iPhone 3G — brand new, yet with an old warranty

Got my brand new shiny iPhone 3G today. Surprised? I’m not — apparently, this is the way Apple replaces batteries to some iPhones. That’s too bad that they didn’t give me a replacement 3Gs, but there’re no idiots in there, and, perhaps, they have a stock of old phones (you cannot buy iPhone 3G 16GB anymore, only 8GB for 3G version), so it took a couple of days to get a replacement one. Otherwise, reverting my iPhone to Day 0 (even for £55) isn’t such a bad deal at all.