What is BT Broadband "Anywhere" now?

A great idea three+ years ago; broadband anywhere with BB talk and VOIP on the handsets of Anywhere.
But where is and what is it now?  It is a HTC Hero and HTC Touch2 unbranded without any BT software on it.  There is no VOIP / Snap and Send app on either, so the handsets are factory ready, but not in any sense related to BB Talk.
Some customers will still have their 620 / 710 on contract for £5 a month, many of us have long gone, seeking greener and better pastures with other operators sadly
So, the brilliant (IMHO) of Anywhere appears to be no-where in particular, except for a windows and an android phone that has been long since overtaken in the charts. 
So, what, (rhetorically) is next I wonder? Is BT in the mobile market, or has the rest of the world got it wrong, and we will all be on land-lines and mobiles/smartphones are a thing of the past (not).
AQ.
"Welcome to Royston Vasey - You'll never leave."

Having recently moved from 3 to Orange as my main mobile phone provider, and on to a Samsung Galaxy Europa (a vast improvement on my Touch 2, though I know I am not comparing like for like), I was also wondering what the future of BTBBA is for me.
I pay what, £15 per month for 10mb of data which is pointless.
I use the phone as a wifi MP3 player using BeyondPod. I did use MyPlayer but the BBC Iplayer seems to have gone off this and frankly the free apps for the Touch are so limited I rarely check the Market for any thing new.
Ok, maybe the point was that the Anywhere component came from BT Openzone/Fon, but I read so many threads about problems logging on that this does not really appear feasible, even less so for me in Middlesbrough where I struggle to find a working hotspot.
With hindsight the concept was good but the execution has been poor. My plan to ditch the real mobile phone provider which I wanted to do in favour of BTBBA has been shelved. The £15 per month is simply not good value. I could have a wifi MP3 player that would be as much use as the Touch 2.
Add to that the fact I can get my BT email on either my 3 or now my Orange phone anywhere but can't, without paying even more to BT, on BTBBA handset, and the experiment seems to be heading in one direction with the end of my BTBBA contract when the term ends. Sorry BT. Love the BB and Vision, but BTBBA is going the way of the Dodo for me.

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