Admittedly, just about _all_ the mobile phone smartphone OSes behave like they're in beta.
* Google - Everything is beta, everything. Gmail is still in beta. Docs and Spreadsheets is still in beta. Can android really be taken seriously as anything but a beta? * Apple - Even engadget agreed that the iPhone 3G launch has been completely un-apple. Mobile me: beta. Firmware 2: beta. 3G handset reliability: beta. Application store: beta. * WinMo - 6.1 is great, but even with very polished and streamlined kitchens, my HTC Mogul still crashes with nothing installed but skyfire, SPB backup, and two IMAP boxes. Threaded SMS is much better and speed is faster, but locking up in my pocket is no more acceptable than the iPhone dropping calls.
That leaves Symbian, by far the largest smartphone OS in the world (by number of phones).
Boring? Sure. Touch screen? Not yet. Cumbersome? A little.
But it is by far the most capable and mature phone OS out there. It powers workhorses like the N95 (now N85, N96..), E90, and so on. Thousands of Symbian-specific applications exist, such as Internet Radio which you can use to stream live radio streams from around the world to your car stereo, a GPS-enabled "Sports tracker" application that keeps data of where you are going, how fast, with real-time and post mortem plots importable into Google Earth, accelerometer-based games galore...
I have no doubt that Android will mature. It *will* be the first OS to give Symbian some competition... (Blackberry might come close, but it is very North American centric...)
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So what's Ballmer's excuse for WinMo functioning like it's still in beta?
Here Here!!1 I dont think Window's Mobile is the Future, as it Stands, its the PAST. We need to Look Forward.
Admittedly, just about _all_ the mobile phone smartphone OSes behave like they're in beta.
* Google - Everything is beta, everything. Gmail is still in beta. Docs and Spreadsheets is still in beta. Can android really be taken seriously as anything but a beta?
* Apple - Even engadget agreed that the iPhone 3G launch has been completely un-apple. Mobile me: beta. Firmware 2: beta. 3G handset reliability: beta. Application store: beta.
* WinMo - 6.1 is great, but even with very polished and streamlined kitchens, my HTC Mogul still crashes with nothing installed but skyfire, SPB backup, and two IMAP boxes. Threaded SMS is much better and speed is faster, but locking up in my pocket is no more acceptable than the iPhone dropping calls.
That leaves Symbian, by far the largest smartphone OS in the world (by number of phones).
Boring? Sure. Touch screen? Not yet. Cumbersome? A little.
But it is by far the most capable and mature phone OS out there. It powers workhorses like the N95 (now N85, N96..), E90, and so on. Thousands of Symbian-specific applications exist, such as Internet Radio which you can use to stream live radio streams from around the world to your car stereo, a GPS-enabled "Sports tracker" application that keeps data of where you are going, how fast, with real-time and post mortem plots importable into Google Earth, accelerometer-based games galore...
I have no doubt that Android will mature. It *will* be the first OS to give Symbian some competition... (Blackberry might come close, but it is very North American centric...)