When Android version 1.5 ships on new hardware later this year from Samsung and possibly other manufacturers, the question will be how well the open source OS and its primary backer, Google, can compete against the soon-arriving iPhone 3.0 and the WebOS on the new Palm Pre, among other smartphones.
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