My New iPhone

In my family, you can get a phone during the Christmas of 7th grade. That rule followed for both of my brothers, but when my parents decided to separate and get divorced, it made sense for me to get my phone early, since the new homes were not going to have the landline phones. I'm in 6th grade, so I got my first phone a year early. My iPhone, that is. :)

Here's how the whole 'iPhone' thing came in the picture all of a sudden. A few years ago, my dad got the iPhone 3G. Of course when he got it, that was the best iPhone they had. Now they have the iPhone 3GS. Anyway, he thought that everyone in the family should get one. I don't really know why, but apparently having one big happy phone family plan, we save money. So the Saturday that my mom was moving out to her house, we left around 6:00 AM to go to the mall. Of course, the mall doesn't open until 10:30 or so. So what do we do driving about until the mall opens? First we go and have breakfast out. I had chocolate chip waffles and sausages with syrup. The rest of the time remaining for the mall to open was covered by the time it took to drive to get there.

The little AT&T island hut station thing didn't open until 11:00 or something, so we shopped elsewhere like The Paper Store and Game Stop.

Once the little AT&T island hut station thingy finally opened, we walked down there and made a little order for 5 iPhones. 2 iPhone 3Gs (parents) and 3 iPhone 3GSs. (kids) Getting a phone is fun, but not during the process of the whole thing. I don't know what takes the people so long, but it's so boring. Thankfully, Claire's was close by, and while the AT&T dude was talking to my dad and he's going like 'Mmm... mmhhmm.. yaa.. ok.. uhhuh.. go on...' I'm like signaling pointing to me then the store then my purse to show that I was shopping there and he nods yes. I run off to the girly world. I was there for such I a long time that my brother eventually came in and was like, 'Hey come pick your phone number.' That's probably the only fun part.

I ended up getting a white 16 gig iPhone, which I was very satisfied with. We had lunch after that at T.G.I. Friday's, and while we where waiting I was so excited to explore the everything on the phone. We where texting back and forth, taking cool pictures, and I'm just like, 'What's this? Huh? Why? What's that??" Because it's my first phone - I don't know what the heck everything is and I can see that my brothers are trying not to roll their eyes. It was clear they where jealous that I was getting my phone a year and 4 months early, plus my first phone was the hottest phone out there.

Turns out I have unlimited texting. Woohoo! I didn't find out until a few months after we got the phones, because all my friends kept asking. I asked my dad and he's like, "umm.. well, I don't know. I will check online later." and then during Thanksgiving when my uncle came he's just like, 'Hey! I heard you got iPhones. Sweet! Unlimited texting, too!" Then later he was like, "woops.. I shouldn't have mentioned the texting part..." LOL!

For you others who might have iPod Touches or iPhones, here's a list of sweet games and other apps and not so sweet apps:

Sweet apps:

1. Doodle Jump (I don't have it but I heard it's really great. Under the awesome apps list it goes.)
2. Papijump and other Sunflat games (A bouncing red smiling face. Who doesn't love it??)
3. Emoji Free (Exact same as Emoji 0.99 version. Brighten someones day with a yellow smiley face!)
4. Color splash (This is sick. Choose a photo and make it all black and white then colorify a detail!)
5. Backgrounds (All the amazing backgrounds of your dreams in this very app.)
6. FS5 games (Simple and fun. My favorite is the air hockey.)
7. Tap tap revenge 2.6 (Play online and download songs for free!)
8. Doodle buddy (Read about my adventure with this amazing app in a future post.)
9. Jelly Car (I LOVE the sound affects. Boing jgjgj bloing! So funny.)
10. Mad Libs Lite (one round takes forever to do but it's so worth the funny story at the end.)
11. Ifarm (It should be called IFarm Lite- the real Ifarm should have animals. Not a bad game though.)
12. Traffic Rush (I would be the worst traffic police person EVER. My best record is like 10 sec. LOL)

Not-So-Sweet Apps:

1. Sally's Spa Lite (it only takes about a minute to finish the LITE version, then it keeps asking you to buy the full version for like $5!)
2. Bubblewrap (it's really fun once or twice, but it just gets boring after the 3rd round.)
3. Dum Dums Flick-A-Pop (What's the point of this game? No high score... at least it was free.)
4. 20Q FREE (It only lets you think of animals and minerals which are really easy to guess.)