Originally Posted by Mark Rejhon

bradberry -- The 7290 is one of the fastest BlackBerries available. (However, a 7280 with OS 3.7 is usually faster and the 7290 OS 3.8 is very slow -- but we're comparing 7280 OS 4.0 versus 7290 OS 4.0, and the 7290 is indeed faster on an apples-to-apples comparision when both are upgraded to OS4.