I don’t think there is one apartment complex in my town that doesn’t have free high-speed Internet as part of their amenities. Usually it’s free high-speed Internet, and free Cable TV.

Don’t offer that here. When I first started living in Mark-Taylor communities back in 2000, I got free basic cable. They stopped offering that in 2001.

Mobile browsing is when you in your car in the middle of town and are trying to get movie times or look for a restaurant directions, or stuck on a train for 90 minutes a day and want to kill that time surfing.

Or you’re at a friends house and want to check the scores of a game, or you’re sitting in an office waiting for an appointment. Or even at Panera (a bakery around the United States) which has WiFi. There are a lot of instances that I can imagine needing Internet access where I would also have a connection to WiFi.

Mobile browsing is when you in your car in the middle of town and are trying to get movie times or look for a restaurant directions, or stuck on a train for 90 minutes a day and want to kill that time surfing.

I have heard that Verizon and Sprint offer the fastest Internet access, and with Opera Mini Beta 4 I don’t think you would be missing out too much, as you said. I do feel like we are pretty far behind when it comes to developing decent cell networks that can handle any sort of load and speed though.

“I have a feeling that users will be quick to switch to a Wi-Fi network for
data when one is available if the Edge Internet is as slow as all four said it was.”

Like finding a hotspot when you need one is *ever* practical.

You know, I forget that I’m in a college town and there are WAY more locations with free Wi-Fi than most other locations. My bad!

Like finding a hotspot when you need one is *ever* practical.

I cant beleive that in 2007 that we as consumers are still banging our heads against the wall from the fallout of not selecting a singular network standard.
When the iPhone launches in EU the network will be a complete non-issue, as with all of their handset launches.

They are just over there, popping SIMS in and out of their handsets at will, surfing around on 3G everywhere, without a care in the world.

And here we are every year wondering how to get out of our contracts just to get a new phone, jumping from provider to provider as they come out with better hardware, data networks, prices, or coverage.

We’re slaves to this crappy industry.

SprintPCS has decent phones, fast data, but are LAST in customer service.
Verizon has a tremendous network, coverage, customer service and are usually a year behind in handsets and are pricy.
AT&T has awful data speeds and changes hands every 18 months, yet they get the iPhone, Curve, and 8800!
T-Mobile has good pricing, good customer service, and decent phones, but the same crappy EDGE networks.

There is just no way to win in the game.

I’ve started looking at the Sprint Mogul as a serious competitor to the iPhone – fastest data, every feature you can think of, although its Windows Mobile on SprintPCS. Opera Mini Beta 4 has the best features of the iPhone browser also – full page rendering with zoom.