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A blurry, mirror-reflected view of the back of my iPhone in its new summer case.
My Eeyore case for my iPhone has seen better days - the picture of Eeyore has started to rub off of the raised area where the belt clip (which I don't use) is supposed to attach. I was starting to feel like it was time for something new, anyway, so I ordered a couple of new snap-on cases. For now I am using this one. The photo is blurry, because I shot it close up in my portable mirror with the iPhone camera - and unlike the fancy new 3G S model coming out this Friday, my near-obsolete original iPhone does not have a macro lens. Anyway, it's a metallic fuschia (deep pink for the color-challenged) with white and glittery-silver Hawaiian flowers. Metallic color, but plastic case. This photo doesn't do it justice, but it is gorgeous. I had also bought a mirrored screen protector to complete the summer look (think mirrored sunglasses), but took it off after only a day. Not only did it show dirt and fingerprints even more than the unprotected screen does, it was impossible to see through in daylight, despite claims that the screen would look "completely normal" when lit up. That was only true in a pitch dark room.
Chris is getting one of those fancy new iPhones, since his current original model (his third physical iPhone, through prior warranty replacements) is on its deathbed and no longer under warranty. Of course, he could have just gotten a 3G for $99, and then I wouldn't have minded so much, since the difference between that and the original is trivial as far as I'm concerned. But no, he had to have the latest and greatest, so I'm sure a week from now I'll be whining about how his phone is so much faster and cooler than mine, and I'll be wanting a new one, but refusing to buy one after paying $300 for mine only a year ago (and not to mention having just bought two new cases which will not fit the new one). Oh well. I'll just have to upgrade mine next year, when Chris will still be locked in to his two-year contract and unable to upgrade without paying the full, unsubsidized price. 
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