What will we do with the iPhone 4?

This morning I heard that Apple will be having a press conference to acknowledge problems with the new iPhone 4.

I think this is hilarious.

I love Apple. I love my iPhone. I don’t know if it’s a 3G, or what, but I know it’s not one of the new ones.

What is funny, is that people are complaining that the phone drops calls occasionally if you hold it a certain way. Sometimes, get this, the phone actually tells you (by those little signal indicator bars) that you have a stronger signal available than you actually do!

Oh, the horror!

Can we please get Congress to look into this? (They seem to look into all kinds of stuff these days, and I KNOW they fix 'em!)

I suppose these are people in California, or Chicago, or some such place, and they would probably have a meltdown if you took their phones from them for an hour. Or maybe they are teenagers, and the phones are practically part of their bodies, and they are unable to communicate in the old fashioned face-to-face manner. Oh, what would happen if they couldn’t text someone to say,

“Hey! Lol”

It’s kinda hard to feel their pain here in rural north Mississippi, where, boy-howdy, we are pleased as punch to get more than one teeny short bar sometimes! You can actually make a call if you have that little bar, or even two or three!

It’s a risk you take, I tell you, and for not having to see a cell phone tower every mile or so in the rural landscape, I think I can take it.

Between my home and the largest town in my county where I work, there is a dead place on the twelve mile trip that I have to warn people about, if I happen to be on a call before I travel through it. That means, that nearly daily, or at least weekly, I LOSE A CALL!

If it’s my kids calling me to referee a fight, I’m kinda glad I lost that call.

Sometimes I just pretend I heard the person through the little dead area.

We have lots of dead areas in our county.

I’ve noticed I can’t access the internet at all on the football field of the largest school in the county while I’m photographing a game.

And I can’t even think about using my phone out at the boys’ baseball complex. But out there, I’m with about 300-400 other people who can’t use their phones either, so, that’s a certain comfort. We’re all hopelessly out of touch for sometimes…eeek,… hours at a time!

And, I tell you what! There is nothing better than a trip to Tupelo, or Memphis, where they have 3G coverage or networks or what have you!

It’s enough to make a person want to update their Facebook status at every stoplight.

“Headed to Tupelo to shop! LOL Wooo hooo!”

“Oh, look! O’Charlie’s is too crowded for lunch! What to do, what to do?”

“Wow, had the best lunch at the Mall! Who’d a thought?”

Yeah, I’m so hurtin’ for those folks who are raisin’ a fuss about not actually having all the power their little bars are telling them they have.

Do people realize what they are saying sometimes?