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Originally Posted by Russ Smith
(for me)I can do without some things, but I just can't see having a PPC without WiFi. I was really quite enthusiastic about the Touch Dual. It has almost everything else I'd want (It also doesn't have a HiDPI screen), but I really want WiFi for fast connectivity.
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I'd have said the same thing a few weeks ago, and certainly an 802.11g connection has faster throughput than mobile 3G, but in all the ways that matter, my touch actually seems faster than my previous wifi ipaq (802.11b though). It's not that data comes through faster, it's that I just start up email or Opera and it's ready to go. Connecting isn't a separate process from using.
With wifi, I always had to click on that HP wifi today icon, then wait while it tried to connect. Half the time, it wouldn't work, or I'd be somewhere that I had to open the browser and agree to terms before it would let me do anything. The best case was about 15 seconds (at home where it was permanently part of the network) and the worst was never getting connected (and that happened a lot).
With my Touch, the EVDO connection is often already active and, if not, it's only a couple of seconds before I'm ready. And I don't have to tap something to connect and then go to my application; I just start the application and it connects if it needs to. One of the best parts is that I can connect almost anywhere instead of having to go find a cafe somewhere.
So while I would love to have wifi if it was seamless in switching between EVDO and wifi, this is much more usable in an every day sense and I really don't miss wifi while I'm using the device.