Say hello to Rafa
There is a new addition at Fruit Bytes HQ today. Meet Rafa.
This is, of course, my replacement iPod touch after the wi-fi and battery issues my 11 month old iPod experienced last week. It was hard to come up with a new name for a new iPod touch, given that Oscar was my favourite name. However, I decided to go for Rafa, named after the absolutely scrumptiously hot, sexy, good looking talented tennis player Rafael Nadal who gets Rafa for short. I don’t make a habit of naming my computers or gadgets, infact my iPod touch was my first inanimate object to be named.
UPS took the old unit away last Friday and on Monday I received an e-mail from Apple letting me know they’d received it in their repair centre and were about to diagnose the problem. Within an hour of receiving that e-mail I checked the repair status page and it had moved from ‘Diagnosing’ to ‘Issue identified’. About half an hour after that it moved to Step 3 which was ‘Replacement Product Pending’.
On Tuesday the iPod was shipped and should have arrived yesterday, but due to UPS going to the wrong address I had to wait until late this afternoon for the delivery. It arrived in a spongy box and a letter accompanying the iPod explained that I will get 90 days warranty with this new unit. It also said that it could be brand new or a refurb unit. It looks brand new and had the distinctive Apple whiff, although that’s thanks to the plastic it was wrapped in I guess. Either way it works fine with a strong wi-fi signal – just hoping the battery life on this one will exceed that of Oscar.
Much to my surprise I did not miss the iPod touch at all over the past week. I’ve had it back a few hours and all I’ve done so far is sync a few songs across, some applications and my MobileMe details – now he sits in his dock with me feeling very “meh” about it. Maybe we’ll start to bond after a few days, but it’s taught me that I’m all about my iMac and PowerBook more than I am a handheld ‘computer’. Maybe that realisation will have a big impact on my future decision regarding the iPhone.
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