Quit Staring at my busted iPhone! Haven't you ever seen a broken iPhone before?

Life with a broken iPhone.

So maybe the term 'broken' is a misnomer in this case when referring to my iPhone. It certainly works like it should -- taking pictures, answering calls, surfing the internet, and all that stuff that makes the iPhone what it is -- my phone just looks a little beat up and rejected, that's all.

Every time I bust out with this in public, it's no surprise that people do a double take. Obviously it's shocking to see such a fine piece of industrial design ruined with cracks, and shattered glass, it's like keying a slick new car. I would have to look twice if it wasn't me with a broken iPhone.

My excitement over going to Japan back in October is to blame, when I did a giddy hop, and it fell out of my hoodie pocket falling on to the floor of my buildings' parking garage. A day before my flight. Sucks! Damn hoodies, and their loose pockets.

It's been interesting using an iPhone with a cracked glass. When it first broke, tiny shards of glass literally were embedding themselves on my finger. In Tokyo I had wrapped the entire phone with plastic wrap to keep the glass from coming off. Eventually all the looses pieces of glass came off, and now touching the cracked glass isn't a problem, or a health issue anymore.

I looked up different alternatives to sending the iPhone away, like one where you replace the glass with a plastic sheet, but I figured too much work. I can't send it to Apple either, since it's an unlocked iPhone, from the USA, which shouldn't even be in Canada. It was also my brother's phone. If my brother found out I dropped it, he would freak out.

The cracks are most noticeable when the screen isn't lit. As you can see below, it's hardly apparent the screens cracked...

Though, I think I might eventually give in to the evil phone companies, and get a 3G, with the contract, and extra charges. Here in Canada we have a service called fido, and customers accumulate fido dollars, which can be used like real dollars towards the purchase of a handset. I think my fido dollars are getting to the point where I can purchase a 3G. I gotta use them for something.

Anyone else out there drop or damage their iPhones? Join the club.

The Ting Tings Vancouver Plaza Club The Ting Tings - More than an Apple iPod commerical

The coveted Apple ipod commercial never hurt anyone especially Musicians. It definitely put Feist on the map in the USA after having already been an established artist for many years in Canada and Europe. The '1,2,3,4' campaign worked out incredibly well, though you can't say the same for Yael Naim whose track 'New Soul' graced ads for the Mac Air, or for Orba Squara whose song 'Perfect Timing' played in iPhone ads. These artists weren't really rocketed into the spotlight of popular music... And then there were The Ting Tings, and the 'Shut Up and Let me Go' iPod commercial.

Described on their myspace page as Alternative Melodramatic British Pop music, The Ting Tings Jules de Martino and Katie White, rocked out at the Plaza Club last night here in Vancouver -- their first show in Canada -- and proved that they are more than the soundtrack to an iPod commercial. Their sound is fun, their songs are quite catchy, and their energetic performance resonated with the packed audience. Though the show which included an opening act by Anni Rossi was quite short -- The entire show was barely an hour and a half -- The Ting Tings left fans wanting more.

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