2006 OS was a great leap forward in responsiveness. I've found that -most- pages load quite quickly. Browsing via bluetooth+cellphone is just as fast and responsive as my laptop, and browsing via WiFi is notably faster, if not quite as fast as my laptop.

Flash advertisements do SEVERE damage to this. Privoxy dramatically reduces this problem. Skweezer (http://www.skweezer.net/) helps too.

Honestly, I see the 770 as a way to surf the web wherever I wouldn't normally have access to it. The browsing experience is orders of magnitude better than my cellphone --- and much better than my Axim x3i.

Finally, that $2000 Sony probably gets around two hours of battery life. My Nokia gets somewhere between two to four times that easily, even with the backlight cranked to full.