iPhone 1.0 is Good Enough for Me

I have a weakness. I am addicted to technology. I peruse weekly ads looking at the newest and fastest computers just in case my computer suddenly becomes inadequate. I go to Best Buy “just to look” at all the wonderful new digital cameras so tantalizingly on display. I have Ars Technica, Gizmodo, IGN, and many other tech news feeds funneled to me directly via Google Reader and I check for updates several times a day.

I realize I have a problem and they tell me that is the first step.

Google Reader was checked a few more times than usual on Monday during the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2008, the event which at which Apple would pull back the curtain on the new iPhone 3G.

As mentioned in a previous post, I have only recently become an iPhone user. I can’t really say how or why I held out as long as I did, only that for some reason it never really clicked with me. As much of a tech-whore as I am, the original price of the thing was simply too much. $599 for 8GB of memory? Thank you, no.

Nearly a year later, for some unknown reason, I walked into an AT&T store and went home with an 8GB iPhone for $399, knowing full well that a new version was just over the horizon.

Back to the announcement. Apparently Apple and AT&T have decided to sell the new iPhone at a subsidized cost of $199 for an 8GB and $299 for a 16GB. At first this sounded oh-so-bittersweet to my tech-hungry ears. But here’s the thing. The new “faster” 3G network will come at a premium and instead of paying only $20 a month for unlimited data and 200 text messages included, I would get to pay $30 a month with zero text messages included. And according to Steve Jobs’ key note speech, the iPhone 3G speed is only roughly 2.5 times faster than the current iPhone’s EDGE speed. Again, thank you, no.

By the time my newly re-signed 2-year contract with AT&T is up people will be clamoring for the iPhone 4 which of course will have a 12 MP camera, a 320GB solid state drive, will actually have the ability to send and receive MMS, and will brew your morning coffee. All of this will be mine for just $49.99 and a new 7-year contract.