I don't get this "no free wi-fi" in these supposed big influential cities.
In Raleigh, NC just about EVERYWHERE there's free wi-fi. Same with Chapel Hill, Durham, Wilmington, Fayetteville. Here in Kansas City it's the same but I've also found open wi-fi all along the interstates in St. Louis and downtown Chicago as well.
Granted, most of that "free access" are just *****s who don't know how to secure their APs, but still...
Even in Kansas and Missouri there are public rest stops along the interstates that have free wi-fi! I've even gassed up at a gas station literally in the middle of the prairie with nothing else in sight for miles and miles that offered free wi-fi for customers. Used my N800 with Skype right there to make a few calls and the call quality through my Ultimate Ears headset was damn good.
Now, here in Kansas City it's not hard at all to find a free, open wi-fi AP. Matter of fact, within range of me right now is a trusty ol' LINKSYS wi-fi router still set on default settings offering up free access in this apartment complex. Correction: make that MULTIPLE open linksys routers...all set on the same channel with the same defaults...ugh...going to have to go in there and jump them all over to different channels/freqs soon. You know, helping out the neighbors.
Even the management here at this apartment complex offers free wi-fi access not only at the clubhouse but poolside as well.
Are you telling me that Kansas City has more on the ball when it comes to free/open wi-fi than both San Francisco and New York City?
Maybe folks in the mid-west/south are more about "sharing" than the money-grubbing slime that live in those two big cities?

Now, if Sprint is REALLY serious about Wi-Max and uses existing towers to massively deploy it throughout the U.S. over the next year or two then I can see a Wi-Max-enabled N800 stomping the crap out of any current Apple product.
Especially if that N800 comes with Skype ALREADY INSTALLED ON IT. Sprint does a deal with both Nokia and Skype and they stand to make a small mint. Not a large mint mind you, but enough tomake it worthwhile.
More importantly they'll be collecting very valuable data on the whole thing (customers, experience, sales, issues, etc) that will put them ahead of everyone else in the whole wireless data game. There's only so much you can learn from EVDO after all.

Of course if Apple tosses out an iPod Touch that's Wi-Max enabled then the wheel spins again...