I Bought an iPhone 3Gs

I’ve become hip for at least six or seven months. You know, until Apple releases yet another iPhone and mine becomes obsolete. But, for now, it’s true. I’m hip! I’m “in”! I know what’s going on! All thanks to my iPhone! (And the apps that are supposed to tell me what’s going on…)

See?

Here’s how all of this came about: I’ve been stalking my upgrade date for an iPhone via my AT&T web account for… months. Originally, I couldn’t upgrade until November of this year. When they released the iPhone 3Gs, AT&T bumped my upgrade date to August 10, 2009. (Also known as yesterday.) Now, we’re leaving for vacation in four days. I figured that I wouldn’t be able to purchase my iPhone until sometime in October as we have a lot of things going on including a radiator repair on our main vehicle. I figured that one month early would be just fine.

And then I won a $250 Visa gift card from All Thumbs Reviews courtesy of BlogHer and Capri-Sun. Not only was I excited but when I did the math, that gift card put us back above where we needed to be with respect to the car maintenance, leaving me free to do what I wanted with said gift card. When the gift card arrived on Saturday, the last possible mail date before the 10:00am open of my AT&T store on the morning of my upgrade date, I took it as a sign and ran with it.

My experience at the AT&T store was fabulous. True, I know the manager but, as a manager, he can’t make the sale. My salesman was wonderful, considerate of my time frame as I had two little boys who were giggly and ready to head to the library and, generally helpful with the sale. Soon enough, I walked out the door with my new iPhone 3Gs. Since then, I’ve fallen in love. Or, you know, as “in love” as you can be with an inanimate object.

I’ve downloaded various apps. (Twitterfon, Facebook, AIM, Klick (for flickr), WordPress and… on and on.) I’ve figured out how to program the weather for our city as well as for my parents town, Pittsburgh (my love), and Emerald Isle, NC (FOUR DAYS!). I’ve added various email accounts. I’ve added pictures from my computer so that pictures from my fancy dSLR show up when people call me. I’m not loving the camera (did I mention I own a dSLR) but I will survive. Really I feel that camera phones are made to capture funny license plates, misspelled signs and embarrassing moments out and about. I’ve upgraded to the 3.0.1 firmware so no one can turn my phone off with a wayward text message.

Did I mention that I’m in love?

(Did I also mention that it was ridiculously hot and humid today, making my hair insanely curly?)

And so, here I am. Four days from vacation with a brand new fancy phone that, in all reality, cost me absolutely nothing. I’m feeling pretty good right about now. The best part of the day, however, was the discussion I had with BigBrother on the way to the “phone store,” as I explained where we were going and what we were doing.

Me: We’re going to the phone store because I need to buy a new phone.

BigBrother: Is your phone broken?

Me: No. It’s just time for a new phone.

BigBrother: Is it an iPhone?

Me: How do you know about the iPhone?

BigBrother: *cue giggles*

And so the two Brothers ran around the house all day yesterday with their cardboard replicas of the iPhone, saying, “iPhone! iPhone! My phone! iPhone!” Interspersing that with, “FIVE DAYS!” But today, of course, it’s FOUR DAYS! FOUR DAYS until our glorious beach vacation.

Be prepared for lots of twitpics from my iPhone. Maybe even a whrrl story of our trip!