As much as I love my Eye-fone, I think that the idea of buying the latest model as soon as it comes out is as monumentally stupid and short-sighted as describing an up-coming evening with Jim Davidson as "entertainment". As much as I can, oh I don't know, check stock prices and launch
a red bird at some green pigs all while on the loo, I'm aware that it isn't perfect. If used often, it has a battery life of roughly 32 seconds, and waits until you're hopelessly lost around Birmingham to tell you "sorry ol' chap, it appears that I need to sleep until I get some more juice", leaving you stranded. It is also mostly made of shiny glass, meaning that it simply won't sit on your leg without one of those horrid green covers that are available, and will inevitably get the
tiniest of marks on the screen. Fixing this, however, isn't as easy or cheap as merely a new screen. Nope, apparently, the whole outside needs to be replaced! Now, I don't want to be "that guy" who calls Apple out on trying to profit from this "mistake", but they're blatantly trying to profit from this "mistake". Whinge aside, it's still a fantastic phone and overall, works brilliantly.
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