There is some Manual intervention, but???
I have a Nexus S and I love it so far. I would only expect the experience to be better on a Tablet.
I would not be complaining about poor battery life of my Laptop on Microsoft. This would be for the very reason that my Laptop is from a different vendor. While the same OS is running with a better battery life on my Friend's other vendor machine.
There is also the other factor which is the application developer(s)/owner(s). They should put more perspective in getting their application to go to sleep when there is no need for it to run. For ex, I have an application which needs internet connectivity to function completely. The application developer should implement the functionality for the application to go to sleep/kill itself when there is no internet connectivity. At least that is my thought.
I am making use of a Task Killer App and a Power Widget.
The task killer automatically stops idle applications on the background. I am really not bothered at this stage to look into how it is doing that thing.
The Power Widget makes it very easy to enable/disable any antenna without struggling to go into the settings to do the same.
The Users should take some responsibility in managing the devices.
I totally accept that Android needs improvement to be more user friendly and to do certain things in a better way. But this is the case of every other OS.
I personally believe that Android is in a pretty good state now and the experience will only get better.
