cellular data performance Q

I have a NextG 1.8MB Telstra mobile, and, I'm connecting from a Palm
h/held over bluetooth 1.1

I've tried downloading some emails with attachments, first, a 1.7MB email
size PDF took about 4 minutes to download;

today, I IMAP/TLS retrieved a 600kb PDF, email size about 826, it took
about 2 minutes; I then SMTP/TLS sent, both sending and retrieving took
about 2 minutes each

I was expecting the Bluetooth 1.1 to be the bottleneck in this, but
going by my IDT Calculator, that's about GPRS speed? for download, for
upload, GPRS should be lot slower than this ?

phone's display is showing a '3g' icon, though

if anyone can enlighten me I'd much obliged


-- 
Voytek

-- 
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html