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Well, it’s official: I’m over the iPhone. It is pretty, and useful and I’ve enjoyed it very much- but with no multimedia messaging (or other features I need in a phone) in sight, I’m ready to move on.

This decision has been bittersweet, I must say. I LOVE the iPod, Google Maps & instant iTunes downloads. However, I really hate not being able to send or receive multimedia messages. Every time someone sends me anything other than a plain text, this is what I have to do: Go online (with my computer because iPhone also does not support Flash), log into AT&T’s junky-ass, Flash-based “multimedia center” (using a random username and password), then cross my fingers and hope that attempt was successful. Sometimes it is… sometimes it takes several tries. Either way, it’s a big pain in the ass and I’m over having to deal with that.

Another thing I’m “over” having to deal with is my monthly bill. It’s ridiculous. And since iPhone’s have their own plans, there isn’t a lot I can do about it. My bill this month is $123.00. Doesn’t matter… I’m getting out.

So I have already found the phone that makes my heart beat fast. However, said phone costs more than my iPhone did- so I was prepared to wait and save up like a good girl until I could afford it without having to sacrifice Dirty Porn Stars and hot wings. And then a brilliant idea came to me: CraigsList.

There is this nifty little area of CraigsList for bartering. So I posted an ad… My iPhone for My Dream Phone. And today I got an email from a very nice person willing to trade me his very new phone-of-my-dreams for my little iPhone. Yipee! After many email exchanges, the deal was made and it goes down Monday. I can hardly wait. Wish me luck.

Peace and CraigsList happiness.

MAN has today been a happy day for me! First of all, I was messaged early this morning, by the best uncle a girl could have, that there was an iPhone software update. Hoo-RAY! If you know me, you know that I am in a serious, monogamous relationship with my iPhone. I believe I have said before that I love it, and want to have it’s babies. Luckily, the boyfriend is totally ok with this. Excited for me, even.

So I slap the sleepy off myself, fire up my computer and plug my phone into iTunes. I clicked the “check for updates” button and the software update started to download. Yipeeee! Several very anxious minutes later, my phone has cool new features. Since I am not the “read the manual” kind of girl, I go to work playing with it and figuring out what’s different. Since I’m also not the “take your time and be patient” kind of girl, I get online and head over to Macworld for the 411 on what my phone now does:

Cool new mapping features- check. Movable, wiggly icons- check. Add web bookmarks to your home screen- check. Have up to NINE home screens- check. Cool new video features- check.

I am stoked. Completely and utterly. It’s like having a new phone all over again. And I LOVE that my upgrades are FREE. So I get a new and improved iPhone with every new software release. Thank you Apple! I am most appreciative of this because of my past experiences with Motorola- a company that likes to release stripped-down versions of a phone, only to unlock “new” features here and there, and release it again, and again, at a ridiculous price.

So THEN Best Uncle Ever shoots me another message telling me watch Steve Jobs’ 2008 Macworld Keynote Address, to watch him explain the new features I downloaded today. That’s where I learned that I can ALSO send SMS messages to multiple people! This may not sound like a big deal to those with phones that can already do that (all of mine have been able to, up until now) but it was a huge for me, that I couldn’t. What that means for YOU, my friends, is that when I get DUI checkpoint texts, I can pass them on now!

However, I still won’t be passing on those lame-ass “chain texts” that wander into my inbox periodically. Oh, for those of you that I haven’t already told: We’re not 15 year-old girls. Stop sending the “forward this/pass this on” texts. It wasn’t pleasant in my email, and it’s even more annoying on my phone. Please and thank you. However, if any of you feel a very strong desire to annoy me, that you simply cannot fight- you have my permission to call me, yell in the phone and hang up. Or leave me obscene voice mails.

Ok, now my phone is all updated and humming along fabulously with it’s new superpowers. I thought I couldn’t get any more excited by anything (electronic) today. I was wrong. (If you have read any of my posts, you’ll see that I’m wrong a lot.) I’m guessing this was in an attempt to make me cry or something, but Best Uncle Ever sends me another link to another one of Apple’s latest marvels: MacBook Air. Are. You. Kidding. Me. Not long ago, I read about Leah Culver who raised money online to buy a MacBook Pro, by selling ad space on said Mac. I am THISCLOSE to trying that here. I am not afraid to pop a PayPal “Donate” button on my blog and beg for money to buy a MacBook Air. But I’m not gonna. At least not yet.

Soooo… after today’s immersion into all things Apple, I now know that I want to marry Steve Jobs and have baby Macs.