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.