Always advancing, never arriving
Today, Apple announced its newest iPhone, the “3GS” version. Basically, it’s the same, except with double the storage, and it can shoot video (not just stills).
Can you tell the difference? Then why be embarrased if yours is the "old" one?
Of course, everyone just HAS to have one. It’s going to be the same price as the current “3G,” which was $199. But since it doesn’t come out until July 17, that means a dismal week or two of iPhone sales leading up to the date.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I’ve been blessed with a brand-new job that’s going to be starting in just a few weeks. So today, I got a sort-of “congratulations” treat, so to speak: the OLD iPhone.
My friend Greg has already excoriated me: You dummy! Why would you do that? Do you watch the news??? Thing is, I honestly never thought too much about having one. Sure, I wanted one, but didn’t really have the need. (And, honestly, does anyone really NEED such a thing?) But circumstances have changed, and so now I have the iPhone. The “3G” one, not the “3GS” one.
It cost, by the way, just $99 — a $100 price drop, today, as the new “3GS” was announced. In other words, I just got a really cool phone/gadget/thing, something far more advanced than the Sony Walkman phone I have been using, and it cost $100 less than it would have had I gotten it yesterday.
So, no. Come July 17, I won’t be drooling over your new iPhone, the one that shoots video and has twice as much space and comes with a built-in compass (I didn’t go camping pre-iPhone, I’m sure not going now). I’ll be perfectly happy with my old iPhone — because it’s incredibly new to me.
Tags: Euphone, greater risk of testicular cancer, iPhone 3GS, price drop
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June 11th, 2009 at 5.23 pm
New Jesus phone will be out June 19th so you can not get one on that date. I was holding off to see what Jobsy would break out on this new edition. I am currently slave to the Blackberry but after seeing this incarnation I will be staying with the BB, the digital compass did not push me over the edge!
June 11th, 2009 at 5.30 pm
You have to have one to understand, though… I find it extremely easy to send emails and text and stuff… but there are so many killer apps that just work, there’s virtually no load time on most of them.
If I were you, I would switch. But I’d go for the $99 version, as I did. Once the new software comes out (alongside the new iPhones), these $99 versions will be virtually identical to their new brethren, only with half the hard drive space and no video camera (big deal). All the other major changes are software based and will update old and new iPhones alike.
Another thing: the iPhone data plan is cheaper than the BB one, Apple convinced ATT to make a special deal supposedly.
Let’s grab lunch again soon… I have much to tell.