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DoubleTwist is OK, but still pretty hokey compared to the iPhone interface. One concept though that really struck me was museek. It does a pretty decent job successfully transfering over cover art and genre information. What made it really stand out for me though was the 2D aspect of aranging albums. iTunes is 1D, in that music is arranged alphabetically in a linear fasion. museek arranges your albums in clumps by genre, in 2D fasion, or even 3D, with different zones of music. It's an impressive concept, that leapfrog's Apples interface. But the execution itself is borderline amaturish (a problem that plagues Android it seems). I'm liking it better than DoubleTwist, but it needs a lot more polish.

By the way, the Facebook app sucks. Apple's if far better.

Astro on the other hand rocks, as it lets you navigate your memory like it's a HDD, which Apple does not. I like the Kindle app a lot better too. It seems to just run better, but maybe it's the bigger screen. an iPhone screen is just pretty darned small to use as a reader. Tricorder cracks me up. Not only is it cheesy and fun, but it's also actually pretty useful! But my compass doesn't work for some reason - I don't know why, but it always points me in the wrong direction. This annoys me.

I like DoubleTwist because "it just works". It's designed to be utilitarian and it will sync with any device - something that iTunes obviously does not. As far as just a media manager on Android - all I can say is hold on, there are several good products for that in the pipeline other than what will be in Gingerbread (Android 3.0).

I haven't used the Kindle app, since I don't have any Amazon e-books, but I've read the same thing in other reviews. Also, from experience, the Audible app for Android is also more polished than the one for iPhone, and it's still technically a beta. I plan to test out the Nook software more thoroughly in the coming weeks since my wife has a Nook and a library of books I can use for it.

The compass on my Droid works fine, so I'm not sure why it wouldn't work properly on your phone. Maybe it's a 'design feature' and you're just holding it wrong? Is it a built in app or are you using the 3rd party compass application from the marketplace?

The 'new' Android marketplace will make it much easier to find the more 'polished' applications in the near future, along with many other areas of integrations. Froyo does take a nice step in that direction, but Gingerbread is going to be the 'biggie' in terms of polish and integrations.

Once I have my hands on the new Samsung, I will decide if I'm going to pull the trigger on ordering a Droid X or hold off a tad longer for the Galaxy line.