She Was Candied Up As Well

After I to my devices updated, it was Anita's turn. She has an old iPhone 4 and an iPad Mini. We managed to sort out the iPhone last night and she had been all candied up today. Tonight, I would be the iPad.

My brother-in-law also updated his iPhone 5 last night and he found that his battery life suffered. Not sure if it was because his emails were being downloaded in the background or something which had to do with the new iOS. Even the forums were buzzing about the matter.

My iPhone had been functioning great so far, and hopefully it stayed that way. My iPad Retina also was AOK. No glitches as yet ......

The Update

So, the update was complete and after restoring the apps and all the rest, the process took nearly 45 minutes. No hitches this time.

It was rather tedious as initially the OS was reset, followed by reloading of all the installed apps. So far, the updates went well. All the apps were in working order.

Next, migration to iCloud.

To My Friend Mr Celcom

After a good year of coaxing, Anita finally agreed to plunge on the iOS route. This followed an incident - an indecent one - with her friends when her phone went dead in the middle of a conversation, and everyone was blaming her trusty old Sony Ericsson. Well, one has to move on with the time.

She agreed to go for an iPhone 4, but only in white. Plus, she has already planned some lavish cover design which would put Paris Holton to shame. During our afternoon out in Pavilion, we dropped by the Celcom Blue Cube outlet there - ironically right opposite a Maxis branch. As we wanted to keep our identical Celcom number, we decided to stay loyal.

It was a Sunday, and only a handful of customers were around, but we still had to wait a good 15 minutes before being served although the sales rep did acknowledge we were there. She went through all the usual shpill about the right package for Anita, and we finally settled form a 32GB white iPhone 4.

Unfortunately, since both Anita's and my numbers were under my name, I had to cancel her numbers account and reregister under her name. Despite coming over to a Celcom branch, the process would take place after 24 hours ad we can only pick up the iPhone the next day. When asked about the logic behind it, there were just no explanation. "That's the rule!". My sore throat prevented me from going further, both in terms of conversation or walking quarter of a mile to Low Yat.

I did not mind the extra time waiting, but being a busy man, I really can't afford another round trip just to pick the phone up the next day. While can't they just bloody remote activate the damn phone. After all, if you pick one up at an Apple Store in the US, the come with an AT&T sim, which would can later be activated on your Mac.

Well, Mr Celcom, I'm sure you don't read complaints, but I think the only way to discourage the linters from buying illegal units would be to trump them at least in terms of customer service. If you can't even offer that, than the monopoly that these telco has certainly is an unhealthy one. It just curtailed retail progress, and made it blinding obvious that all they cared about was the bottom line. It was all down to money. A single subscriber pulling out won't bring them out of business ...... Anita still insist on getting the iPhone 'legally', so I had to just swallow it.