I surfed on over to DSL Reports on my cell phone and did a speed test on my new 3G connection. I was very interested to see what types of speed were possible. I did the test a number of times, and it averaged out at around 750 Kbits per second. It took around 7 to 10 seconds to download a 1 MB file.

That is pretty exciting. It isn’t nearly as fast as my cable internet, but for the things that you do on your phone, that is plenty of speed.

I was excited to find some videos to watch, but because cingular changed to the “new AT&T” (not a fan of that…) the urls that lead to videos that are baked into the phone no longer work. My phone looks for the cingular mobile site that no longer exists…has anyone there ever heard of a redirect. That is a major oversight. Boo on you AT&T.

Add to that, there are a ton of markets who’ve had 3G for a long time. I am glad that we finally have it, but it is about dang time!!

All in all, I am pretty pleased with the service, but we shall see in the coming months how I like it over time.

Finally, AT&T rolled out 3G here in Northwest Arkansas. My phone is now a rocket sled. It took them a long time to get it out up here. Surrounding cities have had it for quite a long time now. That made it really nice to go to those towns.

Surfing on the old Edge network was almost impossible to bear. I’m looking forward to finding new uses for my phone now that I can zip around the network.

I have to get this phone working as a modem on my laptop., then we would really be talking.

I am also giving the T9 typing assist a try on the old Blackjack. I don’t know if I like it or not. Having the full keyboard means that a lot of the time it is easier to just type the word. I don’t know if i will keep it on or not.