iPhone makes iAngry!

Let's start with a little history shall we. Before my iPhone I had a Sony Ericsson W800i. Wonderful little phone. It did everything you could ever want a phone to do, and more. I had this phone for close to 3 years, and loved it. It never did me wrong.

However, like most thing, the poor little guy got old and tired, and eventually stopped working as well as he once had, so I decided to get a new phone.

I didn't want just any old phone though. I want a decent phone. A respectable phone. A posh phone. Of course the iPhone was one that attracted my attention straight away. Everyone raved about this fantastic Apple creation. I decided I would see my contract out with T Mobile, and then see if I could blag myself a decent deal, otherwise it would be bye bye T Mobile, hello respectability.

So, my contract came to a close, and T Mobile decided they didn't value my continued loyalty anymore, and offered me what can only be described as a dog turd of a new contract. I wished them farewell and headed to the O2 store.

I had a look at the iPhone deals on offer and they were, well, appalling. I decided to try and use my "legendary" charm on the saleswoman to try and snag a better deal, but that failed and I signed an 18 month contract, paying £35 a month for 600 minutes and 500 texts.

So that's how I came to own my iPhone. But where did it all start to go wrong I hear you cry? I'll start with the beginning. Trying to get the sim card into the phone.

Prior to me getting the phone, I hadn't known anyone else who had one, so I had never seen anyone remove or insert a sim card. I had a quick glance at the phone after taking it out the box, and couldn't see any noticeable home for my sim. I decided to consult the manual!

Or I would have, had the phone come with one. I was stuck. With a phone and a sim card, still living in separate houses. After 5-10 minutes of detective like investigation and "f**cking hell's" I decided to admit defeat, and looked to the Internet for help.

I found it. The way to access the slot for your sim card is to push a paper clip (or similar) into a small hole at the top of the phone. This pushes out a sim shaped compartment to house your beloved sim. I put this down to a newly wed spat over where the plates should be kept, and began to search my phone.

The first two weeks with my iPhone were like something from a sit-com. It was a whirlwind romance. I downloaded apps left, right and center. (Free ones obviously. Don't forget I'm paying £35 a month for this thing!) It's safe to say, I was smitten. The iPhone could do no wrong in my eyes. But, alas, that two weeks soon ended, and the latest addition to my life was starting to test my patience.

The first thing to go wrong, was my charger. This thing decided it would just stop working. For no reason at all. A bit like a bus driver. This meant I had to charge my phone using the computer. I connected my phone, and it asked if I wanted to sync it with my computer.

"Why the hell not?!"

Famous last words. The sync failed, and the 5 pages of apps I had downloaded were gone. More "f**king hell's". To add to this, the battery life that you receive from charging your iPhone through a computer, compared to if your mains charger is working, is incomparable. I basically looked at my iPhone for too long and the battery was gone. Thanks.

Here's another one. Do you often find yourself a bit peed off with someone? Or just not in the mood to speak to someone when they ring? Well usually you would hang up on them right? Not with an iPhone you don't! When it's locked, it's actually an impossibility to hang up on someone. Sigh.

What else annoys me? That's it! My case! Obviously when you have a decent phone, you want to keep it looking good. I thought this, and baught a case. However, my case is special. If you have your phone on silent, and you then slide the phone into the case, it nudges the silent button forward ever so slightly, TAKING IT OFF SILENT! The amount of times my phone goes off in lectures and other inappropriate moment because of this is unreal. "Just buy a new case Lee". Have you seen the price of cases? Poo off then!

Texting. On a particularly long text, most phones will tell you when you have started a new text message. The iPhone doesn't. I found this out the hard way when I got a text off O2 telling me I had gone £30 over my allowance, and if I was aware of this. "NO I AM NOT AWARE OF THIS!" (I cleaned that up slightly for you all.) This is probably more down to O2 than the iPhone, but if the iPhone had told me how many texts I was sending at once, this mess would have been avoided.

So, these are just a few of the main reasons why I hate the iPhone. Sure it does have some good points. The phone is actually very good. It's clear and loud. The loud speaker is also very decent.

Also, one of the reasons I bought the phone was to make people go "oooo, he's got an iPhone. He's a bit good," and credit where credit's due, it does do that.

Overall then, I realised soon after I got my iPhone that it is a novelty. Sure it comes with an iPod built in, and the ability to download an app to tell you what your best sex position would be. But I have an iPod. And I don't have sex.

Therefore, if you were thinking of getting an iPhone, then I would say don't. You would be much happier with a simple phone, that does what a phone is supposed to do, and won't cost you a million pounds a second for a handful of texts and a courtesy call to your mother.

I know I would be.