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The Open Handset Alliance has extended an invitation to Asus this week which I see as an extremely smart and important move if consummated.
Asus had effectively kicked off the recent economical ultra portable laptop market and could provide the true revolution in mobile phones by creating a Smart Phonetop.
This Smartop phone should form the bridge [...]

To which the iPhone has already and that Android will be expanding upon is the United States role reversal from Europe in leading wireless development.
This can be seen in the European Symbian Foundation playing catch up with the increasingly popular American iPhone and Android mobile software by broadening its membership today to include Acrodea, Brycen, HI Corporation, Ixonos, KTF, Opera Software, Sharp, TapRoot Systems and [...]

The main complaint now with the new v0.9 Android SDK released by Google is that there is no Bluetooth support.
Google stated in their documentation, due to significant API changes in the upstream open-source project and due to the timeline of getting certain Bluetooth profile implementations certified, a comprehensive Bluetooth API will not be possible or present [...]

Scott Loganbill wrote an interesting article at Wired’s WebMonkey on what the iPhone has and a premature assessment of what Android does not.
To be fair he did previously write five reasons why Android might triumph, but yet he presents six for why not.
They are the following with my summation:

Celebrity Skin - Has the “IT” appeal equivalent [...]

Google is looking to alleviate mobile operators fears of malicious and buggy Android applications being created by the global developer community at large via a proposed star rating system.
Rich Miner, group manager of Google’s Android mobile technology, spoke at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit last week about how the mobile carriers are concerned most about Android users [...]