There are three contenders in the race for my next phone:

- The Motorola Droid (downside: only 528mhz processor, bound to be sluggish for playing videos etc. Upside 3.7" screen and physical keyboard)
- The Acer Liquid (downside: no keyboard, but 1ghz snapdragon processor)
- The Sony Ericsson Xperia X3 (to be determined)

They're all Android phones.

I have the feeling that the X3 will be the only one to become available in Europe anytime soon. Acer has already said that the Liquid will be primarily pushed to the US market. The Droid is CDMA-only for now, so it's US-only as well. Motorola needs to restore customer-confidence again in the US before they can even think about exporting. However, I find it somewhat odd that Acer goes for a US-only phone, considering the fact that HTC seems to think the European market is much more profitable.

Peter