I think I may have accidentally unearthed a whole new untapped population online: the Android Army.

Reader feedback about my review of Google's new cellphone yesterday was unusually voluminous and, in some sectors, vitriolic. Where I had written, "The Nexus One is an excellent app phone, fast and powerful but marred by some glitches," some readers seemed to read, "You are a pathetic loser, your religion is bogus and your mother wears Army boots."

A few of their beefs:

* "It's ridiculous that you dinged the N1 for not having a physical ringer switch. Millions of phones have no ringer switches and they manage just fine."

* "You are an idiot. You write that only 190 MB is available for holding apps, but I hear that Google is planning to fix that in software next year."

* "You write that the Nexus One doesn't have a multi-touch screen, but it does; Google just didn't enable it. You should be fired for your incompetence."