What will sell the 3G iPhone?

MoCo News today posed the question: Can Apple (AAPL) hit its much-boasted 10 million 3G iPhone sales target in 2008? While the 3G iPhone isn’t due to hit the market until June 9th, there is already pressure on Apple for a 3G iPhone, for faster downloads. But will faster speed sell more iPhones now that a large number of people own them?

There is no doubt in my mind or anyone else’s that the iPhone has made a huge impact on the industry. And everyone from LG to Samsung have gotten haptics-happy on their new handset designs due to this—and we haven’t even gotten to their SDK roadmap.

I think that the original touch-screen design and interface combined with an iTunes-ready MP3 player are what made the iPhone such a huge hit with American consumers, not its internet capabilities. We have yet to see whether they’ll hit their goal by the end of this year, and whether faster downloading is the new iPhone selling point.