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It seems like a really fair review. People who want to believe their iPhones are better than everything else will find ammunition to support that claim. People who want an alternative to the iPhone will also find cause to rejoice. I like my iPhone, and I'm not really tempted to switch, but I'm glad to see some serious competition. Here's hoping for continued innovation from every quarter.

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Given the amount of money to be made doing this stuff, it was inevitable that other good smart phones would arise. Props to google for realizing that its the OS that really makes a phone, not the hardware. Obviously, the Droid is a nice piece of hardware, but any other Andriod 2.0 phone will be very close to the same.

I wish Nokia would get their shit together and really make a good OS.

Nokia has had a great OS for years, but the Maemo engineers haven't been allowed to put a radio in their devices until the N900. Now they can.

Definitely: radio is the killer app that will save Nokia.

I think he meant "radio" as in the GSM module.

Unfortunately, Nokia paid the price for dancing with the carriers for too long. I do wonder if Apple is headed down the similar road with the iPhone (i.e. dramatic success that is eventually overtaken because of the entanglements of their required partners - carriers and media companies).

There's a fine line to walk. Nokia went over it a long time ago, and now they're on the opposite side of the line.

Keeping phone and provider separate is great for the consumer, but not in the long run since the phone companies don't get the market they need.

i.e. it would be great if I could use the iPhone on any network I wanted, but without an exclusive deal with AT&T, Apple wouldn't have made the kind of cash it needs to be truly profitable and stay at the top of the market.

Nokia pandered to cell companies for too long, but then went in the exact opposite direction and lost a huge chunk of the US market with them....

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