I thought about the Q back in May or June but ended up getting the 700w. It is bigger but it's a PPC vs a Smartphone. I've heard alot of people that are happy w the Q but I wanted something that does a little bit more. I have the unlimited data plan w 1350 minutes for $110/mo on VZW. If you get a combo plan vs bolting on data to a minutes plan you'll save $10 but the only minute options w the combo or 450 or 1350 nothing in between. EVDO is pretty fast, I'm using my phone as a modem right now attached to my laptop. I have a torrent running in the background pulling down at 37KB/s and uploading at 15. I pulled down a file the other day from a website that averaged about 100KB/s. When I connect to Orb and it does the speed test I typically get 700-800kb/s (little b) and 100-200kb/s upload. YMMV based on where you are. I've been places where I only get a 1x signal and browsing was painfully slow...worse than 56k.