[Nexus One General] maxawesome:
The only thing that will pry my N1 from my hands is possibly the HTC HD3, if it and WP7 live up to expectations.

The N1, the EVO, the Incredible, the Desire -- these are all fantastic phones. But none of them fully compensate for the lack of integration with the necessities of the corporate world, full-scale gaming, or at-your-fingertips entertainment.

iPhone OS4 does a much better job of all these things than Android at these points. I nearly choke on those words as they leave my mouth, but it is true.

Android will forever remain "the modder's mobile OS", and iPhone will likely remain "the low-tech geek/douchebag's mobile OS". For me, if the features rolling out with WP7 are as good as slated, the hardware is almost irrelevant (especially given Microsoft's hardline on minimum hardware requirements for a WP7 device).

-Full support for Corporate network policy (Hello Android...my proxy server called and wants to know why the **** you don't want to talk to it)

-Mobile Office 2010

-Mobile Xbox Live gaming

-Silverlight and (eventually) Flash for streaming Netflix (and eventually Hulu)

Don't get me wrong, I have watched Android evolve since 1.0 and it has made amazing progress and strides in its evolution.

But we're arriving at a point where hardware becomes a moot point. Software is what will define each platform more than anything else. The same could not be said when I bought my G1 and held it next to the iPhone 2/3/3GS. Apple had a clear hardware advantage. Even when I held the G1 next to certain Windows Mobile devices (Xperia X1) it couldn't stand up well.

But those days are over. Everything coming out now has at least a 1Ghz snapdragon, 1GB RAM, front-facing camera, wifi, 3g, 4g/LTE or HSPA, 5-8mp cameras and so forth. It comes down now to a matter of usage.

I watched the Apple keynote and was puzzled by things like on-phone video editing tools. Do people really want that? Would they use it?

I'm inclined to think no, but then again, I'm not some artsy-fartsy douchebag in a second-hand fedora pretending to be cultured because I haven't shaved in a year and I only eat cruelty-free wheatgerm pellets.

I'm also not some pre-teen angsty punk rebel hacker anti-social counterculture misfit seeking to define myself through my defiance of what I perceive to be the invasion of the aforementioned artsy-fartsy hipster douchebags.

I'm a guy who likes to do a set of things and wants a phone that is powerful enough in both software and hardware to accomplish those things, on a network that doesn't have its hands down my pants constantly groping for my wallet.

So for me, I think this basically boils down to the following:

1. I will never own an iPhone. They won't cut ties with AT&T, so that decision is even easier for me.

2. I will never go to Sprint or Verizon. Their customer service is garbage, their network coverage in my area is garbage, and their networks are antiquated...you guessed it...garbage.

3. Android still has a long way to go to be an "everything" OS for me.

So for now, I stick with my Nexus One -- the single best phone I've ever owned. The future probably holds a WP7 device for me, and it will likely destroy the N1 and EVO by hardware comparison, because it won't be released for another like 15 minutes or something, and at the rate hardware is progressing, that's like a decade.

Also, it should be noted that while we fight over these phones, other more sophisticated phones have been available to NTT Docomo (Japan) customers for about 6 years or so. Its like arguing over who took 2nd in a race.