Jealous? Naaahhh. It's on T-Mob. And like needsdecaf said above, if I wanted a nice phone on a lousy network I would have just gotten an iPhone.
I had the Motorola Droid before the Eris, and while I do miss that large, vivid screen that now the Nexus One has, one thing I still prefer is the physical call and end buttons. Don't think you could have them without changing the size of the phone, which would be a no-go for me. So while I would like the higher resolution, I'll accept the trade off of having the physical buttons any day of the week.
As far as the OS goes... Googles demo shows that 2.1 has "tap" zoom like the Droid, so I don't thing they have it working with the Sense GUI completely yet... I had read earlier in one of the articles that mentioned all the Droid phones that Google was limiting 2.1 to "their" phone for a while. Don't know what the source of information was (inside Google or HTC), but that makes sense. Maybe if we get the 2.0 update, Sense UI will still work (mainly pinch zoom), and if we get 2.1 we'll lose it until the next update, but either way I look forward to getting ONE of these updates.
Finally, to "Verizon's" statement that they'll get a CDMA version of this phone in the spring... It wouldn't surprise me at all if it doesn't happen until the Holiday shopping season (around November) of next year. Remember, we've all been told and told that our OS would be upgraded "soon." Then it was "December," now it's "first quarter 2010" which in reality could be March 31 (THREE MORE MONTHS).
Maybe they will get it, but then it will still be just like a mix of our phone and the Motorola Droid... not enough for me. The whole idea of Google getting into this market is to make a phone "portable." In other words, an unlocked phone not tied to any carrier.
Until all carriers get on a common technology (CDMA vs. GSM vs. LTE) and then make it truly open here in the U.S., then the Google phone, or any phone for that matter, will only be as good as the network it's on...
Google does, however, have the brainpower and ca$h to be a game changer. And THAT is exciting. I'd love to have a glimpse at the power of these devices in about 20 years... Get the technology away from carriers whose interests are self serving and into the hands of a company who is known to think outside the box and, well... Just look at what Google did to all the old "internet" companies that combined their service, their e-mail, and their search engines (think AOL) into a single mandatory package. Kind of sounds like the iPhone.
