Best Smartphone OS?

[Zoom7000]

As the question says, what is your favourite, best or what do you think, is the most promising Smartphone Operating System?

EDIT: Added more options missed out initially.

Edited August 26, 2009 by Zoom7000

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

Hard to say for many people, cause they are only familiar with one or none of them. Rare that some users on here have actually really experienced 3 or more.

[Damian]

These are missing:

- BlackBerry OS

- web OS

- Windows Mobile

[teaumaz]

I've used Symbian UIQ, PalmOS, WinMo and Symbian S60 and I have to say Symbian S60 by far outdoes the other three with PalmOS on my Palm TX coming in second place.

[Jeston Veteran]

Windows Mobile gets my vote.

[HawkMan]

You create a poll about best smartphone OS, and DON'T include windows mobile as a choice.....

[NienorGT]

My only Smartphone I used is my iPhone 3GS.

The OS is impressive, as long it is jailbroken ??

The good thing is the Appstore and cheap games and apps support, making this the easiest to use and the most featured.

It is really easy to have hundread of apps and games on this device, and to my knowledge, it is the only OS that work well with so much apps.

Unfortunately, the lack (mostly limited by Apple) of official fully working mobile Office suite and third party replacement (Browsers, media player) hurt it a lot.

Android have a good future, specially when HTC enter in it with the Zense UI. But it still lack lot of stuff like games...

Windows Mobile would be good somehow if the stability would be in the talk. Also, the UI is complettly outdated, even the 6.5 still not good with only a nice home screen but the same old gut slightly tweaked.

Symbian derivatives are awesome in stability as far I heard, but just like WinMo, it's getting old and the UI isn't built either for touch screen witch killed one of the best phone I saw: The Omnia HD.

BlackBerry OS look good, but it FAR from being a customer choice so far. It is too "business oriented" for lot of users.

Also, it's not Touchscreen, and the Storm's touch derivative look more like a failure to me, hope that the Storm 2 will reset this.

WebOS look cool, but I didn't saw a Pre so I can't tell anything but I don't like the feeling it have in videos I saw...

[Berserk87]

dont get me wrong, i love my iphone, but strickly in opinion of the OS, its one of the worst.

apple locks you out of everything, and there are no custom roms.

if you watch what goes on in the windows mobile scene you'd know what im talking about.

[NienorGT]

I know what is custom roms, but to me it's the same thing as Jailbreaking the iPhone in risks, if not worst actually.

It's unsupported, you never know if the new rom will really works better, it will mostly void your warranty if the device break before you can restore it, and you may always screw up your phone.

I almost got an HTC Diamond Touch last year and I surfed on websites like XDA for months.

None of the OSes meet my requirements anyway.

[Berserk87]

I know what is custom roms, but to me it's the same thing as Jailbreaking the iPhone in risks, if not worst actually.

It's unsupported, you never know if the new rom will really works better, it will mostly void your warranty if the device break before you can restore it, and you may always screw up your phone.

I almost got an HTC Diamond Touch last year and I surfed on websites like XDA for months.

None of the OSes meet my requirements anyway.

jailbreaking and custom roms arn't close to the type of stuff you can do.

using custom roms i go to choose ALL of the applications with my phone, along with extra settings.

the roms boosted my performance, stability, and customization.

i prefer the iphone OS in terms of user friendlyness, but they like to have full control over everything.

the point of jailbreak is to give you partial control over it.

[Glorious]

Symbian for me right now, loving the N97 after all the crap people spouted about it. :D

[NienorGT]

jailbreaking and custom roms arn't close to the type of stuff you can do.

[...]

the roms boosted my performance, stability, and customization.

Nah, I was talking about the risks, the JB and custom Roms shares the same risks.

But I know that the JB stuff will NEVER improve performance and stability lol...

I seriously hope that WinMo 7, next Android and the next Symbian rumored to break compatibility with current apps (Because of new UI I hope) will change the game.

The iPhone isn't a revolutionary phone as Apple says, specially not in hardware, but it clearly bring innovation anywhere, specially from HTC and their custom UI.

[vip]

I've used the iPhone, Winmo, BBOS, Sybian S60, Palm, and now Android. I love Android, don't think I could use anything else now ..

[powerade01]

Symbian.

There is a reason it is the OS most used by users in the smartphone area.

BTW, I believe Apple said that the iPhone is NOT a smartphone.

[Subject Delta]

Android.

In terms of UI sense, the iPhone OS trumps everything, but there are a few advanced things in it that I find lacking, such as ability to multitask.

[MR_Candyman]

Blackberry is the best IMHO

I have extensive use with Windows Mobile, Symbian, and Iphone as well.

[Ci7]

symbian OS for me

[bluezz]

I've used Winmo, Symbian, blackberry and iphone and I never thought I would say this .. but winmo for me!

Can't wait for winmo 6.5 and down the line - winmo 7!

Don't count Microsoft out of the race just yet.

[Kalint]

You create a poll about best smartphone OS, and DON'T include windows mobile as a choice.....

Have you used Windows Mobile?

[NienorGT]

Have you used Windows Mobile?

It's not because you don't like it that it make it not a choice....

[Kalint]

It's not because you don't like it that it make it not a choice....

well thanks for it, it, and it...

[temple_treefrog]

I've used Symbian UIQ, PalmOS, WinMo and Symbian S60 and I have to say Symbian S60 by far outdoes the other three with PalmOS on my Palm TX coming in second place.

I have used Symbian S60 in three Nokia phones and my experience with was not good. It felt like using a slow Linux distro for a phone.

[teaumaz]

I have used Symbian S60 in three Nokia phones and my experience with was not good. It felt like using a slow Linux distro for a phone.

Until two years ago, I would have had to agree... ever since the generation of the E51 and E66 though, there is no lag whatsoever... and it simply flies on my N86

[HawkMan]

Have you used Windows Mobile?

Daily, and out of the choices, it and to some degree Android, are the only ones I'd properly call SmartPhone OS'

[DJ Dennis]

Does Windows Mobile include the use of TouchFlo? If so, it blows everything away. 6.5 is incredibly responsive on my phone, and with TouchFlo, the looks aren't too bad either.