I have picked out anothercomment from James for the front page today concerning Android- “The real fact of the matter is that most users neither know nor care about the differences between their phones, or at least not to the extent that they know their OS version and carefully track its capabilities. What’s left to throw into a phone these days anyway? Just “more” really – more speed, more memory. 4G is undoubtedly the next bullet point waiting to be thrown into a phone’s sales pitch. I can’t think of anything else on the horizon, unless I’m missing something.
I think Android’s going to be the biggest OS of them all, but will actually be a more “quiet” OS, with most consumers having little idea about what’s going on under the hood of their phones and rarely taking full advantage of their phone’s capabilities. Sort of like Symbian. Look at the ads – they don’t say “with Android 2.1.” They say, “with Google.” They’re selling on brand, not specs. Technically speaking, the iPhone is “with Google” too.
But the only benefit of Android to the common handset manufacturer is the Google brand and the fact that it’s free. Nobody’s going to have an “iPhone killer.” If Motorola thinks it’ll ever truly repeat the success of the Razor, it’s in for a really big disappointment.“
Biggest problem with Android in Australia is no networks carry them… You can buy them outright if you have the cash, but to get on contract neither Virgin and Three (the only too with decent priced data caps) offer ANY android devices.. Three used to have the G2 but sold out and dropped it, they have plenty of windows mobile and of course the iphone and blackberry.. Virgin believe the only smartphones in the world are iphone and have no android offers or windows mobile or blackberry..
Optus have some BUT they have blocked paid apps in the marketplace as they are trying to negotiate a share from google, and are getting no where for the last year and have kept paid apps blocked the whole time..