You need to try a WP7 phone. I genuinely think that it represents a 'third way' between Android and iPhone. Yes, it's locked down, but the UI works around very different principles to iOS.
It really isn't very app-centric. For instance, it has a 'People' tile that is basically your phonebook... except that each person also has a 'history' section that collates all your Facebook, Twitter and e-mail exchanges with each other. It also shows you a feed that combines your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc into one place. I don't have to load up a separate app for every action I want to take.
It's very, very well put together. Their next step (IMO) needs to be to allow more third party integration- I want GChat alongside FB and Live chat, Foursquare integration with the 'Places' tile, and so on. I'm pretty sure that it is on the way.
It really isn't very app-centric. For instance, it has a 'People' tile that is basically your phonebook... except that each person also has a 'history' section that collates all your Facebook, Twitter and e-mail exchanges with each other. It also shows you a feed that combines your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc into one place. I don't have to load up a separate app for every action I want to take.
It's very, very well put together. Their next step (IMO) needs to be to allow more third party integration- I want GChat alongside FB and Live chat, Foursquare integration with the 'Places' tile, and so on. I'm pretty sure that it is on the way.