For those of you, like me, who haven't hopped on-board the iPhone band-wagon, it's OK to wait.

Two factors:

#1) I spoke with an executive with AT&T Alascom who told me they're pretty set on rolling out 3G in Alaska during the first quarter of 2009. Nine months ago this same exec told me "Q3 of '08", but this time around he sounds quite certain.

#2) Apple and Infineon are closing in on performance issues in the iPhone 3G, which will be fixed in a firmware update that should come out as early as September.

Who knows, perhaps rev2 of the iPhone 3G will be out by the time AT&T launches 3G in Alaska.