So you live in a 3G region and you’re hearing a lot about the upcoming 3G iPhone but the question is why? You hear a lot about why you must have the latest in greatest from the Jobs that dare not speak its name but why shouldn’t you buy the 3G iPhone?

1. The new SDK will operate perfectly fine on your old iPhone so if you are outside the 3G regions and satisfied with using cell towers and wi-fi hotspots to pinpoint your location… then you don’t really want a new iPhone.

2. So this is the greatest advance in technology since knife was taken to bread right? Maybe not. The 3G iPhone is really just a slight upgrade from the first coming of the Christ-Almighty phone and the price will likely drop substantially in the coming months. Why not hang off until Apple really pulls out a game changer and whet your whiskers then?

3. No doubt in your excitement to impress the ladies the first time around you thought nothing of signing your communication needs over to the wire-tappers for hire at ATT. But now your sitting there looking at the rather dusty Gen1 device and dialing girls indiscriminately with pleas of ‘have you ever tried to call me?’ Afraid not. Come Gen2 and there’s a good part of seed-sewing days being frittered away in a few strokes of a pen and will you be able to trade in your useless appendage for some dead presidents from Apple - it seems unlikely.

4. You still have your old contract stoopid. You really going to pay for the old phone contract as well as the new, more expensive, contract? Take a good look around the BBQ at your friends it may be some time before you see them again - McDonald’s pays penalties on Public Holidays and you are going to be working ALL of them.

5. The suburbs have a certain charm that escapes us city folk and the so called fly-over-states are really the only destinations that matter when it comes to good ol’ hospitality - sure. But if your one of these charming strangers the likelihood is 3G is that stuff that you put on a squeaky bike wheel rather than the be-all-and-all of mobile communications. If you’re still debating the Kennedy Assassination, save your pennies, the 3G iPhone may just be a waste of your hard-earned.

What do you think? Is the iPhone 3G the future of just another gadget with a hype-machine behind it?