It hasnt been 1 upped.. at least not yet. Its perfect for iTunes users, and avid apple customers like Ben who actually know the product. What I hate are the brain dead zombie wanna be trendy people that are doing it just because everyone else is doing it.
What really concerns me is that its a 3g phone, being made knowing a 5 is in production, on a company that has 4g phones coming out in a few months. Thats like beating off to the ugly girl in the movie knowing the hot girl will be on in 15 minutes. If Verizon gets the new one around the same time as AT&T you will see a lot of pissed off people paying full retail. If not that you will see people on their 4g android phones while the verizon apple people are stuck on 3g... and go right back to AT&T to keep up with the Joneses.