After having an iPhone for the past year and a half, I can't say I'm exactly a fanboy, but I can see why Engadget and BGR speak so highly of it. If it weren't for the iPhone, there wouldn't be phones like the Droid coming out and challenging it. So for that purpose alone, the iPhone deserves some respect. That said, I'm very excited about the Droid, and would probably choose it over the iPhone even if iPhones were on Verizon's network. I get a little tired of the walled garden of Apple, and to do anything really interesting on the iPhone requires a jailbreak. Jailbreaking takes away any of the simplicity factor that people generally think of regarding the iPhone - I had to jailbreak it 3 times in the course of three months because Apple found ways to force a restore that broke the Jailbreak. Seriously turned me off to Apple. If I pay $300 for a device, I should be able to do whatever I want to with it. Very much looking forward to the openness of the Android platform and hoping they catch up to Apple very soon with things like pinch and zoom, internal memory capacity for apps, and mainstream apps. Go Android! The more people that buy these phones, the more likely we are to see more app development.