Some idiot makes the claim that EDGE is just fine and you don't need 3G for web-browsing. The author claims that pure bandwidth doesn't matter, and that latency is more important to the user experience (which I totally agree with) but then goes on to state that 3G has worse latency than EDGE, which is completely bogus.

I can't imagine the author had ever used a (working) 3G network, because in my experiance (using a Motorola Razr V3xx on AT&T/Cingular), the 3G network has ping times of 200ms, while the EDGE network has 800ms ping times. This means that when you click on a link using EDGE it takes about a second for the page to start loading, but if you are using 3G the web pages respond much faster! 

Using my phone's WAP/HTML browser is MUCH more responsive on the 3G network than on the EDGE network. (I switch to edge in some subway stations). The same thing applies to Google Maps (J2ME on the phone) which is much more usable on 3G, so this applies for apps that do intelligent caching as well as web browsing.

Bottom line, if you can get 3G instead of EDGE, do so!