To begin, I bought the iPhone because I wanted the REAL internet on my phone, not to have some watered down "mobile" crap. I wanted the real internet so that if I was on the road and needed to look up some information, I could do so easily without using WEP or WAP or whatever it was called. For the most part, the iPhone's browser is the real internet, without Flash and true Java support. For 90% of my web browsing needs, it works.
Overall, I don't typically use my iPhone to "surf", that is, unless I'm sitting on a toilet somewhere baking moist'n'chewy chocolate muffins. As I'm sure everyone else would agree, I really would like to get Flash support and true JAVA support on the iPhone, but I don't see that coming in the near future. It's not really been a major problem because the majority of the websites I visit on my iPhone don't need Flash or Java to run properly. I could see how people who want to ditch their laptops for an iPhone would want the full features though.
Other than that, when I do use my phone to browse, I mainly use it for looking up information or to read news or weather. I look up restaruants, or keep track of e-bay accounts (doing everything else I can't do with the eBay app), but that's about it.
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