Aside form simultaneous data useage and phone (available with 3g or EDVO)which is nice, dowload speeds are nearly inconsequential for regular browsing / email on a PDA phone. The bottlenecks are not with download speeds but with processor / bus speeds of the phones.

You could open up a 3 TB pipe for your 6700 and your download speeds on web browsing will be nearly identical to what it is now. So while more speed is nice for the few times I'm downloading a big file, which is rare given the memory constraints of the devices its really not going to help much in day to day use. Regardless your phone will still be slow as hell writing all that info to the SD card or memory. Again the bottle neck is the phone not download speeds.

I was at the Cingular store the other day playing with the 8525 and i had my WX with EDVO coverage. The 8525 was about 4 seconds or less slower on edge loading very large sites, like Foxnews.com orsm.net. Thats edge vs edvo. 4 seconds or less slower, fully downloaded and formatted. Sometimes edge was faster if the Sprint phone delayed in connection to the site for whatever reason which didn't seem to happen at all with the Edge phone. Perhaps network congestion?

Not really a big deal. By the time phones can actually handle the speeds we are getting with EDVO 3G will be in every market as well. In fact AT&T is already pushing to get 3g out quickly, this is from a reliable inside source that is involved there. I'm also a CDMA Sprint user ATM.

Its funny, some people act like their penis shrinks 5 inches if their pet company or service isn't the absolute "BEST". You see this all the time with cell phones, sat radio, computer parts etc. I'll never understand the fanboi attitude.

So this whole debate is sort of moot IMO. It really doesn't matter. The one with the best coverage for you is the winner.