This just reminds me of how he iPhone isnt a very powerful or capable platform when you take the OS out of it
Most phones aren't very capable without an OS tbh.
I must disagree with you there. This is an early alpha with no hardware acceleration and debug information enabled, which slows things down. Not to mention there's a garbage collector running in the background.
Once this is optimised, it'll be able to run as smooth as the iPhone os. In this state it's doing quite well considering.
Sure, it will run better with optimization for the platform, I have no doubt about that. However, regardless of the final performance, it will not be on par with other top-end Android phones (until the 4G comes out most likely). I'm just trying to say that the iPhone product itself hasn't changed much since the launch, the screen resolution still leaves much to be desired.
Whenever you run a non-native OS on any device it really brings out the "flaws" of a device, particularly the performance and screen resolution.
I'm just trying to say: The iPhone, even the 3GS, is becoming a thing of the past in terms of hardware. It used to be ahead of the pack, now with it's yearly iterations it's slowly leaving with the only thing holding it at the front being the software. Hopefully the iPhone 4G will address this issue, but as it stands right now the iPhone is falling behind (seriously, after 3 years it still has the same crappy resolution?)
You do realize that the 2g Iphone was out a full year before the g1 launch right? and btw 480-by-320-pixel resolution is not a "crappy resolution" Video and Web still look really sharp on the iphone. On a side note it been pretty much confirmed that iPhone 2010 has 940x640px resolution thus greatly surpassing Nexus One: 800 x 480 pixels...Also A4 CPU( Rumored to be in the Iphone) > snapdragon.
/Just saying
*Still a Android fan
Sorry for the bumb but any word on this running on the ipod touch 3g and can you go on the market