Well I returned and cracked open my box of iPhones and began documenting the joyous occasion, as I mentioned earlier, I opened up my handset and got to work setting it up and configuring the sounds, checking out the phone section, look at the gorgeous SMS UI. Then it was time to jump online, I was in wifi, but I wanted to test the 3G/GPRS/Edge data speeds and a ‘no internet’ message was displayed. I didnt get too worried at that prospect, it was a new handset, clearly I had missed a setting or something, but a few minutes later everything seemed to be in place and so I called O2, it seemed that my blackberry service request was being processed (which the former operator had forgotten to mention would take up to 24hrs!) and when that was processed I would have to get it switched back to the iPhone service which would take, once again, ‘up to 24hrs’.
Im not entirely sure what is happening behind the scenes there, but Im pretty sure there isn’t a guy at O2 who sits for 24hrs working out how to give my handset the permissions to get 3G data access, so I can only assume that in fact it is an automated process that should only take 24hrs if all the O2 technical support centres in the UK spontaneously combusted leaving all their systems rescuable only by an intimate process of hard drive recovery which can only be undertaken by a computer science graduate who now lives in outer mongolia and now needs to be flown in to deal with the situation. Apparently without hitting the news all of the following has happened in the last 36hrs as I still don’t have any 3G signal, leaving me with a nokia 1 series with a nice touchscreen which reminds of all the things that should work, but don’t. That, was problem 1.
I got home relenting my non-3G iPhone and spent an evening busy with other things, only to go to bed to plug in the iPhone into my already bustling strip plug of chargers and CRACK…a big spark and I had fried the iPhone charger, it refused to charge (I suspect this is just the fuse but it was the straw that broke the camels back)
UPDATE: After changing a few fuses I discovered the charger had in fact been completly wrecked by said spark!
