UTStarcom PPC-6700 / XV-6700 / HTC Apache

Thinking of getting the VX6700 for email usage. I want access to my personal Outlook folders on my office computer, so Blackberry and Treo won't work. I am assuming I'll need to access my email through the web with Outlook Exchange server, as I would on a computer at a hotel business center etc. Can any of you tell me how this device would function for that kind of application? Will the speed and data transmission capacity from their EVDO network be sufficient to open my email account via Outlook Exchange server? Or will I have to find a wirelss hot spot? And what exactly is Verizon's broadband access? Have tried Verizon cust svc, with no luck-no one seems to know what the answer is.