this is not my Android experience

I have an Android phone (HTC Hero), my friends mostly have HTC Hero or Desire. This is not their experience. I manage a team who are responsible for the company fleet of smartphones. For various reasons many of these are HTC Android. We do not have these issues.

I set my Hero up with an old Googlemail account, been no problem. Exchange works peachy too. When I first set the Hero up it just worked.

Any issues or queries I have had with the phone have been handled by HTC (dunno why you'd expect Google to fix it?) and I rate their support very highly.

Only nag I have is the hanging download problem which hit me maybe twice in the last 14 months or so I have been using the phone.

In 2 years or maybe slightly more of exposure to Android on handsets I don't recognise this article as being anywhere near right.

I'm getting the HTC Desire HD when it releases. I am a happy happy HTC customer.