Over here on the other side of the Atlantic in Scandinavia, not only the hardware companies but also the telcos plug BT connections very hard as part fof their marketing. In other words it comes as no surprise that a Nokia E61 (or Sony Ericsson P990i, etc) can be used as a BT modem with the 3G network out of the box, giving excellent speeds. I do it daily travelling on business across Europe from OS X/XP/Linux laptops. The Nokia E61 (et al) also matches (and/or surpasses) the feature set of the Blackberry, including push mail, mobile Exchange sync, etc, etc. There is one thing with data speeds though that must always be remembered. Most operators still have a priority for voice built into the network. This means that every GPRS connection searches for "gaps" in the voice traffic (in Swedish they are called the direct translation of "time gaps", don't know the exact English term) to and from the particular mast you are connectiong to. And depending on how many are available at the time, your connection will be alloted X such "gaps" and the number of them determine the speed of your connection. So, if you're in a urban area at, say, lunch time there might be fewer gaps available for data, compared to a rurally situated mast at the same time. Or, later in the afternoon or if you just move a couple of blocks, getting you connected to another mast. Usually, it's even easier. If you find yourself with a less than ideal connection, you just disconnect and connect again and most of the times you then get a better allotment. A bit like getting a "better line" in the old land line voice world. And this restriction on data traffic will probably not go away until the operators see that they actually have more data then voice in their books.