I wonder why they call it a “cell phone”. They give them away for free at many places. I got three V3c’s with my $30 a month three line plan. It rings, it talks, its a cell phone.
For the rest you need a lappy. Does anyone actually think Internet over the cell phone frequencies is going to work? Unless they repealed the laws of physics, good luck with that.
And people think braodband is slow ...
Yeah, I know. Every time we upgrade, we end up with a free phone. I feel like we got a closet full of the silly things. Mr. Peel likes his toys. The HP phone was a real disappointment to him as he wanted all of those features. Our current phones are pretty beat up (Razr). He was thinking of getting a Blackberry when Jobs made the announcement. Been waiting with anticipation ever since.
I've used internet over the cell phone in travel. Its a blast. Great for sending e-mail, getting directions - updates -- keeping in touch. Its wild to have an Internet Message session going on while a passenger in the car. Associates don't know you're on travel. Speed generally wasn't an issue. Being connected was the main thing.
I use a Cingular 3G card in my notebook.....
Speed tests around 1.8M download.....
Fast enough for Internet...streaming video etc.
The complaint regarding the iPhone is the internet access is on the Cingular Edge network, I have a HTC 8125 with Microsoft OS and it runs at about 512K download on Cingular’s Edge.
Not really good enough for streaming....
I guess Cingular and Apple are guessing the WiFi option on the iPhone will pick up the slack with consumers...
I believe that is a major error.
My husband just got his first blackberry, and he loves it.
He used to carry his laptop around everywhere. Now, he just has his tiny blackberry.