Is it too "SF fan" to have a headline "Android demand skyrockets" suggest immediately that there is an android somewhere bellowing "Give me skyrockets now"? Since I do have some taste, it isn't using an Austrian accent...

Or perhaps it's Google's new distribution system? Hooked into Street View, they blast your new phone into a sub-orbital trajectory for a parachute re-entry landing on the customer's doormat. And setting it on fire.

Not much interest in it, first week sales were 'only' 250,000 units....

When you start with next to nothing any gains seems huge! I'm not saying android won't take off, but will people like it enough to stick with it. Most people buy these phones not knowing what they are getting.

'Tis a shame providers where I live (AU) probably won't be offering the Droid in any of their packages 'til 2020. I really want one _<

I returned my HTC Tatoo, and got an iPhone instead when I realised, that you cannot even use Android as a bluetooth dial up or personal area netwrok to get your laptop online and the development team doesnt even have a timeline for implementing it. Android 2.0 does nothing for you here.

I have used this solution for 4 years with many different Nokia phones and I am sick of it. It gets more and more undstable on all their phones as they upgrade there platform. The worst was N95.

With the iPhone and bluetooth PAN my laptop is always connected hi speed to the internet and I never think about the connection to the iPhone. It is always there and it sufffers much less in battery life than the Nokia.

Did anyone else read that their was a possibility of getting these phones free if you got it from Google because the adds and other upcoming features would pay for the phones.

The Pulse? really?

If you weren't living under a rock (in the states) you may have noticed that Verizon bombarded us with Droid advertising. This more than anything has raised awareness of the Droid platform.

Its more the T-Mobile Pulse and similar that have raised the interest in Android.

Once again its down to the prices falling to a reasonable level. Who wouldn't be looking at a £91 smartphone that's basically unlocked, relative to a £500+ Apple unit that keeps telling you "you're not allowed"?

So many companies seem to have forgotten the key to mass acceptance is a two rather than three figure price.