Drama of the Week: I woke up Monday morning to find a gray stripe down the left side of my iPhone screen, along with some squiggly gray lines at the top. I rebooted and reset it, but the rogue pixels would not go away. It had been just fine when I had used it before going to bed Sunday night, and now it was not.
A friend who works for Apple told me it was likely my LCD was torn and I just needed the screen replaced. The problem: this was a first generation (2G) iPhone, and they don't do screen replacements for them. I've been avoiding buying a newer model, even though I could get a refurbished 3G for just $49, because I want to be able to buy next year's model at upgrade pricing when it comes out. Buying an upgrade now would lock me out of doing so again for eighteen months (unless I want to pay full price - i.e. my first born).
Big sister Dana to the rescue! It seems my timing could not have been better. She had passed her original 2G along to my brother-in-law when she got her 3G last Christmas, and it just so happens that he just upgraded himself... so now that phone is in the hands of its third owner - me! I found it on my doorstep when I got home last night, and promptly began the activation and data transfer process. Now I'm back in business; everything transferred perfectly and it's like the same phone, except the screen isn't borked. Here's to keeping our fingers crossed that this one holds out until the 2010 iPhone release!
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