Bingo, it was a Google decision.

As for the Eris and Hero, well isn't that HTC Sense UI on top of Android? And for Milestone (not the Google Experience Phone) it is Motorola placing a little extra on top.

It is just you.

The phone has a metal housing, it is rock solid. The only problem I see is it might be too heavy for some of the little girls on here.

Please shut up until you know what you are talking about.

Verizon charges extra if you use their Exchange server. If you use your own, it is just the regular data plan.

Every single possible connections and test pin is brought out to the edge of the board. In your phone the same connections are very, very small and often buried in the board itself. On a development board everything is reachable. Actually in your phone those test pins aren't reachable at all, just a testing port.

Think about your car. It is hard to reach a lot of the stuff in the engine because they crammed into such a small space. Now take that engine and spread it out a lot so that everything was easily reachable. Wouldn't that make your car easier to debug and test? Than when the engine would great you shrink it back down to fit.

(bad analogy but it works)

To bad you guys don't understand what you are looking at. This board was at the ARM conference recently, it blows away anything you are talking about today. There is an ARM Cortex A9 in there, that would be a dual core ARM Cortex A8. And the Mali-400 is a beast!

Forget Snapdragon and Tegra. Those chips are VW Beatles next to this Ferrari. The hardware in the iPhone? Not even close.

@ iJames White

Wow, you really are an idiot who knows nothing about cell phones. You couldn't be dumber.

To begin with, Droid has a 550MHz OMAP3 which contains a Cortex A8 core. Now go a read what that means before continuing.


Droid Doesn't have 100,000+ Apps
the point here? and how many apps have you downloaded?
Droid Doesn't have 45+ million user
and neither does the iPHONE (iTOUCH does not count)
Droid Doesn't have a fast processor
same core idiot, but Droid has better co-processors so it is faster.
Droid Doesn't have a solid Build
Droid is made with Metal. Pop quiz genius, what is strong metal or plastic?
Droid Doesn't know how to be original(cough, iPhone copy)
Original, you mean being a touchscreen (iPhone) like the Motorola Ming?
Droid Doesn't have a File Manager
Idiot. It has more ability to customize and change, benefit of openness. Apple should try it.
Droid Doesn't have over 16GB of internal memory
Uh, 16GB SD card included. You need it for songs, and the Droid can upgrade (oops, can iPhone upgrade?)
Droid Doesn't have unlocked WiFi
It does, you fail.
Droid Doesn't have the greatest mobile OS
I'll take Android, you can your closed little toy OS.

Everything the Droid Doesn't have, the iPhone does.
Your points...epic fail. try again.

This is funny. Other times Engadget got a roadmap they were all over it, this time they don't believe it.

This is a real roadmap for the GSM phones. Tablet means no keyboard.

Look around CES all you like, but you have the information here and you are ignoring what you have.

Uh, the iPhone is a great hype phone but for those of us that actually use our phone a lot it sucks.