Cause my Applecare Protection Plan is almost up, so I thought I’ll finally bring the dead 320GB original Apple (Seagate OEM) hard drive to swap for a new one.
Two days later, they called me up for collection.
The 320GB hard drive was swapped with a brand new 500GB one. Sweet. It’s another Seagate OEM.
The interesting thing was that
So Thursday I was at my Grandpa’s place to setup his (mine really) “brand new” Original Aluminum iPhone.
After the setup, I called up Singtel as usual to cancel mobile data as after all, what my grandfather really wants is a nice looking phone with a super easy to use chinese input for SMS, not internet on the go.
I dialed 1626, selected the mobile menu, and for some reason, while I always select “0” for “all other enquiries” on other occasions, I decided to enter “1” for “iPhone Technical Support”.
It’s not really wrong I guess, the phone number I am calling about is now on an iPhone.
I dialed “1” and waited.
“Hello? Singtel Customer Service”, the CS Rep said.
The voice was not that of the usually professional sounding Singtel CS phone reps, but more like some random kid, but never mind for now.
Me: “Hi, I’m calling on behalf of my grandfather. I’ve just switched him to one of my old iPhones and I will like you to cancel mobile data on his line.”
Singtel iPhone Technical Customer Service Rep: “Ah? You mean the GPRS ah? Erm… Okay. Wait ah.”
I am not exaggerating the speech. He was really speaking like that. For a Singtel Customer Service Rep.
Singtel iPhone Technical Customer Service Rep: “Okay… I’ve checked, your line don’t have a mobile data package.”
Me: “Right, I know. I just switched him to an iPhone, so I want you to cancel the mobile data or rather GPRS, portion of it. You know how all 3G sim cards have data enabled so they can MMS?”
Singtel iPhone Technical Customer Service Rep: “Oh you mean you want to cancel GPRS.”
Me: “Yes, didn’t I say that just now?”
Singtel iPhone Technical Customer Service Rep: “Erm okay. You wait ah. Erm….”
I can’t believe how long I took to finally get this.
I got my iPhone 4 two weeks ago at the Singtel Midnight iPhone 4 Launch, and it replaced my 3GS as my only phone less than twelve hours after the purchase.
My 3GS had a case (Incase Po on it all the time so I was always just slipping the phone directly into my pockets without any other protection.
The iPhone 4, however, is a thing of extreme beauty. And the last thing I will do to it is to use it with a case (in case you are wondering, there is no iPhone 4 antennagate outside the States. All evidence and news reports from around the world point to AT&T as the problem) that will hide the majority of its beauty, at least for the time being.
So what did I do?
First things first. Power Support Screen Protectors. The Best.
Next, a sleeve.
Instead of purchasing something immediately, I went home, took the old Sumajin off my iPod Video, and slipped my iPhone 4 into it.
One week later, I got so fed up with it that I finally caved in and ordered one of these.
And today it came.
Why a sleeve?