Best Smartphone OS?


What is the Best Smartphone Operating System?  

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  1. 1. What is the Best Smartphone Operating System?

    • iPhone OS
      35
    • Android
      33
    • Symbian
      10
    • Other (Please Specify)
      12
    • BlackBerry OS
      7
    • webOS
      8
    • Windows Mobile
      16


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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 Also, the UI is complettly outdated, even the 6.5 still not good with only a nice home screen but the same old gut slightly tweaked.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...

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.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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

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