While looking about one of the many iPhone site's I found this brilliant post. Well the whole thread was great. But I don't think folks would like me posting that and the site here.

Hopefully others here will enjoy this excerpt also.

i've said it before, and i'll say it again:

1) GPS...worthless, I already have a stand alone gps in my jeep already. Any cell phone gps is worthless. I had a 8800 blackberry or whatever the top of the line model was. GPS..never used once. To top that off the data usage u will use will cost you BIG bucks. So this addition is worthless

2) 3G...... ???? ... all I can say is .. WOWWWW.... WHO CARES. When I'm at home I will surf the internet UNLIMITED and download UNLIMITED via speeds 10x faster than 3G. When I'm at a bar with friends, iPhone turns into a 'cell phone'. Voice calls only.... When I'm driving .. no need to browse. When I go to work, no time to browse. When I go to a coffee shop during lunch break...cry me a river...I don't need no extreme speeds.. this is 'casual' browsing just to pass time by. What is the point of 3g? I don't get it. It helps me in no way, and everyone that I've spoken to that I know feel the same way.

So bottom line. Those crying about the 3g phone not having all these extra upgrades. Live with it. All this is, is the 2g iphone with 3g capability and a few little goodies added in to entice you to waste more money. Apple is NOT making the iPhone 2nd gen. So with all the requests you hoped would have been added...if they're not added in the 2nd generation iphone, THEN you can whine about it. But for the time being, this is like iPhone generation 1.5...

Let me give you whiny babies another example:

It's like buying a TV with the model 5080 that only displays 720p, or buying the 5010 model that displays 1080p. Same generation, just that the 5010 is the upgraded model with better features. You won't get what you 'really' want until the next gen comes out.......... end of story.

As someone already said. 3g is a marketing ploy...AND IT'S WORKING! End of story. Way to go apple, double your money! If I knew the iPhone would be a hot product and KNEW 3g was the future, I'd release it first as a 2G model...make MILLIONS. Then I'd release the 3g model that was probably planned to be released just after the 2g was released, but was never announced so they can make WAY MORE MILLIONS. After this novelty wears off, they'll sell the iPhone 2 which will make more millions. Like it or not, thats business. I've always laughed at the requests for front camera for video calling etc. Sure, without front video camera, how can u really do video calling..whether you have 3G or not? You can't. That's why apple will wait until the next gen to impliment that, because now they will just give you a 'taste' of the 3g for browsing, so all the hundreds of thousands of suckers that want to get '3g' just so they can be 'with the best out there'........... and when the next gen comes out all you sheep will sell your 3g phones on eBay to get the 'latest and greatest'. You think this hasn't been planned out already???

There's so much market research that goes on behind the scenes that so many people think that they will cry about something and get what they want. They don't truly realize that these companies care NOTHING about what you want. All they care about is 'if we do it this way, will we make the most money, and will there be any way to improve our product in the future to bring the same people back to us to give us even more money than we made the first time'. End of story

I know for most of you this is obvious. But some people's comments that I've read, have been almost in shock that certain features were not added. There's NOTHING to be in shock about at all. This is pure and simple reality in business. Learn it, and if you REALLY want to show a company that they can't treat you like sheeps, DO NOT BUY THE PRODUCT, and that is the ONLY time they will listen. Unfortunately, the amount of sheeps out there far outweigh the ones that want to stand up and 'make' the corporation listen to us, so in the end the big business wins...each and every time. Read the history books

iPhone, not iMac (or iTablet, iDevice).

The phone is the most important part to me. I'll be buying a 3G one not for the 3G, but really for the "new" design (which really isn't new) - in glossy black, baby.

My 1c.

+1

Totally agree, all these blamers, complainer or explainers, You go Apple, make billions of dollars, almost feels like WA, where money seems like it isn't an issue, give me what I want NOW mentality.

I'll get the phone when it arrives, why, cos I am an Apple user, and i want a phone that actually synchs with my MBP! Thats all, nothing more.

I don't need to defend my technology purchases to anyone

I'm using a Nokia 3310 so I need a new phone!

I still don't get the "this piece of technology doesn't suit my needs, so I'll devote my life to attack it, and whoever buys it" attitude.

This is the typical idiotic approach that "It doesn't work for me therefore it doesn't work at all".

That type of approach makes most things redundant, so using the same logic, I don't drive on dirt roads therefore all 4x4's are redundant and not necessary, or I don't have a need to carry around a computer therefore all notebooks are redundant.

Its really quite idiotic and clearly the author has the IQ of a brick.

apple...pack up.. this guy has got you figured out, done and dusted. Remove the iphone from the market not worth it...too many people want one so it must mean a horrible product...i hang my head in shame.

Walt Mossberg eat your heart out

I agree. I just don't get why this product instills such heightened negative emotions in people.

Just trying to downplay the publicity Apple enjoys over its competitors. And Apple doesn't have to do much in terms of marketing. Gotta love Apple as a company!

Another thing - we don't even have access to the first gen phones here - so why belittle us for wanting to buy the only iPhone available to us (through normal channels).

So, Reading between the lines, your going to make do with your old iphone? .........And we won't be seeing you in the 3G threads in future?

1 - I don't have a GPS unit, so I'm looking forward to v2 w/GPS

2 - When I'm out and about the more speed the better.

The TV point - If I'm after a 1080p panel, and it has 1080p panel, what do i care it it has the previous models plastic? it's still a 1080P panel.

Apple went 2G because the US has more infrastructure in place than 3G. But shit gets upgraded with better gear dude. Live with it.

And given the choice i'd rather have no videoconferencing until a better battery is developed, with GPS, 3G, Video's, Wifi, Cameras running regularly the current battery wont last long.

That original poster gets a big FAIL in my book.

Wow if you upgrade it will be revolutionary!

Weird how a 6 year old mobile is so out of date, yet still works as a phone just fine.

My 3120 feels so modern in comparison..

Well, duh! Does the original author really think Apple are in business to provide everything you want and charge you as little as possible?

FFS. July 11th couldn't come any sooner.....