| (I just had to change the subject heading of the thread, because I love my iPhone and I can't stomach writing an email under the subject "don't buy an iPhone")
I got one on the 29th, and I've used it intermittently to access a variety of campus websites (calmail, bearfacts, berkeley.edu home page, etc.). Everything worked flawlessly.
AirBears with the iPhone works as well, but it's best for websites because of the need to authenticate first. Safari on the iPhone will not offer to store a website log on and password, so a user must open a page in Safari first to authenticate before doing something like email (just like AirBears works on other computers, but the added steps seem a little more frustrating on the iPhone). The frustration is compounded by the fact that the iPhone will use a remembered WiFi network by default before it tries to connect to the internet using Edge. The result is that if I go to check email while in range of AirBears, iPhone will take about a minute to have the WiFi connection timeout before switching over to Edge.
So it ends up better for me to remove AirBears from my iPhone's WiFi network list because I am mostly using my iPhone for email when I am on campus. I imagine this may be the case for other users as well, because presumably if you were going to be doing serious web browsing on campus you would be using a laptop or desktop.
Anyway, my AirBears / iPhone experience.
Btw - Edge network speed has not been an issue for me at all. Even watching YouTube videos on Edge as a test was only a ~20 sec. delay before the clip started. Of course I may have just been lucky with it so far, just giving my 2¢ on that issue.
I love my iPhone in general, you couldn't pay me $500 to go back to my Treo 650 or any other phone! 
-Andrew
On Jul 10, 2007, at 5:53 PM, Jay Bryon wrote: (hey, anybody used this thing on AirBears yet? Would love to hear about it if so).
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