Why You Should Buy the Apple iPhone 3G

By Jim on August 29th, 2008

If you’ve been reading my columns each week then you know that I’ve had quite a few things to say about Apple’s new iPhone 3G and few of them were complements. In fact, I’d resolved never to buy it for a bunch of reasons I spelled out in The Dracula Phone and Ten Reasons Why I Won’t Buy the 3G iPhone.

Here’s a quick recap of those reasons:

Increased monthly fees.
Charges for basic text messaging.
Inefficient battery life while running 3G and GPS.
Camera not upgraded.
No video camera.
No significant storage upgrade.

Those are just a few of the reasons but they give you the general idea of what I thought of the iPhone 3G. Basically, I thought it sucked and it wasn’t worth upgrading to if you were already an iPhone Classic owner.

So what the heck happened? How did I change my mind and end-up with an iPhone 3G?

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