Apple announced the new, dead-sexy iPhone on Monday, and it finally has 3G compatibility. I don’t own an iPhone because most of its features would have been unavailable at my previous and future posts, but they plan to launch the new phone in over 70 countries by the end of this year.

Sadly, it’s still not a good buy for most FS types. DS still restricts the use of camera phones at many posts. They offer a few different reasons for this, all of which seem very silly to me (the solutions to the two biggest problems are keep it so that the camera is in a pocket or not facing outward and don’t bring them into secure areas). The new iPhone, however, is GPS enabled, which would probably make it a bigger security risk.

I’ve been served quite well by my Motorola v195. I purchased it on eBay for $40 two years ago and had a Colombian tech unlock it for $10. It is quad-band, meaning it can be used on just about any cell network in the world. It has no camera. It is WAP-capable if you get the service. It runs on a SIM card, so you can pop em out and in while you travel so you have local coverage everywhere you go. The best feature? Bluetooth. Every day it syncs my iCal and Address Book data to the phone, wirelessly. I keep a few lists with address book entries sorted by country, so when I travel, all I have to do is drop in the new SIM card and sync my phone and all of the contacts are updated in about 30 seconds.

If you have a Mac and this phone and want to set up iSync, you should download this plugin that has the script set up. After dragging the plugins to the folder that they tell you to, double click that folder and go to resources, and replace the file MOTV195.tiff with this image file. That’s it…you’re good to go.