3G iPhone now or later

I wasn’t going to spend any time posting on this subject. There has been plenty of blog space dedicated to it, especially since WWDC and quite frankly, I learned my lesson the first time around.  The fact that the new firmware will be available to my current iPhone is really what has me excited.  I can’t wait to see what apps are available and yeah, I’ll be purchasing a game or two as well.  So why am I even spending any time on this subject? 

Over the past couple weeks I have been asked the same question over and over…"So..are you gonna get the new iPhone :)"  The wink is because all last year from the release, I was saying to my friends that by next year we’ll see the 3G version.  Of course the more I looked at the phone, the more obsessed I became with it.  Ultimately, my wife bought one for me for our anniversary (albeit a 4gig model but an iPhone none the less).  And to re-iterate, this is by far the best mobile phone I have ever had.  I make that statement based solely on the fact that even after a year, I don’t have the itch to get anything new.  The typical life span of a mobile phone for me is 6-9 months and then its time to get something new.  I simply just get bored and dissatisfied with he user experience of most phones. 

So why am I not getting in line?  Simple,  I still really like my current phone.  But here a re a few other reasons.

• I’m not sold on the plastic back of the 3G version (I tend to drop my phones).
• $20 for my current data plan is too much and I think $30 is worse, especially without SMS included or included tethering capability.
• I think we’ll see a big price drop some the holidays and/or we’ll see a new model with more capacity so we can really take advantage of the plethora of apps being developed.  The one thing that that really stick out for me and I haven’t seen anything written up about is the fact that the phone is a bit thicker in the back.  Presumably this is to accommodate the larger battery and GPS module.  Now lets back track for a moment, the reason the 1st gen can’t get above the 16g capacity is because there is no space for the added memory chip like there is in the Touch.  Well, now there would seem to be more space, so maybe there will be one by the holidays which would be in line with how Apple has been releasing updated models to its line over the past 2 years.

Sara over at pop17.com put up a great video on this subject and I think it summed up how I was feeling on the whole buying a 3G iPhone question.  Of course, after it’s out who knows what I’ll end up doing.  Last year I lasted about 60 days.

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