Taking the iPhone 3GS off the job market is a new editorial over at engadget and is one that many people are likely to agree with, others not so much… Thanks to Jah.

“The other day, whilst sitting in the waiting room of a doctor’s office, awaiting the inevitable bad news to come down the pipeline (you’re dead, you’re dying, no that rash can’t be treated), I attempted to do something daring with my iPhone 3GS. I attempted to work. I say attempted, because what dawned on me — separated from my laptop, a netbook, or any viable computing system — was that I couldn’t really get much of my work done on Apple’s bundle of joy. It wasn’t the first time I tried to get work done on my phone, but it was one of the first times that I really thought about how frustrating the experience is. What follows is my heartbreaking tale of staggering lameness. Or staggering tale of heartbreaking lameness. Your pick.

Before I even got to the “work” part of my experience, I realized I had serious problems. AT&T’s service is never anything to write home about in New York City (in fact, it’s usually embarrassingly bad), but I found that my 3G connection seemed especially weak in this Manhattan doctor’s den. Oh, I had five bars all right, but trying to load just the iPhone-formatted…”