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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
Yes, it could be very convenient. I think this may become a reality when UMA starts becoming more prevalent, allowing seamless handoffs between WiFi and cellular data. On the other hand, as 3G, 3.5G and 4G hit the market and more unlimited plans come into effect, the benefit of WiFi diminishes immensely. My 700w is sufficiently fast over EVDO that dealing with the "hassle" of WiFi (association time, amongst other things) is just not worth it.
--janak
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I wouldn't have thought it beyond the skills of MS to come up with a utility that could figure out that if it can talk to the specified Exchange server over WLAN it should use that rather than GPRS/EDGE/EVDO or whatever. But it does need to be automatic - if there is hassle people will not bother.
I would guess that a lot of the Blackberry traffic (more than half?) is probably delivered when people are in their offices, almost certainly in range of a WLAN connected pretty directly to their Exchange server. Even when you are out of the office, you are frequently in range of a public WLAN, so it could at least try that route first.
Why pay your operator to deliver it - and before you say "unlimited" in my book there are no free lunches - if it is truly unlimited you are probably paying too much, and if it has a limit then by sensible use you could probably find a cheaper plan with a lower limit.
A lot of us would not be jumping through these hoops if BB was reasonably priced, so price is important here, and MS should take advantage of being the knight in shining armour for once in their existence and put the finishing touches to the job!