My wife bought us tickets to the “The Fred” in Peachtree City, Georgia.
Bryan Adams was performing, and hordes of females had packed themselves into the venue ready to undertake the usual concert antics of throwing underwear in his direction. I like Bryan Adams for one reason only, his hit “Summer of 69.” As the croaky voiced crooner hit the stage and was about to begin his rendition of said hit, I whipped out my iPhone 4 16gb and negotiated to my video camera. What I failed to consider was Georgia’s 95 degree heat. I hopelessly watched my iPhone 4 slip through my grasp and land in my inconveniently placed bucket of ice cold beers. The stage lights went out and I was left frantically scrambling around for my drowning iPhone in pitch black darkness whilst thousands of people were clapping and cheering.
Nightmare!
Immediate thoughts raced in my mind. How much would it cost to repair? Can I afford to repair it? Did I need it? There was only one answer and it was proven 2 minutes later when I realized I was in the middle of nowhere without my Motion X GPS Drive application to guide me home.
The iPhone has it all in terms of specs. I email and Skype with family in England, social update, use my calendar and diary, GPS my routes, take photo’s (and record occasional concert videos), check football scores and browse EBay. It’s a modern day Swiss army knife without the blade (iPhone 5 anyone?)
I negotiated with my wife by sulking all the way home. A “discussion” before bed meant a sleepless night and I awoke expecting a one way ticket back to London.
Having lost a phone to a pint of beer before, I didn’t expect anything but a flicker of the screen and perhaps some discharge akin to that of a rock concert smoke machine when I plugged the iPhone into the wall. Fortunately the shock wasn’t an electric one. IT WORKED.
I am sure this is not one of Apples main selling points, but I would definitely look at any phone that boasted “can survive 6 second submersion in beer and water.”
The iPhone 4 is set to be replaced by the iPhone 5 in the near future if you believe the rumors, but I will be a tough audience to convince when it comes to switching.