Ah, most xlnt! Hoping that you'll post here some of your observations, then I too can't wait. Er, um, in the interest of my 'helping' you with the waiting, when exactly do you expect to have one? Or is that too specific a question? I have some more cats...

I can't post observations until some time after testing. But-- I'm open to suggestions from posters here on what to try.

Could you try out the camera? I've had quality issues when photographing large, smooth, flat reflective surfaces perpendicularly. Maybe you could snap some pictures like that and upload them so we can see if it's better.
Or maybe you could try something like this?

Naturally, of course, the main upgrade (that we know of) is WiMAX, so tales of disgustingly fast downloads of new tablet firmwares over a VPN from an internal Nokia network while driving 90 mph down the freeway would be in order...

Don't quit your day job.

Clarity of making Skype calls on it?


Oh, and seeing how well it travels via fed-ex (you know, seeing if any of their scanners or other handling processes damage it, things like that). I volunteer to be the other end-point of the test shipment. And I promise I'll send it RIGHT back. No, really, I will.

Are there actually any wimax networks out there?

Canada seems blessed by this.

USA seems to have a few trials - Sprint's Xohm?

in the UK, as far as I know, there's only one operator even offering a public trial:
http://www.pipex.net/pg.asp?home

I've recently seen planning notices outside Tower 42 (in the City of London) for the erection of WiMAX antenna. I can't remember the company's name, but it definitely wasn't Pipex.

and there's a WiMAX mobile variant (WiBro) in S. Korea already, that is widely deployed.

Indeed. This is what I want to hear about. How does one connect, how fast is it, how reliable, etc. But, can you test these things w/o a wimax network? Or is there such a thing in place in Dallas already? Certainly nothing like that here in Austin...yet

Edit: Well, I've been doing some reading. Seems like wimax might be closer than I thought. At wimax.com I found a 'deployments' page that lists both Dallas/Ft. Worth and Austin, though I'm not exactly sure how the service is being deployed and how one gets access to it if it is. More reading is in oner, of course...