Way to expensive! But when I found out that I would get €180 for the 3G iPhone if I’d buy a new one I *had* to do it :) The iPhone 3GS arrived yesterday and I’m really happy with it… it looks the same, but it’s blazing fast, it can take movies, much much nicer pictures and has a digital compas in it. But I didn’t buy it because of these new features, I bought it because my life was a mess with that Nokia. You don’t use the calender on those devices, the camera sucks, syncing with the computer is a pain in the ass, etc.

I now have an insurance with my iPhone. Something I can recommend everyone with a mobile phone above €400. On top of my monthly €30 subscription with Mobistar, I pay €6 euro for the insurance. When I drop it, wash it, … I get a new one right away. As long as it doesn’t get stolen by a pickpocket! So that’s my iPhone story, I really hope it ends here ;)