Who says you can't talk on your phone inflight?

Check out the latest news from Emirates on making mobile calls inflight...yet another reason to go to Dubai!

As for the internet, yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. Just got back from my Asia trip on Singapore Airlines, and by golly, you can definitely access the internet on your laptop inflight. Thank goodness for business class (although something tells me to those SIA people probably offer internet for the entire plane...). The guy next to me kept checking his Yahoo! mail, which annoyed me to no end, for a whole host of reasons in addition to just his screen being bright during a transpacific flight. ;-)