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Just like that it’s over. Well, that’s how it feels anyway. It honestly feels like it was only yesterday that I was stressing out like mad trying to get the iPhone wiped ready for it to be surrendered. I wasn’t home when the deadline passed tonight, and when I got home I actually went and sat on the couch with Mat for half an hour before I decided it was time to tackle the task of reclaiming it. I didn’t whisper sweet nothingness into it’s microphone, and I haven’t secretly kissed it in private either. Has our relationship changed forever?! Queue the bold and the beautiful music please.

So what have I learned this week?

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Today, again I didn’t feel the absence of my iPhone despite Mat’s sisters best intentions. Upon taking the phone from Mat, she took photos and even contemplated surfing the web (I stopped her since Mat doesn’t have data included in his plan, and I didn’t want to pay an astronomical fee for the usage). Mat’s brother in law even joked about using it to check the football scores earlier in the day (they wouldn’t have had a clue how). I have reached the point where I don’t feel a stab of pain seeing other people use it, but rather an excited anticipation of when I get it back. The count down is on!

The “worst” moment of the day (if you can even call it that) would actually be right now while writing this post. The iPhone is less than 30cm away from me on the desk while I write this blog post. Completely unattended, sitting there solemly. Mat’s finally had to charge it up – the power bar turned red this evening. I think the battery meter is highly symbolic of whether Mat should invest in an iPhone; he simply doesn’t need it. I think he’s managed to extend the life of that battery in one week more than I ever thought possible. Indeed, anyone who actually uses an iPhone daily would echo my thoughts: a battery lasting longer than 2 days? Impossible!

There is 20 hours until I will have the iPhone back in my grubby hands. I expect the first day or so that I have it back it will be like a novelty and I will be unable to put it down, until eventually it works its way back into being an integral part of my existance. It’s a bit scary that such a small piece of technology could have so much of an impact on my life. But still, I’m looking forward to welcoming it back with open arms, with iTunes ready to restore it back to the life it once led. Oh iPhone, where for art thou iPhone?

Today was scary. I thought it would be a relatively easy day, but now I’m fearing the worst. I have nothing to report! I didn’t miss my phone today! Have I slowly begun my decent into forgetting just how amazing the iPhone is? At least I can look forward to rediscovering its greatness when I’m honoured with it’s ownership in 48 hours.

Mat has still not charged the phone yet, and the power bar is now on half. That’s insane. If he hasn’t charged it by the end of this challenge I will be absolutely speechless. He has a god phone in his hands, and he chooses not to unleash it’s power. As Derryn Hinch would say, shame shame shame.

I’m on the home stretch now, not long to go.

I expected today to be the hardest day of them all. I would be jogging home from work, and would also be visiting a friend who just got a brand new iphone 3gs. True enough, when I realised I would be jogging home without my iphone, I began stressing about a replacement music player. My 80gb ipod classic wasn’t ideal to go jogging with (at the risk of killing it), and there was no way I wanted to jog without music. Diving through my desk drawers I hoped there was a chance I still had the nokia handsfree kit (the nokia has the ability to play fm stations). I didn’t find the headset, but instead found a small 1gb Telstra Velocity mp3 player I had received while working at the UDIA Congress in Brisbane a few months earlier (thanks @JonoH). I almost wet myself with excitement when I realised I had music. That moment was the first time I’d truly felt the pressure of going without my iphone.

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Day 3 didn’t really provide too many challenges- I drove to work and drove home, had my ipod to listen to music during the day, and didn’t make many calls on the nokia. This afternoon I had to pick up Mat from work, and spent 5mins waiting in the  car for him. Normally this is prime iPhone usage time, but occupied myself playing a marbles game installed on the nokia. I did feel  the usual “it’s just not quite the same” feeling, and I’m pretty sure that had I waited any longer I would have become bored and frustrated, however the nokia managed to keep me entertained for a few minutes at least.

Tomorrow night should be a bit more difficult though. Actually, a LOT more difficult. I’ll be visiting a friend’s house for some drinks & social time, and unfortunately (well, for me anyway)  they just recently purchased a brand new iphone 3gs. I’ve been dying to see one of these in action, so the fact that I will be in such close proximity to it and yet unable to even look at it without failing the challenge will kill me. I know there are a few of my twitter followers (no names @gcboi) who will be extremely eager to find out how I fared. Knowing my friends, I’m pretty sure they’ll take every opportunity to stir me up about it.

Mat informed me this morning that even after two days of “usage” the iphone’s battery is still a bit over 3/4 full. I have never been able to achieve that in the entire time I’ve owned the iPhone, so it really shows just how little he’s been using it. He hasn’t even bothered to install any additional apps! I had to tell him how to delete a text message tonight, however you can see that he’s become a lot more comfortable with using it in just the way he handles it. There might be positive signs on the horizon yet that he would be interested in getting one, but whether he would use it to its full potential remains to be seen.

Lastly, there are no exciting or funny moments to report. Stay tuned for tomorrow night’s post where I will let rip on how nasty my friends are for teasing me and just how difficult it was to not play with the 3gs. I’m almost halfway through the challenge now though, and I’m determined not to fail! 4 days to go!