This is the first of what I can probably guarantee you will be several posts about the Apple iPhone 3G, now that I am lucky enough to have what is easily the best cell phone currently on the market.

3G service has been touted as fast (at least by cell phone standards) for a long time now, but I’ve always been curious as to exactly how fast it is and haven’t really taken the time to actually look it up or test it – until I installed Speedtest from Xtreme Labs. To be honest, I was surprised. I figured it was a few times faster than 56k, but I didn’t think it would actually qualify as broadband. Here are my results: