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Stuck with the iPhone

Of course. When I'm hating the iPhone the most and fed up with how terrible of a device it really is, there's nothing that I can do about it. I tried to get away from it. I just got back from the local T-Mobile store with a brand new G1 , but of course that can't work out. Unfortunately T-Mobile's 3g cover age in my apartment is abysmal. Their website said that I would get 3 bars of coverage, but I'm lucky to hang on to 2 and usually see just 1. Fantastic. I guess I'm just destined to live with a subpar device that's proven to be unreliable, over-hyped, and flat out boring. I haven't even used the thing in about 3 days. It's been sitting in my pant's pocket wherever I go and I can't be bothered to take it out. The most usage it's seen is when I took it out to show my background to my boss (it's a picture of my dog) when he asked about the physical picture of my dog on my desk at work. I'm too frustrated with it to care enough to c...

Dumping the iPhone

I'm done. I'm tired of dealing with issues arising from my iPhone and I'm just fed up with not having a phone that "just works." I used to believe that Apple cared about making quality hardware, but my experiences with the iPhone 3G have led me to believe otherwise. I have never used a more buggy, crashy, and wholly unreliable electronic device than an iPhone 3G and I'm just fed up. Since the new iPhone came out, there's been nothing but trouble with it. The activation process was down for hours and I was left with a $200 iBrick for most of the day. Didn't activation problems plague the original iPhone and wouldn't you have expected Apple to do something to prevent it with the launch of their new device? I guess that didn't cross their mind. Once activated, I found that the battery life was significantly less than the previous generation and it crashed and rebooted a lot more, too. A great introduction. Within a few months things seemed to impr...