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Fair review, but you've completely missed out on the potential for the Android platform which is why I bought a HTC hero. This phone rocks. 2nd only to the iphone 3gs because it is slightly slower than the iphone and the iphone has more apps. But when you consider the nature of the multitasking operating system you realise that this phone is leagues ahead in sophistication and would be 10x faster than the iphone if it was to implement a single task at a time OS model such as the iphone. The hackability of this phones potential is awesome, apps are easier to create than the iphone, plus did you know that if you have unlimited internet and install the dyndns app you can use the phone as a server? When it comes to apps its behind the iphone in number but googles programming model is designed to overtake it. Heres how: Each phone app is divided into modules (i.e. activities, services, broadcast recievers) this modules can be easily reused and recombined into new applications the potential for rapid app development as well as upgrading applications to use published best of breed solutions is off the charts, apps will be able to be upgrading in seconds.
Granted that the trackball isnt used much, but the potential for the phone still hasnt been reached fully, it will find its place. Google maps isnt a GPS in car navigation app, Google are planning on releasing this next year for free, the rumour is it will also use Streetview. With Streetview, it could become the best GPS package on the market! When the news hit wall street shares in TomTom and Garmin fell by over 10% overnight. Granted iphone is the best at the moment, but if you are looking to make a purchase that will tie you to a phone for the next year or so, IMHO it would not be very smart to get an iphone.