While this is true, as a complete package, nothing is still half as good as the iPhone4.
And I am not even talking about the finish and polish of iOS and the iPhone4 HW (which is incomparable).
Most of the "iPhone is behind" comparisons tend to be "and the Droid XYZ is better in Feature A, and the Nexus S is better in feature B, and the Galaxy is better in Feature Z". There is, unfortunately, no single competing phone that is better just by itself.
The Nexus S is the closest, but it comes across as half baked. The owners complain about a lack of a UI like the Sense, or Blur, and features like NFC are half baked, in that, no one supports it (you can't really walk into a Walmart and pay with your Nexus S).
And I also second a lot of folks here. The idea that Apple would warn international carriers that NFC is not coming makes NO sense at all. That report would have been far more reliable if they had said that Apple warned their Japanese carriers that NFC wasn't coming, because Japan is the only place its used (and is almost a necessity, although the iPhone proved Japanese would sacrifice that for a significantly better phone otherwise). Carriers are not going to be involved in NFC at all. The only external folks who might (will?) be are card service providers like Visa and Mastercard.
