I've had an android phone (HTC Desire Z) for a while now and I've started to form an opinion on it.

1. A 30€ Nokia can send DTMF Tones. A 450€ Android smart phone can't. WTF? This is entirely useless for calling up support numbers of 99% of the businesses in the country. Trying to locate a DTMF app I stumbled upon the next issue:

edit: I just called my bank. I had to put my SIM card in my old Nokia 6600i to be able to call them. Way to go Google!

2. Android Market assumes I want illegible Google Translate "translations" instead of english in app descriptions. Trying to figure out what a program does from Babelfish finnish is quite an interesting sport.

3. Finnish translation and localisation, as is always with anything related to Linux, is gibberish at worst, weak at best^[1]. I have no choice but to use my phone in english, which is sad because even the cheapest 20€ Nokia gets the translation right and this 450€ HTC doesn't.

4. Speaking of localisation, Google Calendard decided that I was in Belarus. I have no idea if that affects anything, I just found that out.

In particular to the HTC Desire Z:

5. Sound quality is excellent. Previously unintelligble speech from handsets with crap microphones (*cough*N95*cough*) is now almost understandable.

6. The scandinavian model's keyboard driver is buggy and occasionally the Ä, Ö and Å decide, independently of others, that capslock is on and the only way I've found for them to return to normal is to press the menu button twice.

7. The much-bitched-about Z-hinge is very sturdy and while it's true that it doesn't latch, it's not an issue.

The fact you need to drag in the first place is annoying as all hell though.

And this is certainly the fault of the linux kernel, rather than the fact that Nokia has its headquarters in Keilaniemi, Espoo, while Google still sits in Mountain View, CA...
Seriously though, most translations of anything computer related, into any language with less than say 50 million active speakers, tends to be utter crap at best. If it's not, then chances are it's the native language of a majority of the development team.

This page says it's 0.99 and 57.9 megs.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reckless-racing/id386234787?mt=8

[EDIT]

Video is quite impressive!

so, if Android is a slightly modified linux and there are millions of decent games for Android, why doesn't somebody create an android wrapper and the massive gulf of no decent games on linux is bridged.

Market is badly organized.

Works fine for mee, I bought the game a while back. As you said later, it downloads the rest on first run.

And you didn't get scammed, you had 15 minutes within which you could have uninstalled the app and had the purchase cancelled.

When you purchase an app, they send an email that tells you.

You didn't need to create a gmail account. You need a Google account, which can be created to point at your primary email address if you don't want gmail.

I just bought a game, and they actually inform you of the 15 minute return period before the transaction is even processed.

Also a problem with that is android runs on ARM not x86. You'd have to use an emulator. I hear google's emulator for developing android apps is really slow. But what you say about touch interface is also a huge issue. Probably 95% of all apps wouldn't run unmodified anyway, except using a mouse which wouldn't work for a lot of stuff.

But all the games are built for arm and all the good ones use the NDK, so...

My Samsung is running 2.3