So what's the betting that Apple will reject the upcoming Spotify app too.
Way to drive more of us to Android guys....

Great new UI, but as above, we are waiting for a real 'killer' hardware device.

Once 2.0 donut is here later this year, that will enable WVGA screens. Then we'll just be waiting for the likes of Samsung to start putting android on their high end harware.
Imagine Android on a 12Mp samsung phone, with WVGA(800x480) OLED screen, HD video recording and HDMI out.
I'd sell my granny for that .....

Look at that 'Multitasking' button on the lower left. Even LG's 'dumb' smartphone can manage it.

Apple- please stop treating us as if we are complete dummies and give us multitasking. Otherwise we could end up with some horrible, messy bodge like push notifications instead. Oh, wait........

Been using it this morning and it is very very nice. Noticeably smoother and faster than Opera mobile 9.5. Best browser on WM by far.
It does the great WVGA screen on my Touch HD justice.

IE, even the latest version on WM6.5, is a big pile of stinking crap compared to this. IE is slow, has terrible slow scrolling in comparison.

But Opera have removed the zoom bar, and so all we have is the double-click zoom. Which on my WVGA screen means it zooms in way to far. I can read text much smaller on this great screen. so give us back out zoom bar

What, a whole new model this year ? Possibly even 2 ?

I'll just wait and pick one of the 18 or so Android handsets coming this year. Or maybe the dozens that will arrive next year.

I can see what's going to happen here. I think the iPhone will become more like the Macs, and be the 'premium' device. Android phones will end up with the more numbers and so many of them will be available, from more expensive, quality models to more 'cheap and cheerful' ones.

Take the example of a friend of mine last month looking for his first ever smartphone. I recommended an iphone to him, for it's sheer simplicity and ease of use. After looking into it he decided against it ( he though it had too many restrictions as to what he can do) and decided to go with Android (HTC Magic). He realises that in a years time when he gets a new phone again, he'll have a wide selection of Android phones.
Dylan

(Oh, and he absolutely loves his Magic and drives his fiancee nuts playing with it all the time !)

This should be popular.

The UK version, Magic, was bought by a friend of mine as his first ever smartphone (After he rejected my suggestion of an iPhone as being too restrictive)

He absolutely fell in love with it. It's surprisingly nice to use and look at, and he loves the apps he has on it and keeps finding more and more and is very happy he didn't get an iPhone.

This will attract those people who thought that the G1 was a bit too bulky, and aren't bothered about a keyboard.

Yes that looks sweet.

I can see that from the icon size on the home screen that it looks like a WVGA(800x480) device.
And those widgets too look good. Android is going to get very, very good.

Well they need something to wow us this year on WM, and it certainly aint going to be WM6.5, from what I've seen running the latest versions of it on my Touch HD. Most of the changes they've made are already being done better by HTC's latest TouchFlo3D v 3.

And Windows mobile Media Player is truly, truly awful. I mean really bad. It could do with a replacment, and one with podcast support like Zune software would be ideal. It would save me having to use third party rss readers to download my podcasts.

So forget about a zune phone, just give all of us Wm users a good multimedia experience with Zune Software. after all, *worldwide* WM devices still outsell the iPhone.

For gods sake, stop this pathetic iPhone v Android crap.

Thank god we have BOTH of them. Decent competition will drive more and more and more features for both platforms in the coming years.

True, Apple are a bit restrictive and have been slow with some features, but they are getting there. But they changes the way we use our phones forever with the iPhone and I salute them.

Android- well, it's hardy even started yet. In a years time it will have matured when you can choose from a dozen or so handsets from 4+ manufacturers. Has good potential, but not there quite yet. Dont forget, this is 1.5 they are talking about. Wait till version 2 or 3 of software and it should be great.

Which would I choose ? If I could have android 1.5 on a phone similar to my Touch HD then I'd love it.
Which would I recommend to friends ? iPhone for ease of use and range of apps.

No matter what android phone you buy over the next 12 months- you know that within 3-6 months there will be a new, shinier, more powerful phone released.
I'm on Orange here in the UK, and they normally get HTC phones first. I'm due a free phone upgrade at the end of January but I figure that within a few months there would be a HTC Android phone being made available on the network. And this looks like exactly that which makes me very happy bunny indeed :)