Hackers will love this phone. It is powerful, featureful, and very easy to develop for. It took me 5 minutes to write my first demo app and have it running on the phone while the debugging info was streaming into Eclipse.

The Android will be very successful. No wonder T-Mobile keeps running out of units.

But why do I wish I had an iphone instead?

Both phones have the same features, and the G1 has a bigger keyboard. But the iphone interface is sleeker, there are many more applications available and the kinks have been already worked out. Apple has two years headstart over Google and it shows.

The Android will catch up to the iPhone in 6-12 months.

Until then I will keep lusting for an iPhone.