Apple iOS 4, in light of Android 2.2
Apple's forthcoming iOS 4 will be ready to update iPhones and iPod Touches in two weeks. It will turbocharge existing iPhones without a doubt, but how does the new operating system stack up to Android's 2.2 (Froyo) release?
It's true that Apple's iOS 4 is a far more dramatic update from iPhone OS 3.0 than is Android 2.2 from 2.1. iOS 4 gets a handful of features that the iPhone was sorely missing on the software front: multitasking, threaded e-mail, folder support, and tethering--which Apple CEO Steve Jobs didn't mention in Monday's keynote. Compare this with the Android 2.2 update that Google announced in late May that gave Android phones support for Flash, speedier processing, and tethering/hot spot support for up to eight devices, and you'll see that iPhone users will see a hefty spike in their quality of mobile life.
