Elizabeth Fish

It has been a while hasn’t it? No excuses really, just a mix of being lazy, and whenever I get round to blogging, something else comes up!

Anyway, let’s talk WWDC. Yeah okay that was just over a week ago now, but Apple is something I’d talk about any day of the week and on a personal note due to that I spent a week trying to get my paws on the new iPhone!

So as the above suggests, Apple announced the new iPhone 3Gs at the conference. Faster, 16/32GB, compass, ability to track if your phone is lost/stolen and then be able to wipe it from a website, putting it VERY briefly. As it happened, my contract ran out the week before the iPhone is released, I was pretty sure what my next phone would be!

One UK mobile retailer (surprisingly not o2) decided the new iPhone was available to pre-order. Hooray! So off I went to set up contract and secure myself one for Friday- as quite frankly I don’t like the idea of getting up at stupid o’clock in the morning to queue outside o2, only to maybe find they ran out of stock. No thank you.

However, this is where I encountered a problem. The house in which I live is a new build, no-one has lived in it before me and my partner. However, neither the council or our letting agency bothered to add it to Royal Mail’s database. So we show up on no database using Royal Mail’s- o2 and this retailer included. So when it came to credit check time, I got declined! I was pretty annoyed seeing as o2 had happily taken my monthly bill from that address, so I went to o2 to complain, who sent me to their customer services line, who told me to call Royal Mail, who told me to talk to the Council, who were helpful enough to put it onto the database for me- which was meant to take 2 WEEKS!

So, pretty annoyed. In the end, with the help of Royal Mail on Twitter, it only took about 3-4 days, so yesterday- iPhone pre-order get! So I will, for those who want it to help make up their mind if they should purchase one, write a nice little review about it on Friday when I return from collecting it.

In other news, congrats to Kelly and Rob Wythe on having their gorgeous baby boy Isaac Oliver Wythe, born June 13th.