I was an early adopter of the open source G1 Android phone (see my FR home page), and after 6 months of use, have nothing but good things to say about it. My experience is that the OS is fast and very stable. And the applications offered by developers are many and varied, and very useful, most free. And more are coming online every day. I would consider nothing but an Android OS phone when I upgrade.
Also, Google keeps updating the OS in releases. A major release with many significant feature upgrades just came out, called “cupcake”. And another one is slated, called “donut”. And as with many phones, you don’t have to buy the latest expensive model to get the Android OS upgrade with the new features — they come over the air free to the existing handsets.
18 to 20 Android handsets are expected to launch by the end of 2009, Android is on the move.
Android looks cool. I saw photos of it a couple months ago....about as cool as the Mac OS I still want but haven’t gotten yet because Macs are more expensive.
Android hopefully runs as good as it looks.
How much memory does one get on a cellphone? Linux of late, which had once had an economy like that of the old Sun workstations (40 whole megabytes of memory? wow! I can put everything on this screen!) has now gone the way of the gigabyte bloatware of Gates. Don’t even think of trying to kick off this year’s Ubuntu distros on a 10 year old computer.