I have an 8700 and I find the web-surfing to be slow, kind of like a dial up modem.

A friend of mine has a Treaoand he says the web surfing is lightening fast, kind of like a broadband cable modem.

When will Cingular Blackberry offer a fast web surfing version?

Have you seen your friends Treo do this lightning fast surfing?

Someone could be stretching the truth!

Well my 8100 on cing browses the web or at least loads the pages 2x or more faster than someone loading the same page on an 8700 on cingular. This is from my own side my side tests. They are on the same network but I think the memory/cpu benefit in the 8100 makes it faster. So if you move to the 8800 you'll see an increase in speed I'm sure. After that you'll have to wait for HSDPA or a device with wifi to get seemingly broadband fast speeds.