Cached pages are a good indication of how fast a client is regardless of connection or server speed.
Despite variations in the hardware used, the BeIA advantage comes in no small part from quickness and agility of the operating system itself as well as the tight integration between the OS and the browser provided by Opera Software. And shortly it will be a pleonastic repetition, as all appliances become IP-enabled. Meanwhile, curious to see the current state of connected appliance art, I bought a Casio PocketPC and a Blackberry pager, and activated the WAP features on my GTE cell phone. In theory, you can play a music file on it while reading and answering mail. In practice, the music hiccups when the CPU is too busy and the OS too tasked to give good service to the music application.