As anyone who works on the fly today knows, it’s all about the roaming speed. So what’s the new boffo gadget out there that actually works?

As fabulous as it is, you didn’t really think the iPhone was going to have the super-smart-phone/ portable-entertainment-device/ Web-surfer market all to itself, did you? Enter HTC’s Mogul, which can do nearly everything the iPhone can do. Sure, it lacks the cool commercials and touch-screen gee-whizziness, but it offers much more truly useful functionality for people who work for a living.

The Mogul has Wi-Fi, too, but unlike the iPhone, which slows to a crawl when not in a Wi-Fi hotspot, the Mogul, which rides on Sprint’s blazing EV-DO cell network, is fast everywhere. So instead of waiting 20 seconds to be able to start reading CNN.com, you’ll wait six. Plus, typing Web addresses, e-mail replies and notes to self is much simpler on the Mogul’s slide-out qwerty keyboard than on the iPhone’s snazzy but awkward onscreen version. If anything, the Mogul has too many buttons compared to Apple’s model of minimalism, but your perfunctory side will appreciate the dedicated doodads for tasks like send and end for phone calls.

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