I know what you mean. I went to Best Buy and played around with the iPod Touch and fell in love with the browser. I even tried out WMWiFiRouter on my Mogul to use my data connection to try out the browser on the iPod. It was nothing short of amazing. I almost bought one right then and there. I had planned on carrying the iPod for music video and web browsing, but I came to my senses and realized that now that I have a converged device I would be taking a step backward by carrying a separate device for the same things that my mogul does now.

The iPod touch does most of those things much better and I could get an iPhone to take care of the converged issue, but I don’t have at&t service in my area.

I am looking to move to an area that does have at&t service, but $80 a month vs. 30$/mo is not enticing enough for a great browser.

Besides, even if I lived there, I would be roaming on a partner network more often than on ATT’s and one of my co-workers recently had ATT drop them for too much roaming.

If a CDMA iPod ever emerges (that is, one that has a user replaceable battery), I’ll likely buy one if Sprint snags it, but I doubt they’d allow the iPhone on SERO anyway since Apple doesn’t seem too likely to allow the phone on any network without grabbing a share of each subscription.

I’ll save my rant on a phone manufacturer, in this day and age, releasing a phone without a user replaceable battery for another day.

@nosmohtac: I’ve tried SPB Mobile Shell 2 on the TyTN II and I found it to be okay. I don’t know, seems to over-complicate things though. That’s a fair call re screen resolution – it’s not something that really bothers me as I do most of my web browsing through Google Reader, which formats all the pages for a mobile-optimised view.

About 6 months ago I picked up the iPhone.

If you want to see what it’s like — grab an iPod Touch – very nearly the same thing (minus the phone). That’s what sold me. Within 30 days of owning a Touch I headed down to Apple and bought the iPhone.

I use the browser on the iPhone all the time — it’s the first truly usable phone browser I’ve ever seen.

I don’t mind opera mini, but in my eyes the enire problem with WM is not having enough devices with screen resolution that equals or exceeds the iphone. The ability to view web pages as they are displayed on a desktop doesn’t do me any good on a 320×240 display if I can’t even tell what each paragraph contains and whether I want to zoom in on it or not.

I am enticed by the iphone, and can’t say that I wouldn’t like to own one, but I’m not willing to give up my SERO plan to end up paying more than twice as much for cellular service just to have one.

I have been a WM die-hard for 9 years, and I want to continue down that road but the lack of innovation on the WM front is going to end up driving many away from it.

Sorry for the rant…. but give Mobile Shell a try, you won’t regret it.