That glass ain’t so scratch resistant. I am bitter, especially since I never actually dropped the damn thing.
4 hrs 19 min use, including over an hour of audio playback, some phone calls, and more or less constant web surfing and social media check-ins, and 50% battery left. and that’s with push turned on for MobileMe and Exchange, and wifi active, and 3G in San Francisco. This massive improvement in battery life and speed, simultaneously, is worth the whole price of the phone. especially considering that it’s pushing a bigger screen.
The bumper case isn’t too big – largely because the phone itself is Keira Knightly thin – but it’s rubberized edges make it difficult to easily pull out of a pants pocket. Not having had the “death grip” experience, I can’t see much difference with/without the case. Looking forward to a screen protector and seeing whether the scratch is concealed by it – which happened successfully with my first iPhone.
I have the distinct sense a lot of people have been rooting for Apple to shit the bed, and now that they sense blood in the water, they are pouncing hard. I don’t really get why people picked now to go the full Silky Johnson, but the lads on 1 Infinite Loop are doing a pretty poor job pushing back – and may be making matters worse. I don’t think they’ve grasped the malleability of reality in 2010, especially in dealing with a media for whom the plural of anecdote is “ultimate truth”.
I’m too old to try to sleep on a futon.