No, most people have no clue and no idea and no desire to know. Smartphones aren't what they used to be. Smartphones used to be Symbian, windows mobile and palm, but most of all Symbian. A small percentage, mostly geeks used them, less than 10 percent of all phones. Today 25 percent are smartphones, and that percentage is groing fast. Smartphones today are glorified dumbphones with large touch screens running apps. People want "one with touch screen and apps". Then they know Nokia, Samsung, SE, iPhone, HTC and so on. You have to remember that all Android phones give users a unique user experience, Samsung is different from HTC and so on, but every smartphone runs Angry Birds (Symbian, iPhone and Android).

Also remember what happened to the google phone, DOA, people didn,t like it even though it was high end specs and "pure" Android, they would much rather have HTC and Samsung.