Hello!  Android is great!  We've been using iPhones for a few years now, and really thought when the android phones started to come out they were never going to really make it.  (meaning, better than what Apple was doing with iPhones.)

Now that I've had my Nexus One for about a month I can report to everyone what I have learned.  This will come in multiple articles talking about a couple points each hopefully.

Lets get a major problem out of the way, if you are a Microsoft Exchange user the calendar doesn' sync with this phone.  I've setup a google calendar and have my desktop syncing those as a workaround, but this is a problem.

First, the basics.  Apps and Music are a big deal on the iphone, there are LOTS of apps, and it's easy to play music.  Well, the google app marketplace has not been out nearly as long, but so far I have to say I've found everything I wanted and more in the app store.

The apps are just a notch better.  The google maps does turn by turn navigation with your gps turned on.  The speach recognition gives you tips for things like "map of computer repair" and then it does it - and gets it right.  (if you've tried the google search using speach recognition on the iphone you know what I mean)  The browser seems to work as well, maybe better.  Youtube videos in pages show up, and play. 

You have a file manager where you can see the filesystem, you can download and unzip, you can email files off the file system, you can use google docs easier, you have more features that are 'computer-like'.

The apps integrate all the way down in the OS layers like google WANTS you to have fun.  For example, you install a browser and any browser type links ask which browser you want to use, you install a messenger and it'll ask if you want to use that vs. google talk, you install a SIP client (voip client) and it will ask you if you want to call your contacts using the phone,or the SIP phone.  They aren't trying to push you in any direction.  You can check the box to not ask again and move on with your day.

Background apps!  OMG.  Pandora can be minimized, this is coming to iphone, but not like the Android does it.. You can have an app called 'auto responder' that will txt someone back a customized message when you miss a call.  You can have an app that auto creates a contact when you are done talking to someone that isn't in your address book.  You can do MANY more things that Apple is blocking.

Music!  Very important.. I play Pandora and the ipod all the time on the iphone, pandora works BETTER, and the music system will set you free.  Go download doubletwist and you can pretend you have itunes, but without the chains.  You can use the Amazon music store (better.) and get MP3 files instead of proprietary locked files.  You can do WHAT YOU WANT to put it simply.