Masaki:

1st: My congrats on the very happy news. Our love to Amanda!

I guess I will just live w/ my 16 gig iPhone 1.0. I don't need the gps. The google maps function works rather well. I admit that I would have welcomed the faster internet and longer battery. But I can't see upgrading after so short a time. I will have had my iPhone for only 4 or 5 months when the new one is available in July. Hard to justify an upgrade expense after so short a time. Maybe I'll just wait for iPhone 3.0.

I did notice, however, that the price cut for the iPhone will be more than offset by the higher charges from AT&T. The data charge will be $30 per month as compared with $20 for iPhone 1.0. So, you save $200 on the phone today and pay $240 more over the two year service contract. (I don't need to do present values. It is close to a wash - but good marketing stuff!)
But this is the Apple way...... I looked back and realised that each and every Mac I ever bought cost me about the same in absolute dollars. But each time I got more machine & features. Looks like the same thing at work here.

Doug