So from my little bit of research on EDGE, it seems like it tops out at about 384kbps and averages more like 150ish.  That’s not really all that slow.  I mean yeah a few mbps would be better.  But speed really isn’t that important for e-mail and well the web…

I have a Motorola Q on Verizon right now.  And my web experience has been consistently horrible.  Pages don’t load, it’s slow, etc.  It’s basically worthless.  E-mail works nice (Outlook is pretty good on Windows Mobile and it talks to my Exchange server pretty well).  But the web, not so much.  I tried to look up an NBA finals basketball score a few weeks ago.  Verizon’s little portal thing sucks.  ESPN won’t load.  Etc.

So I have a lot of confidence in Steve Jobs and Apple to get the experience right.  And frankly I’d rather have a browser that renders ESPN correctly running at 200kbps than one that’s running 10 times faster but can’t render the page.  One of those is useful, the other is not.