As a Verizon customer I’m confused with the above-
My Treo with Microsoft Mobile allows me to access most all URLs that I can on my home PC, without restrictions except for not having some software apps that I haven’t downloaded (Adobe, etc,). When I have a strong signal, web pages such as SI load very quickly with just EV-DO. I’m sure with EV-DO rev A, and browser improvements it will only get better.
You'll note that your Treo isnt a BREW based handset. Verizon allows their smartphones to have unrestricted access to content and apps....AFAIK, they only cripple the Bluetooth networking.
OTOH, if you buy a non-smartphone, good luck.
Take a look at the review of the Motorla RAZR2 on Verizon....
laptopmag.com
Surfing mobile-optimized sites was fast with the VZW Browser. Loading the WAP version of CNN.com took only four seconds. NYTimes.com took five seconds, as did Gmail and Yahoo Mail. The browser can handle HTML pages, but it frequently kicked out an insufficient memory message when accessing text- and graphics-heavy pages like Digg.com and Gizmodo.com. If you need news and weather, you can access Verizon's News & Info page, which pops up in just a few seconds and gives you quick access to headlines, sports scores, and forecasts.
Now compare those comments to the review of the RAZR2 but with AT&T.
laptopmag.com
Surfing the Web on the RAZR V9 is a joy, thanks to the included Opera Web browser, which loaded HTML Web pages quickly. When we visited CNN.com, text loaded within 6 seconds, with photos loading about 15 seconds later. Page formatting wasn't perfect, but sites were relatively easy to navigate.
Two points....
1) Verizon does give you access to the internet through their browser, but since the browser was basically designed for WAP 2.0, it wont support a large number of web pages (frames, java and a host of other web features arent supported). Also, the design of Verizon's interface encourages you to stay within their walled garden of sites. It is a little like the way AOL was designed.
2) The Opera Mini browser is pretty much universally acclaimed to be the best mobile browser. If you owned the v9m on Sprint, you could just go ahead and download the browser...but on Verizon you are stuck with their preloaded browser.
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