Mr. Searls, tear down this wall

Doc Searls is griping about the volume of e-mail he's receiving about the new Treo, but is interested enough to check out the specs.

He's was thinking about picking up a Cingular 650:

I've been leaning against it, however, because a) it's too big and complicated, and b) the guy at the store says it won't work as a bridge to the Net for Linux or Mac laptops. Only Windows.

When he learns that his carrier is not releasing a 700p soon, he crafts the metaphor, "being a cell phone customer in the U.S. means living inside some carrier's walled garden."

He writes:

As long as the Net remains a premium feature of cell phones (or cable or telco service), rather than the natural habitat for every form of electronic communication, we'll remain stuck in a world of walled medieval city-states.

It just so happens that he's traveling here to NYC to speak at a two-day Web conference. Fee for entry into this garden is $1400. How about a meet-up, Doc?