in which I show off my new toy.

Look, I got an iPhone! I’d been coveting one for a long time, but had to wait till this week for my contract with T-Mobile to end. For some reason, I’d been getting a lot of “no service” on my Blackberry, mainly at work–I’d be sitting at my desk and the service would just disappear, then come back later, randomly. It’s kind of annoying to try to text when the network is all wonky like that. Anyway, hopefully AT&T’s network will be more reliable. Hopefully.

I’ve had my iPod Touch for several months, and it just spoiled me. I knew I wanted to get the iPhone, especially since I’m always on my iPod for Twitter, email, web, etc. It just made sense to get rid of the Blackberry and have one device that does everything, in addition to a camera and all the other cool stuff.

I bought the iPhone at my local Apple Store–the only Apple Store within 100 miles or so!–and I’m so glad I did. I wasn’t sure if I should go there, or to an AT&T store, but the general consensus seemed to be that the Apple Store had better customer service. I’ve been there in the past, to the Genius Bar when I had my MacBook woes a couple years ago, and they were always really wonderful. This time, I was helped by a girl who was really friendly, but it also turns out that she’s a crocheter, too! (I told M it figures that I would find the one crocheter in the whole store at the time.) She was trying to get me to subscribe to MobileMe, and saying that she uses hers to upload pictures and crochet patterns, and that’s when I mentioned that I crochet (and knit) too. I asked her if she’s on Ravelry, and she is, but I didn’t get her username.

Anyway, after that she had to move to the register, so another employee finished my phone setup. He ported my T-Mobile phone number over without any issues–it only took 15 minutes or so for the port to complete, really fast! I was worried that it might take a couple hours, but it didn’t. After that, the same guy helped me find a case–I’m so paranoid about my devices and potentially dropping them, and I wound up getting a Speck CandyShell.

After that, M and I had to go to T-Mobile to do a Change of Responsibility on the account, since I had been the primary account holder and ours was a family/shared plan. The girl at T-Mobile was really nice, too–I was worried she’d be mean since I told her that I ported to a different carrier, but she wasn’t at all. She put us in touch with corporate customer service, we got everything transferred over, and she fixed M’s insurance when the phone rep forgot to transfer it over. We had pretty good service at both the Apple store and T-Mobile, so I was glad about that!

I’ve been downloading apps the past couple of days, mostly productivity, social networking, and music related. I don’t play too many games. If you have any good app suggestions, let me know! I did install the WordPress app, so maybe that will encourage me to blog more than once or twice a month? We’ll see.