Mr. Luigi, Pat, Wibbly le Monde & gmarinov,
My Fellow Troopers your persistence and endurance has finally paid off! IOS 5.1 is like uncocking that fine bottle of wine that has been sitting in the vat maturing to a beautiful blend of dry sweet rich flavour.....although some still might not see it that way.
If they gave medals for Loyalty I would gladly surrender mine to you guys...I would also add if we were at war...you are my kind of peoples...you've got back bone and then some, I would gladly have your backs. We've lost quite a few people along the way whilst treking through this desert storm and thats kinda sad that nothing could be done to convince them otherwise, but we all have the right to chose the path we take.
After reading all your feedbacks and Mr. Luigi finally taking the plunge to upgrade to IOS 5.1 after you guys, it was time for me to get off the bench and jump into the abyss with you all. If it worked, great, if it failed then we would all still be connected by this one grief that has had us bound together since October last year....I guess to quote the famous phrase of the three masketeers it was "all for one & one for all" and so even though my 2nd iPhone 4s was running on IOS 5.0 and seemed ok I decided to jump back into the eye of the stormy seas. Yeah we're a little mad like that...After all Pat had already gone through 5 iPhones & was on his sixth...talk about persistent loyalty!....and like you all have confirmed the phone, mine is also so far is running fine...it has now been running for six hours straight..with all the features on go...wifi, 3G & bluetooth...and all is registering as it should...Infact I would wager to say its running better than ever and I love some of the little new features. Like you can switch off 3G and still have internet access - which increases battery life, atleast on my phone & the fact that its now easier to access your camera and that it has also been tweaked alittle....To me this phone is like the Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bugatti Veyron & Rolls Royce's of this world, when it works, it really works, when it doesn't its the most miserable and most expensive hank of metal to carry arround and you almost dont want to mention to a soul that you own one!
My apologies for this lengthy email but it might be the last one for a while....
I have found some amazing and wonderful human beings in this forum who have showed maturity, patience and a willingness to help out where they could even at the risk of being considered rebels. I was also grateful for the willingness to share, update and encourage that flowed from all over the world into this forrum that became the centre of our universe during this enduring time...it was another show, atleast for me, about how human beings can pool their resources together for the good and betterment of each other when the time arises...in here I found my comrade in arms...even after we all felt a sense of abandonment from the "Father" of the child we were trying to sustain our objective remained to find & keep hounding the parent for the cure.
In closing, I cannot say that this will be the last product from Apple that I will ever buy...although like wise Mr. Luigi said I will probably give the product of choice some time to circulate & research intensively on it before placing my order....
I personally feel that Apple's treatment of this matter, in going silent was a bad judgement call and inexcusable no matter that they finally seem to have cracked it...that, despite how small the number of defective units their might have been in comparison to the total amount of phones sold...we might never know what the real percentage of good versus bad there was...but we know it certainly was big enough to warrant a fix...they should still have taken accountability & maintained integrity by formally addressing matter.
In honesty my staying with this phone isnt because of Apple but because of Steve Job's insight & execution and the unequivical fact that when its firing on all cylinders...its the best phone ever....it just so happens to be an Apple product....
But....that's only My opinion...and to the powers that be....that might not mean much at all..when am still invested in their product...I dont mean that in bad way but its like a marriage gone sour...yet here we still are and grateful to have a fully functioning phone...but not sure about the widowed parent!
To my fellow comrades.....I write you from the Central Eastern Part of the continent of Africa, in a country called Kenya and in the Capital City Nairobi the place better known as "the City Under the Sun" and where Lions still roam freely in the wild of our National Park not too far from where I live....I wish you every happy operational success and thank you all.... as....WE HAVE TOUCH DOWN!
