I got a call from a contact at the Carphone Warehouse today saying that they had a batch of phones in so I dashed up to Oxford Street to pick up one while they were still there. The process of the upgrade is still pretty slow, a huge form which takes (if my experience is anything to go by) over 15 minutes to get approved. No wonder there were serious queues last week. Anyway it all went through fine and I got my nice and shiny new iPhone.
The software of course is old news now that I’ve been using it for a week but the GPS and 3g speeds really make it come alive even more. I’m not sure how much this is rose tinted glasses but the new phone also seems slightly faster to respond for me as well.
I also picked up a set of the BodyGuardz protective film to go over the case of the phone. It works really well to protect what looks like a fairly easily scratched plastic backing to the phone, well worth the 30 minutes effort to get it stuck on neatly and without bubbles.
I already knew that the new phone didn’t come with a dock unlike the first gen version, but I had assumed that the old dock would work with the new phone, not so, and I really used my dock a lot so I picked up a new version of that as well, which is a tad annoying. But so far that is the only annoyance, I’ll be able to test the battery life over the next few days, but I don’t anticipate that being a problem as I plugged in the phone every night anyway to pick up new podcasts for the next day.
Oh, and for all of the people who asked, the old phone has already been reserved by a friend so no hand me downs available here sorry!
Matt White 
Matt,I’m glad you like your new iPhone. I too am one of the lucky ones and I love mine. I hope I like it even more than the original.I also picked up the invisibleSHIELD (it is the only protective film carried by CPW). I got the original invisibleSHIELD on my first iPhone and have it on my iPod as well. I get it for all my gadgets. I’ve learned from painful experience that I need something to keep my toys looking new.Apple has another huge hit with the new iPhone, I think they’re taking over the world! 🙂 I can’t wait for the new iPods to come out in September.Cheers
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