One of the main strong sides Android  can boast of is that it provides more competitive choices with different  handset manufacturers, which consequently leads to speeding  hardware innovation.  It is what we all were observing in the last six months, when a bunch of different devices on the base of the Android platform hit the market outpacing the Apple’s gadget in the number of features as well as in the overall speed of performance.

But the taken speed seems reasonably ineffective presenting lots of difficulties for developers to keep up with all the latest innovational techniques and to sustain the overall integrity of the platform keeping it from fragmentation. And Google management seems to realize the threat as well stating that the development pace will be slowed down to one release a year, which seems a conventional pattern for smartphone platforms.

Platform openness when dealing with hardware features is a good advantage as more different hardware manufacturers can deliver more refined hardware features than only one company is able to, taking into consideration it also has to spend its resources on software development. But when comparing the specifications for the top Android phones with that of iPhone 4, users can easily find out that all that temporary advantage has been completely lost  with the latest Apple’s introduction, which outpaces leading Android phones in interface sleekness as well as in hardware specifications, things they should excel at.

For example, the iPhone 4's cameras provide both front facing capture and HD recording, which many Android phones are lacking, iPhone 4 can also capture 30 fps video, while top Android devices are able to support only 20 fps video. Faster 802.11n WiFi networking  provided by Apple as well as  refined  6-axis motion sensing with iPhone 4's new gyroscope also prove the iPhone top position at the smartphone market. One also has to recollect multiple mic noise cancellation, which only a limited number of Android phones  enjoy. So, it’s quite clear that we can not agree to a conclusion about undisputable hardware superiority of the Android phones.