Power consumption will be a major selling point for phones in the next few years. You can't expect to have a phone with a large colour screen, 3G, Wifi, GPS et al to run for days on end from a single charge. This could be the Achilles heel for both the iPhone and Android phones, as Linux is a server OS shoehorned into mobile devices, and low power consumption is not it's forte.
Power consumption will be a major selling point for phones in the next few years. You can't expect to have a phone with a large colour screen, 3G, Wifi, GPS et al to run for days on end from a single charge. This could be the Achilles heel for both the iPhone and Android phones, as Linux is a server OS shoehorned into mobile devices, and low power consumption is not it's forte.