Prodigy, I've actually narrowed it down to either Alltel or T-Mobile and three phones:
Sidekick (TMobile)
Motorola Q (Alltel)
UT-Starcom PPC-6700..its a touch screen (Alltel)
So are you saying the Sidekick is slow on the web, and the 5.99 internet on it is bad? I dont understand if I purchase it to be to buy the 5.99 per month or the 19.99 per month. I want to be mainly to access the RX, nfl.com, espn.com, etc from it...The guy tried to talk me into a Blackberry Pearl, but it seems just too small and sensitive for me.
the 5.99 internet can be added to regular cell phones (non-sidekick or non-blackberry phones). its not a full internet. its basically news, weather, and sports info (of which they have yahoo and espn included). like i said, for me this works perfectly because i only use the internet for scores and the espn page lookis and works great.
the 19.99 internet is for the sidekicks and PDAs/blackberrys.
with those phones, youll have access to the full internet where you can type in "www...." sites, but in my opinion, the sites take too long to load and then when they do load, you have to do a lot of scrolling up and down because they are trying to fit a full webpage on a small screen. sites like nfl.com and nhl.com have so many graphics that it can be annoying waiting for the page to load. to me, its not worth the 19.99.
i dont mind my internet being relatively slow (5-7 seconds to load each page) for 5.99 a month. with the 5.99 regular internet, i cant type in 'www....' addresses, but it has espn news which is all i care about anyways because the scores are fast and the interface looks good.
but for 19.99 (and a lot of scrolling), i dont like waiting on the internet that long. just not worth it imo. again, this is personal preference. the sidekick is a cool phone. but i just think the phones/internet are still a little ways away from being synched up to where everything is fast, while also looking good and easy to navigate.