iPhone 4S!

It was August 2008 when I got my first iPhone 3G. Yes, you read that correctly...I said 2008! When I was eligible for a new phone in 2010 they had just released the iPhone 4 and I was going to get that but my phone was working fine and Scott was a year behind me on his upgrade so I figured I could wait. Well January came around and my phone was freezing up all the time, would run out of battery, would take forever to pull up an app (I mean minutes) so I couldn't really use most of my apps at all. It was a good time. At that point though I was thinking the new iPhone would be coming out in June, so I could wait 6 months. June came and went and then the rumor was August then September then October. When would it end? It's like I didn't even know what a phone could do anymore at a high speed.

Finally my wait was over. I actually set my alarm for 11:55pm to preorder. Yes, I was that fool. Preordering was supposed to open at midnight, but it wasn't actually available until 12:35a. Yes, I was at the computer for that long waiting and waiting. Then due to demand I kept waiting. I got to a certain screen several times (mind you I needed to order 3 separate phones and go through the entire process 3 times) but it just kept loading and loading. So, I ultimately went to the AT&T site to preorder. I got there and got an error. What?!?! It was now about 1:45am. I was exhausted, would be waking up in four hours, and already wasn't feeling fabulous. And now I couldn't preorder the new phone I so desperately needed. Resigned, I went to sleep.

I woke up right at 6:00AM and went back to the AT&T site to find the number it told me to call. To do this I had to go through the preorder process again because I didn't have the number in my phone and with my corporate discount I am a premier customer. Yeah, I'm a pretty big deal. Anyway, as I was going through the process again to find the premier number it actually went through!! OMG! I was so excited. Must have been an error due to so many people preordering. So, I preordered all 3 phones and could only hope that they would arrive on the release date of the 14th!

I can't even tell you how fast I moved when the doorbell rang at precisely 12:47pm on Friday afternoon. I got my phone all set up and ready to go within 15 minutes. It's truly amazing how fast it works. I'm so not used to these speeds and I can't stop looking at it and going to apps. I can actually go to apps now. Plus I have Siri which is awesome. I've asked Siri so many questions, set reminders, set calendar appointments, replied to texts and more. It's so fun. Siri did talk back to me once though. My mom was in the car with me Friday afternoon and she hadn't been able to set up her new phone yet, so I was asking Siri to set me a reminder to take out the trash when I got home. Since Siri uses GPS she just knows these things. This is how she answered. "I'm sorry. I have no idea who you are. In fact, I know nothing about you." Yep, as I'm trying to show off she just talked back to me. Needless to say I made sure she knew who I was going forward. And when I set my reminder again it worked!! I love my new phone. It was well worth the wait.