15 Things I'd Rather Do with $600 Than Purchase an IPhone

Let me start out by saying that the new Apple iPhone appears to be phenomenal product. I've read many rave reviews and I have heard personal accounts of its brilliance and I do not doubt it. Everyone knows that the Apple brand means innovation, quality and the hippest of the hip accessories. I do understand why people are scrambling to get one. I do understand why it is in contention to beat the Smartphone, the Blackberry, the Treo and a number of other devices out there as the current best thing. Really, its lovely. This is not an editorial to argue otherwise. I'm writing this for one simple reason. The best selling model of the iPhone retails for $600.

Regardless of how great it is, I already have a cellphone that works well and a great plan to accompany it. I already have a computer. I have an Mp3 player. I have an organizer and a camera and all manners of functional devices and ways of organizing my life and they are all working, more or less, just fine. I know that I could replace several of those with one really neat little streamlined device, but at this point, that would be wasteful and I don't happen to have an extra $600 (plus the cost of activation fees).

So this got me to thinking. I'm doing fine without one, but if I had an extra $600 right now, would I be tempted to pick one up?

Would it change my life radically for the better? Would it be something that I look back on and say "Wow. I'm so glad I spent that $600 on this little iPhone instead of all the other things I could do with $600?" Odds are, no it wouldn't. Why? Besides the fact that I'm a forgetful klutz and I'm terrified that I would lose it or trip and have it crash to the pavement - it wouldn't because I can think of so many other things that I would rather do with $600. Here are just 15 of those things, just off the top of my head:

15 things I'd rather do with a spare $600 than purchase an iPhone