Sprint has actually been pretty decent in the past years. They were first with the Touch Pro, first with the Touch Pro 2, and got on board with Android pretty quickly.

I'm just annoyed that I can't add an Android device to my $30/month SERO

I think the EVO will be "game changing" - if Sprint can get enough 4G coverage, they'll have a headstart that'll last for 2-3 years.

Sadly, at the end of the day, all that doesn't mean much if you travel to Europe as there are still no GSM/EVDO Android devices

too bad the next iPhone still won't have OLED screen....

but if it's available with 64GB of memory, or more, then sign me up.

I carry around my 16GB iPhone, and my 64GB iPod Touch, at the same time...

OLED is nice, sharp and great viewing angle, plus lower consumption. BUUUT, it really looks like hs.t outdoors. Basically totally unuseable in my opinion out of doors. AMOLED is a better option, but even then, it doesn't compare outdoors to other current screen types. I really hope they get this fixed in the future.

I'm thinking I'll upgrade either my wife's or mine. I use mine more but you know - if she's happy I'm happy.

The specs sound fine and none of the new phones really are huge leaps ahead. They all seem to slowly add features. I feel it will be some time before we see another leap in technology like we had 2 years ago.

I won't say I'm bored with my 3GS but it would be handy to have multi-tasking as an option. That's the big advantage with the next iPhone as I see it.

True there is nothing antiquated about WImax. Also true that there is nothing positive about it, or real, or present, or any reason whatsoever to spend money on it. It was all a huge pile of hype.

LTE on the other hand is coming faster than anyone expected.

For those who will switch from a iphone 3G to the new one, hang onto your old phone. They now have Android running on the 3G iPhone, barely. But it should be running well by the time the new iPhone comes out.

See http://www.telecoms.com/20199/androi...-on-iphone-3g/

I'm sorry, but that statement is just bogus. I have CLEAR WiMax here, and I get 6-7Mbit most of the time. That isn't hype - that is real speed that I need on the road. Given your knowledge and experience in this area, I'm amazed you'd call it that.

LTE is great, but nobody in the US is offering it yet, whereas I can get WiMax coverage almost anywhere I travel nowadays.

When LTE is actually available, we can compare it to WiMax - until then, WiMax is the only 4G option out there, making it more than just "hype".

Assuming that within a few months android is able to fully run on the iPhone 3G, does that mean I could put it on my iPhone 3G and use my iDroid when I travel with Pay As You Go SIM cards anywhere around the world?

Everywhere you travel? Bogus statements! Sorry, I have to take you to task there. You must have the most limited travel area of any Flyertalker on this board. WiMax is a complete dud and it ISN"T available anywhere I travel, which is dozens of countries all over the world. In real terms, it exists only in press releases. Clearwire prints up these coverage maps that rarely exist in reality. And Clearwire themselves are switching to LTE because they know that WiMax has no future. Let me repeat NO FUTURE. That is why they have just backed out of their long term WiMax contract with Intel. There are over 2 billion WiFi chips on the market and growing way, way, way faster than WiMax. Realistically there is only 3G, WiFi and LTE, which is available in parts of northern Europe now and working so well that customers say they will never use 3G again.

And I get more than 6-7Mbps over WiFI, but of course that depends on your backend. It has little to do with the radio technology.

Yep, that's what the developers are striving for. Of course you can hack your Iphone today to use pay as you go SIM's.

Stay classy!

My bad - I meant to say "within the US". Sure, there are plenty of places that still don't have Clear, but their coverage maps are certainly not a lie. There are also places where it is pretty much the only solution - try getting a reliable 3G signal in Vegas during CES.

And WiFi is not a solution - hotel WiFi is often too slow, too pricey or just not reliable enough. Last week, my WiFi in Austin would have been $19/day, whereas I got online on CLEAR for $40/month. You can call it all you want, but one million people are using Clear in the US, and they can't all be using a dud without noticing it.

True. However, while I do enjoy tinkering with computers, I'm more inclined to do so when I'm not playing with my primary machine. In this case I'll definitely start hacking my 3G when I get the new one.

Here is a quote from Clearwires's recent quarterly statement. Make of it what you will. Clearwire ended the first quarter with 971,000 total subscribers consisting of 814,000 retail subscribers and 157,000 wholesale subscribers. During the first quarter 2010 Clearwire added 283,000 net new subscriber additions including 172,000 retail additions and 111,000 wholesale additions. Greater than one-third of our wholesale subscribers consist of subscribers on dual mode devices that reside outside of our currently launched markets, but for whom we receive monthly recurring revenue.

I know lots of people who are inside Clearwire's "coverage zones" who cannot get service.

As for your hotel wifi example, you are mixing your technologies. The speed and price hotels offer has absolutely nothing to do with WiFi as a technology. In fact if you replaced the hotel WiFi with hotel Wimax, the price would go up and the poor service stay the same. That's because the service is limited behind the WiFi. WiFi on its own, in the real world, offers just as good service as WiMax.

Mrs Antichef and I both have the 3G and are due for renewal in Aug-Sep. Both will be updated. I do hope the battery life is improved. Not a problem for Mrs A, but for me it certainly is. I hope the simulated multi-tasking is ok, my previous phone was an HTC Touch Pro and it was what I missed with the iphone.

I reckon the iphone does about 90% of what I want better and simpler (and better integrated)than most of the other phones I have seen, so I will stick with it.