Over at GigaOM, Android’s ‘web-like application’ functionality is covered. I believe there are reasons that a web browser in the phone isn’t the answer to everything-apps for a while (read: Flash on the iPhone), so this wonderful new era of competing phone UIs and functionality is great and long overdue. If one is unsatisfied with a web app in phone-based browser, it’s good that Android (and, I’m presuming, the soon-to-be-revealed-in-detail iPhone SDK) will allow lively parallel apps that work much better in the phone operating stack. And all-you-can-eat phone plans are becoming the norm (the iPhone plan already has unlimited data).
Good times, good times.