[General Questions and Answers] xaccers:
Can I just make one thing perfectly clear?

I'm not a ruddy android fan!

It's ok, it's usable, I'd go as far as saying it's actually quite good and it's growing on me (and not in an athlete's foot way), but that is only with HTC Sense (giving us a decent mail client woohoo!), stock I find it horrible, not as horrible as WP7, but not far from it. Accidently selecting hyperlinks when trying to zoom in still narks me off though.

It's lacking some decent apps, or features within apps which I've either not found or am actually suprised are missing.

Take navigation for instance, google navigation is "OK" but can I get it to do turn by turn navigation with a 2D map? Nope, not worked that one out yet or it's not currently possible. It's also not great at finding addresses by postcodes wich TomTom has no trouble with, and sometimes the routes (pronounced roots not rowts ;) ) it takes are frankly bizarre. The traffic info in it is very useful, the streetview image when it thinks you've reached your destination isn't, especially when you haven't actually reached your destination.

The stock android keyboard I cannot get on with, it's too similar to the WP7 keyboard which I dislike for exactly the same reasons; why should I have to go to a different overlay to input numbers? Thankfully the HTC keyboard is lovely, just wish it had swype incorporated in it, I'm currently trying ultra keyboard, and while the keyboard layout is like the HTC one, it's word tracing isn't on a par with swype, so I won't be buying the full version.

Google market, the recent bad press about malware apps being uploaded is not good. Without app vetting there will be more cases of this occuring and it will put Joe Public off if it gets a reputation of being a virus heaven. This is something that I think Apple and to my knowledge MS do much better.

Zee, the issue with your posts is that they are making assertions which we know not to be the case.

Take the lag issue, on some handsets I have no doubt that android is laggy, the galaxy s for instance I have heard reports stating that, however that is either down to manufacturers or carriers messing with things and getting it wrong, or handsets with under-par specs (which any smartphone OS would run slow on), so are not due to android, hence why it flies on other hardware.

I know I love my analogies, but it would indeed be like saying XP is a slow OS because when run on a P3 with 64MB of RAM it's slow, when it's actually the hardware which is the bottleneck.

Had you said "I had a Motorola Android Snail phone, it was sooo slow and clunky, really unusable" then I don't think anyone would have had a problem, and if it turned out others had the same phone but weren't experiencing lag, they'd have most likely suggested there was a hardware fault with your handset and to take it back to the store and have a jolly good go at them until they replace it with one you could test before leaving, or suggested any fixes for it if it's a known issue, and of course you shouldn't need to apply a fix to make the phone usable, but some manufacturers/carriers do seem to ignore little things like testing.

I am finding myself using android for longer and longer on my HD2, I can't actually remember when I last used WM, but I won't go NAND just yet because I know if I do, I'll need TomTom.

My next phone is likely to be another HD2, kept as a spare, mostly because I like the hardware, it's the right size, the buttons are in the right places, and there's hardly any wasted space on the front.

If the HD2 is no longer available, or there's some other handset I can get free with a £300-400 ebay value, then I might go for that instead and sell it.