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I've had an Android 2.1 phone for the last few days ago, and while there's no chance of it replacing my N900 as my primary device the one stand out feature of the device is the ease with which I can find and install applications from the Android Marketplace app. The app loads quickly, searching is super quick, apps download and install in the background.

Compare and contrast with Ovi Store which is cludgy and slow, searching is random, and the App Manager is just a disaster as it simply does not scale - I have to wait two to three minutes for App Manager to get on with the download and install, and it does these each and every app - 10 apps, half an hour of time wasted (on Android, no such delays). The fact Ovi has to use App Manager to install rather than installing silently in the background makes the experience worse than it needs to be.

There's really not much else I like about Android 2.1 compared with Maemo5 - the selection of Android apps is obviously greater but the biggest win for Android is the usability of the app store.