And exactly what I thought when I got mine a few months back. Worse still, the browser interface is so bad—when I tried browsing the net using mine I landed up accidentally downloading tunes i got charged for… it leaves a lot to be desired but they are getting better s-l-o-w-l-y.

Bugger. Was the browser interface the phone or virgin’s fault? Wish we could kick their ass into gear somehow…

I’d say it’s the phone rather than Virgin – not that I’m defending my own of course :)

When I was at Hutch I used a lot of differnet phones and they all had such different interfaces and browsers, it was nothing to do with 3 itself. We just configured and sold the buggers…

How web 2.0 is that! Virgin employees responding to my blog post :)

So Chez, go and hassle the mobile guys to give their customers GPRS already.

Hutch is Three, not Virgin ;)

I work for Ericsson (in Hutch Managed Services). Teh internets on phones will get better in the next 2-3 years.

Telcos are rolling/completing MPLS roll outs.

Mobile telcos, are moving their SS7 signaling over IP[TLS MPLS ] (Sigtran), instead of over ATM . Once this happens, it will all be IP based at the backhaul.

Companys like Ericsson plan to have the whole mobile world over IP by late 2008, for IPTV and other cool features. [#GPP Release 4 standard]

Add to that the 3GPP has a release, 5 WCDMA which includes HSDPA …Which is already being tried in AU.

Internet (Packet), and mobile (Radio/Cell) have been worlds apart, they are being bridge.

(U do know me)

Need I say it had problem syncing, and still do!! And have you seen the increasing trend of how mobile companies talk about their phone storage card, picture resolution and the neighbours cats, dogs and guinea-pigs and no some much about the phone specs itself?