Filipe M.

And another recent Android convert here. Having used Windows Mobile 6.x for over 3 years now, I made the move to Android a few weeks ago.

Thoughts so far? It's brilliant, and you can pretty much pay as much as you want to use it. Right now you can spend £100 for a decent phone or £500 for top of the range hardware, and unless you're going to run heavy games on it, you'll be just fine. I got the portuguese equivalent to the Orange San Francisco, and for the price (a little over £100) I have 480x800 screen, GPS (with AGPS), digital compass, accelerometer, proximity sensor, 512 MB of ram, and can use SD cards up to 32 GB. The only thing where you can see it's not a top phone is the CPU (600 MHz), but to be honest, unless I'm running games, I couldn't care much less, especially at this price point.

Sure, the iPhone 4 is prettier (I honestly think it's the best looking phone on the market right now), but I'm not willing to pay over £500 for one or be tied to an expensive monthly contract just to have on in my pocket. I also hate the iTunes dependency for file transfer. I do use iTunes as library organiser but out of option and as a reminiscence of my MacOS days, not because I have to. I just love the fact that I can get up to any computer with my phone, plug it in (with a non-proprietary, standard micro USB cable, btw) and just transfer files without any configuration or software installation whatsoever.

And btw, if Apple were so sure of their market position and superiority, there might not be rumours of a mini iPhone running around right now... Apple were good once. Then they were brilliant. And then they started relying on design and ease of use / idiot proof features to get people to buy their stuff...