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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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...)