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It depends on what you want/need to do with your phone.

If you travel internationally, The Nexus One is a great choice because it's GSM. You'll have to put up with T-Mobile/AT&T in the states, but when you're abroad, just pop in a foreign SIM card and you're good to go.

If you want the fastest internet with no caps, look at the EVO from Sprint. With 4G speeds from 3-6Mbps in about 2 dozen cities and a hotspot supporting up to 8 devices, you can almost use it as your only internet connection at home.

If you do a lot of texting/emailing, the Droid from Verizon is about the best Android phone around with a slide out keyboard, plus you get a reliable network to back it up.

I guess in the end you have to decide what you want and go from there...

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I do have to say I still haven't gotten entirely used to the keyboard on the Droid. It can be hard to tell where the individual keys are, and the keys are a little shallow so it's not the most responsive.

Another benefit for the Nexus One is that it does seem to get updates the soonest out of all the Android phones, whereas I'm still waiting for 2.2 on my Droid. Hopefully it'll be updated soon though now that Froyo has been open sourced.

UMTS (3G) with HSDPA is also 3-6Mbps. Depending on your carrier its available in all major cities in Germany.

The Droid is a great phone too. I think I like the screen better than that of the Nexus One.

I just can't get into the Evo. If you haven't held one in your hand, you don't understand the size of this thing. It feels like talking into a paperback copy of The Catcher in the Rye.

My girlfriend has an EVO and man is that thing huge. I have pretty big hands (i can span a tenth on a piano and palm a basketball) and my first thought was that the EVO is uncomfortable for me to hold as a phone. I say as a phone because I realized that she uses it as a replacement for her Viliv S5 tablet (before that she had a Nokia N800). Most of the time she uses it in landscape mode as more of an internet tablet (video chat, browsing, texting), and she never holds it up to her ear (uses bluetooth instead). When you look at it that way, it's not so big after all.

> my first thought was that the EVO is uncomfortable for me to hold as a phone

FWIW, I still feel weird when I hold my Nexus up to my head to take a call. I don't think of it as a phone at all; it's a handheld computer that happens to be able to interface with the global legacy telephone system.

Also, the Droid X will launch in August or so, so if you go that route you may want to wait a few months (it also doesn't have the droid's fiddly d-pad.

The Droid X comes out in July and does not have a keyboard. It's basically an EVO clone.

You're probably thinking of the Droid 2.

that's an interesting device. any word on the battery life?

There is always a new android phone coming out, which is bigger and better than the last. Some people like this, some people don't.

There is always a new iPhone coming out, which is bigger and better than the last. Everyone seems to love this.

That's sufficiently not true as to be completely false.

Douglas Adams? Dude, welcome back from the grave.

The difference being, that a new iPhone comes out once a year, at around the same time. So you can buy a new iPhone now, realising that there is no point updating it for a year.

With mandatory two-year contracts, that makes for potential unhappiness.

Nope.

You can buy it outright in most of the world.

Lots of places have 12 month contracts (Optus in Australia).

And lots of companies are letting you get out early (ATT).

There seems to be lots of lies in this thread, something I don't expect to see on hacker news.

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