And free to lock up, hard restart, and software conflict to your heart's content!
Hmmm. I have an HTC Touch Pro 2, with Windows Mobile 6.1. I haven’t rebooted in a month (since I switched batteries - oh, can’t do that in your iPhone, can you?). Never even a soft restart. And I haven’t found an app that locks things up; if I don’t like it I simply uninstall it.
Bigger, higher resolution screen, uses Verizon’s CDMA network so I can actually USE the phone wherever I am, a SIM card for overseas use (non-Verizon SIM, right now it’s China Mobile), a UI that is slicker than the iPhone and totally customizable (SPB Mobile Shell), takes micro SD cards, and native tethering via WIFI - yes, it’s a hotspot as well.
Tell me again how the iPhone is superior? Because a half dozen Apple engineers were very thankful I had my HTC with me at CES, so they could make phone calls and get their flight info by connecting to my WIFI hotspot while their iPhones weren’t running...