Android based smart phone

[meton_magis]

I've had a motorola droid since December, and I love the thing. I'm wondering how many people have an android based device.

Several options COULD overlap, so just pick one that best expresses your mood towards the OS.

[zyy2010]

In my opinion, the android is a new kind of phone now. A little people have it.

[Cabhan]

I've been using a Droid since January, and I love the little guy. I'm not seeing as many great apps as the iPhone has, but I feel that the overall environment is much nicer, and it seems much more designed towards how I want it, as opposed to how His Jobsness imagines I should be using his computers. Also, as someone who has developed for both systems, I prefer Android development .

[meton_magis]

I've never used the iPhone OS, but I hear from people who've used both that while the iPhone has more apps, for the most part, everything is covered under both phones. One may have more fart soundboards, but every app that's truly unique exists on both, or has alternatives.

[Rubberman]

I got my Nexus One at the Linux Collaboration Summit this past April, and like it quite a bit. I installed the beta 2.2 code as soon as I could get it, and then manually installed the release version a couple of weeks ago, and then it was updated in the normal course of events yesterday, so it is running the latest version. Tethering works great, as does the WiFi hotspot. I have an AT&T account and it does EDGE just fine, but I haven't seen it use the 3G yet. Edge is really slow to use as a computer tether (about 200kbps) compared to my Sprint CDMA modem (up to 2mbps, 1+ being normal), so I haven't dropped my Sprint account yet, and for hotspot access you don't want to download anything of size. I have got it to play HD video at 720x480 resolution, and mp3's are great. My main complaint in the video dept is that you have to transcode everything to mp4 format to run. I'd think it should run Mastroika (mkv) HD videos, but it doesn't, nor mpeg1, mpeg2, or avi files. Oh well, I'm sure that will be fixed sometime soon...

[meton_magis]

mkv is just the container, so I'd immagine that if you have a h.264 video in an mkv container, someone would have written a market app that can decode the mkv container, and play the video. Since mkv is such a small part of the file, the cpu could handle it fine, without needing the gpu.