Did you only speak to the organizer at the end of the task? Was it time pressured? Or did they allow you to complete the task once the correct bolts were provided?
I changed from a good blackberry to an iPhone 5 a month a ago and it has been so much better. Everything you want is just there.
It's so good to have as you never know when you may have the opportunity to take a great photo etc but you always have the choice. The cost of a camera that would take to this quality would be close to the phone value!
You'll get used to the qwerty keyboard soon, just takes a few weeks
I think people don't really 'settle' for the low ep's, the reason people run hopes with 48 is due to many contributing factors. If there was a hope hub or a ffw with higher ep's and had the same qualities of hope's hubs I'm people would run them.