Not all iPhone users are bowled over by the new 3GS model

Well, the suspense among the Apple faithful was palpable, and Apple delivered enough to keep their enthusiasm at a high pitch. Mostly. Some were not convinced:

Apple's dog and pony show this morning touted iPhone 3G S's fully-functional 3MP camera and voice dialing capabilities. Big whoop. These may seem like some amazing features for the Apple faithful, who have not been able to verbally instruct their iPhone to switch songs or call Jane Doe before the update, but to those of us who have been on other cellphone networks using other brands of mobile phones, voice dialing and a video recording are tricks we take for granted. Just another example of Apple masking their last-gen inadequacies as ZOMG SHINY NEW FEATURES.

Rogers has not yet announced their pricing and upgrade policies for the iPhone in Canada, but I think it'll be unlikely to be much better than AT&T's policies for their US customers (which have set off mass whining and complaining on all the iPhone mailing lists and blogs). On that basis, I doubt that I'll be getting a new iPhone so soon after getting the current one . . . not to mention that aside from the extra 16Gb of memory, I don't think any of the "big" new hardware features would really be that important to me. The software upgrades are being released on the 17th, most of which will be fine for the current 3G iPhone as well as the new one.