[Myst3ry]

let me make this simple for you... Yes, the iPhone very much will have identical hardware, BUT the software is WAY too locked down for my tastes (unless you jailbreak it of course... but then once you do, you cannot upgrade the phone or you'll brick it) (btw, i despise a cluster of icons as my homescreen)

BUT On a more important note... Apple has some contract with AT&T that ties them together till 2012! and there are two things that i will never do! 1) Wait two years for the next iPhone 2) switch to the horribly serviced AT&T