This is why the Apple vs Android battle benefits all. If things like the Droid/Milestone hadn't come out with pixel densities in the 250dpi area, who knows if Apple would have felt the need to do such a large leap in resolution over the 3GS. And now that Apple has leapfrogged every Android handset, display-wise, hardware companies are going to have to come up with an even higher res display on whatever the next hot Android phone is. Benefit: consumers.
For those of us in the US, I would say the most noticeably absent news was anything good about carriers. Sure, AT&T will let you upgrade early, but that's probably just because if they make you wait until your contract is up in say, October, Android will probably have a 2ghz, 10 megapixel camera, 1280x720 resolution phone for sale. Especially with their recent limits on bandwidth (no 3G video chat on AT&T, probably ever) I think that Apple's choice of exclusive US carrier is hurting them a lot more than any alleged phone-stealing tomfoolery.
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