I own an iPhone 3g and it will not let me update to iOS 5... why?

Anyone know anything about this? :s Please help!

iPhone 3G can only update to IOS 4.2.1
because the hardware is not up to task.
iPhone 3GS, 4 and 4S can update to the latest 5.0.1.

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