An excellent article, Rocco.
I agree that it's too soon to write off Android. To me, Android is much closer to Windows Mobile than the iPhone's OSX, so I'm expecting a similar evolution of the operating system to take place. If you recall the first Pocket PC Phone Edition was pretty ragtag and barely functioned at all. Windows Mobile isn't really that much further ahead than it was oh so long ago. For Bob's sake, my HTC Fuze only sounds the ringer about 30% of the time when I get a call!
So the fact that there are still a few features missing from Android means nothing. I imagine it at least rings when it's supposed to...
That said, I still prefer WM to any other mobile OS out there. When Android becomes fully fleshed-out, I expect it to give WM a serious run for it's money. The iPhone will always be the iPhone and I'm not sure anyone will ever be able to compare a non-Apple handset to it without venturing into apples vs. oranges territory.