[HD2 General] horiace:
I have both, HD2 and Nexus and I can tell you that Nexus is inferior to HD2.

1. Starting with the OLED screen which is supposed to be better than the LCD screen in HD2. This is not the case. HD2 screen is better.

2. Next issue for me is the battery life. Shorter for Nexus.

3. Screen size is the most important advantage for web browsing. HD2 is the first device I can realy use w/o pain for internet. Opera is fine for most web sites, for those with flash I'm using Skyfire. In some rare ocasions I'm using IE, because it's the most compatible browser.

Browsing with Nexus is not the same. Not only the screen is smaller but also the whole process is slower and not so smooth like with Opera on HD2

4. Contacts/Calendar/Tasks/Notes sync? No way with Android. You can only do syncing contact and calendar with google, if you are confident in google keeping your private info. There is no Notes application included in Android, just third party apps. The latest update said there is a possiblility to sync with an Exchange server, however I don't have an Exchage server and if I would have such a server in my company I would never put my private info in it.

I hade however to sync HD2 with Nexus. Very funny task. I exported a comma sepparated value list from Outlook (csv file, contacts only) to HDD, then I used a gmail account to import it, then I synced Nexus with gmail, than I deleted the gmail account. Very professional, can tell this to any geek looking to buy an Android device.

5. Word, Excel, PP files? No way.

6. Telephone operation? I like more the phone app w/i HD2. For one very good reason, which came from WinMo OS.

You can dial a name using the numeric keyboars, because WinMo do instant search for all contacts matching the numbers you dialed (2,a,b,c 3,d,e,f 4,g,h,i etc) This is a very important feature because makes the dialing process as fast as it can be. The phone app in Nexus does not have such a feature. However, you can press the search key, which opens the tiny android keyboard. Very tiny because the phone is in portret mode when dialing. Then, if you have small fingers, you can press the first letter from the name, then select from the matching list which appears in the front of the screen. Then click on Call. Being familiar whith the dialing process in HD2, you can imagine that I scream every time I have to call somebody from the Nexus One.

7. Copy/Paste? Not always possible in Android apps.

8. I could not figure why they included the trackball. It's useless.

9. The signal sensibility is not so good for Nexus, especially for WLAN. In my home flat I constantly lose connectivity with the Nexus, never with HD2 or the Vaio notebook.

10. The light sensor is behaving erratic. If I check Automatic Brightness the screen is dimmed sometime for no apparent reason. Might be a bug which will be fixed in the future upgrades.

I like the Android desktop and the way you can customise it. However, considering how useful it is I have to admit that Sense gives more useful features (info and interraction).

The only aspect where Android is better is related to apps available to free download. There are a lot, some of them good and useful. For HD2/WinMo, good apps are not for free, even they are not expensive.

However, some apps are not available on WinMo. For example the augumented reality app which has only the Android version. You might argue that is not useful and I have to add: Now.

But it's a very promising concept.