Living outside a major city means 3G is not available. I use wi-fi on my phone pretty much 80% of the time which is great. That means the only thing that I will be missing is the GPS option. I will still get all the software and games. I will still have 98% of the functionality and won’t even be able to use only 1% of the new stuff unless I start traveling more.

$199 is a tempting price but the announcement of the 3G iphone also brought with it a hike in the price of the Data Plan to $30 bucks. This is interesting as most all other 3G phones on the AT&T have come with a $20 data plan. But I guess 98% of a devices user base uses the web browsing features, and uses them a lot I imagine, I can understand this. This probably will also cover the costs of downloading applications.

So pretty much the only thing I will be getting again is GPS. Do I really need it? Not yet. Down the road when I upgrade my phone sure, I will jump on the band wagon and hopefully by then AT&T will have rolled out the 3G network to the outskirts of the country.

So if you do not live in the city, I would encourage you to hang on to your original iPhone as long as possible.