You must be joking. It's not even close.
Not even close to what? He said his enthusiasm hadn't been that high since the A1000, he didn't compare the technology, but since you brought it up.
A4000 iPhone 3G
processor speed 25mhz 600mhz
memory 1mb 128mb
storage various 8 or 16gb
The iPhone 3G, even before the GS is 600mhz, which is about 12x faster than even the fastest stock Amiga, and about on par with the mid-range G4 processor which costs as much as an iPhone itself. The iPhone has more storage built into it than most Amigas could even handle without hd manipulation, and the software base is getting very close (if it hasn't already surpassed) to what the Amiga ever had to offer, at over 50,000 apps.
Granted, none of the iPhone apps are Toaster level apps, but frankly, anything I ever did on the Amiga now gets done on the iPhone, including games, file sharing, and even occasionally web site bug fixes on the fly.
Let's not even discuss the fact that the iPhone is 100% net compatible out of the box and the Amiga doesn't even have a legally available networking stack any longer.
... but.... All that being said, I'm not trying to bash the Amiga, and I'm definitely off topic. I just couldn't help but addressing your post which somehow suggests (unless I misunderstood your intent) that the iPhone 3G was in some way technically inferior to the Amiga 1000.
Wayne