Yesterday marked the years anniversary of my iPhone purchase. To celebrate this momentous occasion I went out and got an upgrade to the iPhone 3GS which only involved a one off payment of £50 as I on the ‘business frequent user’ contract.

How my phone looks. (not my actual phone)

I got home to be disturbed by a strange yellow tint to the phone’s software. I started freakin out a totally Rainman kinda way.

Anyway, It just so happened that me and the Mrs were going back to the shops later on that day so I popped into the o2 shop to have a word with them about it. The guy looked at it and kinda dismissed it as me being pedantic.

I though: OK. Fair enough. I’m a bit of a Monica when it comes to technology.

I went home. It just kept annoying me. Then went online, as every geek does, to see if there was some sort of fix for the problem. I came across this thread. It got my blood boiling a bit and decided that I would go to the Apple Store in the morning.

In the morning I drove into Glasgow. The ‘Genius’ staff said it was within specifications and I had to accept it as normal.

F**k.

On the way out the door a member of the Apple staff came up to me and said that if you still feel annoyed by it and want a change then go to the o2 store you bought it from and see if they will replace it.

I did that. The woman in the o2 store was very understanding, compared the screen with the iPhone’s in the store and agreed to replace it. Success.

(NOT)

I went home, opened the case and noticed that it was exactly the same on this one too.

Double F**k.

Looks like I’m gonna have to accept this a bad decision by Apple for their 3GS firmware. Its not as bad as the first one I got but it is still enough to be noticed by crazy old me.