It's always painful getting the first iteration only to see better versions appearing in the following years. I type this on my MBP 1.1 that was 3 years old in March. Current models take more RAM and have faster CPUs as well as larger drives. Similarly, I have a 17 month old Motorola Q9h that I bought because I didn't want to get an iPhone v1; already burned once. The Q9h is great in many ways but the yet-to-be released WM 6.5 will not run on it or just about any other current WM phone. Even though the iPhone is likely to change again and dramatically in 2010, I'm thinking I'll be getting the 3GS in July and hope that I will not be too envious next June. After all, now OS 3.0 gives the iPhone cut & paste and voice dialing like nearly all other phones. Whatever the cutting edge device/technology, it will always get better in the future. One just has to be prepared to let go and move on eventually no matter how good a thing was when you first got it.
YMMV --- "I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back." ~ Ann Richards ( 1933 - 2006 ) > ------------------------------ > > However a lot of the earlier subscribers are a little more than > pissed at how inexpensive the phone is getting especially after how > much they spent. > > One of the ways I have bought technology is never be the first > one. Always wait a year or two. > > I got my last Smartphone (Motorola Q) with a deep discount for just > less than $100.00 because I waited. (Boy does that hurt to wait) > > My wife got her last Cell phone (An Env2) for next to nothing because > we waited. > > Not an easy thing to do at all. > > Oh my Motorola even though it is not a touch phone does cut and paste. > > >I see iPhone 3 as the first usable version. Without cut and paste I > >was totally uninterested. > > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
