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!
This morning when I rolled over in bed I realised it wasn’t as sunny as it normally is. I peered out through the blinds and saw an extremely overcast sky. “Gee I hope it isn’t going to rain, I’d planned on riding to work today” I sleepily mumbled to Mat. By habit I went to grab my iPhone from the beside table so I could check the weather forecast, only to realise it wasn’t there. “Damn, it’s day 2 of the byePhone challenge” I announced frustrated. Mat merely giggled. And thus my day began.
Since I felt like yesterday wasn’t too bad I decided I was going to challenge myself today. After discovering the weather was going to be fine (via the Bureau of Meteorology website on the PC), I confirmed with Mat that I would ride my bike in. Normally this means that my iPhone would go in the front pocket of my backpack, earphones hanging out so I could listen to music while I rode. Today, I would have my iPod so I wasn’t completely without music. The only problem was that as I was riding in I realised I’d made a stupid choice for a playlist which had some non-favourable songs included. Typically one came on just as I was riding on the downhill/fast bit of the ride to work and I didn’t really want to stop the momentum just to change song (since the button on my iPhone headphones doesn’t work with my iPod). I frowned and kept riding, putting up with it.
After the initial rush of getting the iPhone ready for a week with Mat, the challenge started at 9pm last night – only an hour after the original deadline. The reason for that is while I’m missing the iPhone for a week I want Mat to get the full experience, from receiving a nice clean phone to filling it with wonderful (and sometimes unnecessary) apps. Hopefully by the time next Monday night rolls around he will have seen for himself why I adore my phone so much and will want one for himself.
After I had handed over the phone I started playing with the replacement nokia. While I thought it was a brilliant phone when I had first gotten it (one of the first phones to have inbuilt GPS with maps and turn-by-turn navigation) it just couldn’t compare now. There was no twittering from this phone, no wifi, and no way of easily locating apps to download and install. Of the “apps” that were designed for the phone, 99% of them are games, and dodgy ones at that. I could tell already this phone was purely going to be “just a phone” over the next week.
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