Maybe that is the reason, the same experience everywhere. Most of them look like the same to me. I was excited when Nokia introduced the Lumia 800, seemed like a good design, bar the excessive amount of bezel. Then I saw it close and I was heavily dissappointed, the thing is a brick. Its thickness  is nearly double the thickness of some other phones.

Htc Titan 2 seems like a very good phone, pretty much everything covered. But if I were you, I would at least wait a phone with a higher pixel density. It becomes important when you get past the 4 inches.

Or wait for an i-phone 5??

This is ridiculous.

OT: Xperia Arc had poor build-quality, I am not sure if they improved it with Arc S, I think you should avoid it. If you want an android with a good camera get SII, I hate HTC and their baby batteries. You should also re-consider windows phones, the Mango update made the phone flawless, not the mention, the interface is black , my favourite color! Don't go with Nokia though.

Now for the apps, you won't find better than the apple store, but when it comes down to what is really practical, for most people, I think all stores are equal.

I dont think i care about pixel density. I look at these androids like the nexus galaxy and besides the fact they have a massive screen their icons are tiny. I blame the resolution for this...and the need to stick as many widgets as possible  on 4 out of 5 home screens

I couldnt see any pixelation on the titan up close unlss i really tried. As long as it looks good Im much more satisfied with large everything than more of everything...

You can get unlimited home screens. I think I have around 15 home screens. It makes things a tad bit slower but it shouldn't be a  issue with the Nexus. You can set the icon size too in most of the launchers.

The pixel density is important when browsing and stuff, while in UI it doesn't matter. If you are OK with it, then Titan 2 should be more than enough.

Is that really a deal breaker though? I mean I use the ipad 2 every night to catch up on news blogs atc...and it has horrible pixel density according to the 'standard' people expect is acceptable. I really don't have any issues reading the smallest letters on it...

I mean, HTC titan still has a 200 ppi density...which is much higher than the ipad 2, and higher than cool things like the 8K TV which Sharp showed at CES which everyone was drooling over.

True that other devices have higher ppi desnity, but I begin to wonder if this is one of those 'who cares'  things...like when people say a TV is better cause its half an inch thick versus 1 inch.

It is definitely not a deal breaker, but it is important if you read a lot. Sure, Iphone 4's resolution is useless, 480x800 would make barely any difference on such a tiny screen. But go under 240ppi and you start to zoom in and out a lot, which makes browsing less enjoyable.

The comparison to other devices doesn't work because Ipad has a bigger screen, zooming in is much easier, and you look at the other devices from at least a few meters away.

against all odds, i went with the LG X2 (Or, depending on where you live, the p990.. its definetly the one with 2 cores)

and its BEAUTIFUL, and it works well so far, Brothers in Arms HD runs PERFECTLY smooth, and so does minecraft.