My iPhone and me

Apple has announced that the new iPhone 3G will be launched on July 11. Readers may recall that I got an iPhone for Christmas - and I was reasonably happy with it until a couple of weeks ago when the phone bit of it stopped working and I found I could only access email or the internet via my home wi-fi (which is not much good when I am away from the house).

I sensed that something wasn't right because, even before that, the iPhone kept shutting down, even when the battery wasn't exhausted. Connecting to the internet was often painfully slow, but the positives outweighed the negatives - just. (One of the negatives is the fear of losing the damned thing. And it's so sleek I always feel I'm about to drop it.)

We are told that the iPhone 3G will be half the price of the existing iPhone, and three times faster. If that is true I may be tempted to upgrade but I won't be ditching my (reliable) old mobile for some time to come. For now the iPhone is more like an executive toy than an essential piece of kit.