As reported by TUAW and MacRumors.com, AT&T is offering free Wi-Fi to iPhone owners at Barnes and Noble, Starbucks and “71,000 other locations.” When you connect to the network, you’ll encounter a nicely designed portal where you type in your mobile number and then *poof!* you have Internet access. This is a nice solution to know about when you really need hi-speed Internet instead of the Edge network.*
*There are rumors floating that iPhone 2.0 will be a 3G capable phone (trans: fast connection). We’ll have to wait and see if this is true.