I use an Android as my primary phone now after a year with iPhone 4, so I'm well aware of the capabilities. I refrained from comparing it with anything else fo

I use an Android as my primary phone now after a year with iPhone 4, so I'm well aware of the capabilities. I refrained from comparing it with anything else for 2 reasons: 1. The iPhone was the first out the block, so I didn't want to compare it with a product that came after. and 2. I want to save the comparisons for a later post. I left notifications out again for the same reason - I think they deserve a whole post of their own. WRT "slide to unlock" I think there are many easily obvious metaphors/ visual cues that could be used to make the action apparent. For (stupid) example, they could have used something like a translucent zipper. Or a real lock. Almost any metaphor would have worked. Using text to prompt the user to perform simple, should-be-dead-simple actions is just lazy design. This is the same thing that was annoying about the "click to begin" bouncing arrow in Win95. You make a grey button on a grey taskbar, place it in a corner, so you need to add an animated arrow+text pointing to it because users don't know where to click.