iPhone Mania

For RG’s birthday this year I tried to surprise her. Tried I think possibly unsuccessfully. I put aside some of my spending money every week for the summer and was able to get her an iPhone. This was something she wanted even before she moved back from Moscow. However we simply didn’t have the money to get it and she had to use a phone I had bought in UK. It worked ok but it was pretty much just a plain boring phone. So she had been talking about wanting either an iPhone or a new purse from Patinia. A little local chain in Minneapolis, of course the purse would have been a bad idea, how would I pick something like that out… seriously. So an iPhone it was. But I could not buy it before hand because to transfer her number her old service would stop working. This is bad for a couple reasons. 1 – we were traveling to DC and I wanted her to have a phone in case something went wrong, and B – she would know what she was getting.

So I had to find an excuse to get out and about on my own to get her present. So I made up some story… Not a very good one. She was didn’t know exactly what I was getting her but I think she had a strong guess. Anyway I found and ATT store and signed up for new service and bought a phone. While I was in there a friend from college that is now living in DC and working as a Lawyer called up and wanted to get together. So he met up with me at the ATT store (this would help with my plan because she thought I might have hid her present at his condo). Anyway I still had the idea that I could surprise the wife. So I stopped in CVS got a huge gift bag that could conceivably hold a purse and all the paper to stuff it with, along with some pop to weight the bag down.

So we headed upstairs and “surprised” her. At that the last minute she was a little confused because of the bag but it didn’t last. She opened it up and bam there was the iPhone. She was very excited and I think happy. So she started playing with it right away and has not stopped since. It’s insane. She uses it for everything maps, shopping, looking information, facebook, everything. I have to admit is quite useful though. It works with the internet 100% better than my windows mobile. So it is pretty nice. Plus I got RG’s old iPod touch. So that was a nice side affect. But I have to admit using the iPhone really does make other phones look out dated.