Remember my woeful tale of Bob the iPhone, and his premature demise? Prepare yourselves for Chapter Two: The Death of Jesus the iPhone. Yes, that’s right, my second iPhone officially bit the dust today at the Apple Store. Poor Jesus was pronounced dead about 2:30pm this afternoon. Cause of death: a failed accelerometer (that just sounds like something out of Back to the Future – it actually exists and is an iPhone part, patent pending and all). I went in pretty sure that the prognosis was going to be terminal as I have spent the past few days bringing up web pages, rotating the iPhone to landscape and getting… nothing. Same with Google Maps, and all of the other whiz bang apps that are supposed to seamlessly switch between portrait and landscape. Jesus was trapped, it seemed, in a very narrow view of his world. So my grief was tempered with a fair degree of resignation. I did learn that they have a 14-day return policy – and if you return one (even one that died of natural causes) outside that 14-day window, it must go back to the big Apple Store in the (virtual) sky – a much more involved process. Good to know for the future, given my current track record.

So ladies and gents without further ado, I give you Pip the iPhone!

You may be thinking that he looks a whole lot like Bob and Jesus, but he works, people, which is in my mind a pretty big difference. Here’s hoping the third time’s a charm. If not, well, Nokia phones are going to start looking a whole lot better to me. Not that I don’t enjoy wasting spending my afternoon(s) at the Apple Store’s Genius Bar cooling my heels for the next available genius. So please, please Pip, don’t let me down!!