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WOOT!! iPhone Baby!!

Jon Seah on July 27th, 2008

Well, I’ve finally got an iPhone!! After two weeks of disappointment, I got one! *Jumps for joy and does a rolling front and backflip*. When the iPhone was released on 11/07, I went on the following (Saturday) to buy one since I’ve been really impressed with the Google maps you can get on it. It definitely comes in handy for foreigners who are not familiar with the streets. Life was a living hell when I was running around the city for job interviews and not knowing where offices were.

Anyway, a bit of digression, when I went in with all my details ready to roll (bank card, bank statement and PAC code for porting number). Found an attendant to help me get one and surprisingly there was no queue for me; She helped me cut the line. We went to do the registration where she’d punch my details to the O2 registration screen. A couple of minutes later she told me I failed the credit check. WTF?!?!. When I asked her why, she didn’t really know herself since O2 gave a pass/fail answer. A bit more questions from her later and I told her that I’ve only been in the country for about 10 weeks but I did have a job!! No phone cos I had no credit rating? What a bunch of shite! I don’t think I’ve felt this disappointed in a very long time.

It was such a shame too cos after a few days, most of the 16gig iPhones were starting to sell out. I heard that on opening day, all the 16gig versions had sold out for O2 and CPW. Two weeks later after hearing there were some stores had stock and we didn’t have much to do on Saturday (actually we were both recovering from a night [two for me] out on the piss), we decided to pop over to the local O2 and CPW shops. As expected they were both sold out. Doesn’t matter, life goes on so we went to Oxford St to look for speakers, duvet and bed sheets. Oxford St as it is, has heaps of O2 and CPW stores so each time we passed one we’d go in and ask if they had any. Again, as expected they were sold out until we went the 5th or 6th CPW store (Tottenham Court Road) when they told us they had some in stock!! This was so not expected and I was a little shocked they did had some at 4pm!!

When the attendant punched my details into the system I had noticed that he had the start date of where I stayed as since July 2004. When I corrected him on this he told me to shush or I’ll have difficulty in getting the phone. Oh Mr Dodgy phone salesman, I like you very much!! . He was a nice fella who knew the ins and outs of getting someone a phone but I didn’t like the idea that after all that, he was reluctant to get me the phone until I purchased phone insurance or some crappy accessory for the phone. He kept insisting on me making a happy man but I wasn’t into pleasuring men (emotionally or sexually!). After much refusal he finally caved in and gave me the phone!!