Not the iPhone 3G, just the original iPhone.

I had been waiting for the originals to go down in price as soon as the 3G model became available. I figured that everyone would be scrambling to sell their old model at around the same price as the new one, as to not incur extra costs in the new phone.

This was an incorrect assumption. Even now iPhone 2.5G is selling for $300-400 on eBay. What in the world? Thus, I knew the only real option to get my hands on one was to purchase it from someone selling a 4 GB model. Frankly, that's all I really need at this point, and it's easy enough to change out playlists whenever I need to listen to something new.

Personally I think the old iPhone is just as good. Some love the 3G model, some hate it. But the original has been a proven model that has the same exact firmware as the new one, just without faster internet or GPS.

And really, that's fine for me. The way my schedule is, I'm either at home or work, both of which have fast Wi-Fi connections. Between point A and point B, I commute and don't need internet. As for GPS, I still have Google Maps which triangulates an approximate position for me.

So why would I need to pay a bunch of extra money for the new one? No point -- right now, that is.

I can still download the best games and apps from the App Store. I can still get my corporate email. I can even import SIM contacts now, which I couldn't do on the iPhone before 2.0 came out. Firmware 2.0 has all the goodies I need.

There you go. I got a great deal, and have an awesome phone. And I'm perfectly happy with not having the 3G yet.

I know quite a few of my readers and passers-by don't really care about the iPhone. Too much hype, they say. Big whoop. But I have to say that before 2.0 it was a cool and amazingly innovative phone; after 2.0 it became a much more relevant phone.