Have Vodafone knobbled the ability to use the phone as a modem?
From what I've read, I'm pretty sure you can use it as a tethered modem, yes, although it isn't officially supported.
there's apps to tether and even make the phone itself a wifi hotspot capable of accepting multiple wifi connections and sharing the internet connection of the phone but these required the phone to be "rooted".. i.e. SuperUser access on the linux kernel
I thought the G2 was what ppl were calling the HTC Magic before it was released (and officially named)? I think the HTC Hero (the upcoming third Android phone) will eventually get Flash, and that should be back-ported to the other phones (slowly - like your wait for Cupcake) eventually.
http://www.htc.com/uk/product/hero/overview.html <-- The HTC Hero or the G2 I think.. which has the 6 desktops, flash support and the 5MP camera i think..
I'm not to bothered by the flash support, just would be cool to be constantly able to check evony ha ha (awesome game by the way www.evony.com or if you want to join the same server as me and also earn me a few credits :P alex-scotton.evony.com)
I'm with T-Mobile and they seem pretty good so far, £30/month, 800 Mins, Unlimited Internet (pretty sure it's literally that, however I think they cap the speed if you go crazy), and Unlimited Texts, Free Phone... Other than of course not knowing how long it'll take for the update to come through;
So far, I've not been massively impressed with the TomTom-like apps in the apps marketplace. Google Maps itself isn't too bad, but it's not really trying to be TomTom.
This is another reason for needing the 1.5 update, being without a car I bike everywhere and currently the Google maps directions prefer to take you via Motorways (car Mode) and has no option to enter into Walking mode.. also Adding my friend whom has Google Latitude would be perfect for meeting up in remote random places..