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It is a know issue.

I would say there is still a significant difference, although not as much as there used to be. Screen resolution will probably be the first thing you notice compared on a second tier brand compared to a top shelf device.

If you already have an HDMI cable, you can get an after-market adapter for about $10. I only looked on amazon, there may even be cheaper options out there somewhere.

It is not really a Google version of Siri. It's more of a predictive contextual assistant with voice recognition. It will literally tell you what you want to know before you ask.

Thankfully, this is an issue that is less common than it used to be, but I've ran into limited internal storage issues before with an older LG. Obviously you have rooted your device, so you've already taken the first step to addressing this. What you are going to need to do is "fool" your device into thinking the SD card is internal storage.

I did a little looking around on a couple of Android forums I frequent, and almost all of the relevant posts were about issues with Visual Land tablets, including some with connectivity problems. There weren't resolutions because most of the people had no experience with the brand.

It is pretty much trial and error. There is a fairly wide range of stability among CPUs that chip manufacturers rate the same clock speed. So let's say you have two phones that are the same model, same ROM, and the same 1Ghz CPU. One of them might be perfectly stable at 1.4Ghz, while the other may crash more often than a NASCAR race at 1.2Ghz.

Quick point, RIM is no longer RIM; they changed the company name to BlackBerry. As to your point about apps, maybe it will suffer a little, but as long as there is a good selection of the apps that people want, whether exclusive to BB or multi-platform, I doubt apps will be THE deciding factor. However, that isn't to say it won't matter at all.

Google prints money from it's search engine (search engine advertising to be accurate), and has for years. There have been attempts to take a piece, such as Bing, but none that have really succeeded. Could Facebook's Graph Search actually compete with Google?

Nope. Number one, Windows isn't open source like the Android OS, so you are not going to have legions of developers combing through code to make it work with the hardware.

If you use a Chrome browser on your computer, you can add apps from the chrome web store for Google Voice, Google+, Evernote, etc. that will display an icon in the Chrome task bar.  Just now the little icon for Google Talk just indicated I have a new voice mail within one second of my phone chirping, so it gives real time notifications.

First off, I understand that, depending on the user agreement, using your device as a wireless hotspot can violate the terms of service.