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Here is my ranking of currently available Android phones

1. HTC Droid Incredible (Verizon)
2. Google Nexus One (ATT, T-Mobile)
3. Motorola Droid (Verizon)
4. Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
5. HTC Legend

Here is my ranking of future (available in next 4 months) Android devices

1. HTC EVO 4G – 1GHz Snapdragon/512MB RAM/8MP Cam/720p video recording/WiMax radio
2. Samsung Galaxy S – 1GHz custom Samsung ARM processor/512MB RAM/5MP Cam/4″ Super AMOLED Screen
3. Motorola Shadow (codename?) – 1GHZ Snapdragon/512MB RAM/8MP Cam/720P video recoding/HDMI/QWERTY/4.3″ screen

Personally, I’d get a Nexus One if I could get one for for $199/$299…not $570.  I’m trying to hold out until the Samsung Galaxy S (if it lands on AT&T)….that for the Dell Lightning looks fantastic, even though its a Windows Phone 7 device.

Check back in June for June’s rankings!

The days I have left to torture myself use my X1 are rapidly coming to a close thanks to a drop (and subsequent crack on my touchscreen).  The touchscreen still works, just looks like an unshattered car window.

Over the course of my time with the X1 I have used every version of Windows Mobile 6.1/6.5 with and without HTC Sense/TouchFlo.  I even used Android on it for a little while.  Shouts go out to XDA-Developers.  They made the X1 experience a less painful one.  With that said, here is what I thought over the year and a half I used it.

Pros

• 800×480 touch screen was nice and expansive
• full QWERTY keyboard
• nice aluminum finish
• Built by HTC, so through XDA-Developers, it was infinitely moddable
• 3G+GPS+Wifi+Bluetooth
• Windows Mobile so plenty of third party software exists

Cons

• Build quality sucked
• Build quality sucked
• Build quality sucked: the plastic portions cracked all over the place, wobbly slider, camera buttons, volume buttons lost their tactile feedback, QWERTY keyboard ‘space bar’ cracked and often encountered instances where I pressed keys but nothing was type or typed twice.
• Slow/Buggy: For reasons I still can’t explain, the phone would just freeze and not respond to any sort of touch input, camera was slow to take pictures, software was slow to read memory card (noticeable when playing media).
• Terrible software support
• XPERIA Panels: good concept, bad execution, I never used them for the last 6 months
• Debuted for $800: I paid much much much less for mine however ($1XX).

Overall, it was a decent phone for the time I had it.  I hate that it is literally crumbling in my hands though.  I am moving on to a Motorola Q9h phone until this summer/fall when a multitude of phones drop (Windows Phone 7 Series, Android, iPhone 4?) and my AT&T contract expires.

Also I came to learn that I hate the slideout landscape keyboard form factor.  I prefer a protrait landscape or just a full touch screen device.

I hear the parts market is hot, so this will be on EBay soon….

I’ll have this dilemma.  My current device (Xperia X1) is literally falling apart in my hands.  This past week, half of my keyboard went dead for some time.  Luckily it came back to life.  I’m going to try and nurse it until the summer time, then I have to make a decision…Android vs. Windows Phone 7 Series devices.

Just a quick blurb.  I have use Google for pretty much everything…

• email
• documents
• calendar
• voice
• chat
• rss feed aggregation aka Google Reader
• Youtube
• maps
• search
• news

So it seems as though an Android device, which I can get now if they would release a AT&T 3G compatible Nexus One!  Or I can wait for the unique experience of the WPS7 device.  We’ll see.

On another note, as soon as I can get my hands on some WP7S developer tools, some new applications will be developed and ready for launch in the fall.