Android is a great OS, and it’s a great great thing happening to the mobile world.

All existing Android phones (including the G1 and Magic) are going to get OTA upgrades to Android 2.0 (or above), and insisting to continuously complain about Android 1.5 when Android 2.0 is already out there makes no sense at all and doubts your professionalism.

(It’s as if you were complaining on Windows Vista, now that Windows 7 is out…)

No “moms” need to download any task killer.

Android OS will automatically kill background tasks whenever the current task visible to the user, needs more memory. Did you ever get a “not enough memory to run application” message? I don’t think so…

There are excellent keyboard replacements on the market with predictive text.

Synchronization is simply excellent, my e-mail, my calendar, and all other Google services, are available on my mobile and PC without any effort on my side. Not even a “synchronize now” button, nothing. Synchronization happens behind the scenes and is done automatically.
Same goes to my Facebook and Twitter with some free apps from the market.

The market has some great apps. Want good apps? Download the ones that have high ratings.

Unless you change the title of this article to “5 reasons why Samsung Galaxy with Android 1.5 is not there yet”. This article is uselss, obsolete and most of all, biased.

Regards,
Lior

You asked, ” find it curious that Google does not seem to be pushing the OEMs or users towards the latest Android OS” it’s imply because they can’t! This, to me, is the most challenging aspect of the Android platform for Google, it’s OEMs, and especially developers. The iPhone IS the iPhone and as a developer I know what my target is. When looking at Android all bets are off! Not only do you need to deal with multiple versions of the OS, but multiple different hardware iterations, and then add any cell carrier changes, and you don’t know what you’re in store for (no pun intended).

Since the phones are different, hardware wise, and the carrier’s changes in software so varied, it’s VERY VERY difficult for anyone to be ready when Google launches an update. It will be like the PC market all over again on the phone and other than us geeks, I really don’t think the general public is going to accept it.

People complain about Apple, most seem to me to be from just the other side of the Apple fanboy coin, and that’s too bad because there is much for Apple to improve upon. But I agree with the author that for a phone, a general purpose, small computing device, the iPhone and it’s ecosystem are perfect! I usually call it my “Mom Test” if my mom can use it without any issues, it will have broad market appeal.

I laughed as I read Jake’s comments. I mean please you are not a large enough market my friend. My “mom” is not going to download TasKiller or even understand what it is or why she needs it. The phone just needs to work and can’t allow some crazy CPU sucking app to sit in the background killing the battery. It doesn’t pass the “Mom Test” and THAT, along with potential PC like plethora of hardware OEMs will be what will limit Android to people like us and as I said we’re not even close in numbers to the 10 million and counting iPhone Moms.