I’m about to retire my original iPhone. My now friend, Matt, had bought it for me back in October 2007, when Alex, Doug and I won an improvised WordPress/iPhone competition. So many things have happened since then, such as my now working with Automattic, this device is actually emotions laden.

The 1st-gen iPhone was never available in Canada, so I’ve had to stay on top of all things jailbreak/unlock so we could even use it. So far, it’s gone through myself until around April 2009, then my wife until about August 2010 when she got her iPhone 4, and finally my oldest son until a few days ago when I received my iPhone 4 and gave him my 3GS.

It’s in perfect working order, but is now unfortunately stuck in the past as it does not support iOS 4 and later.

Our 9 year-old has an iPod Touch and is too young for a phone with voice/text/data. Our 4 year old is just plain too young for it. So it’ll go to sleep for a while, until our youngests are ready for it. If nothing else, it makes for a great iPod, when jailbroken (so it doesn’t require a functional SIM card).

Until then, sleep tight good friend. We shall see each other soon, when you make your inescapable come back, star that you are. :)