Best Smartphone OS?


What is the Best Smartphone Operating System?  

121 members have voted

  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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I've had an iphone and now I'm using a hero (android) and I'd have to say that Android wins... but the iphone wins for total ease of use.

I've had a little play with winMo phones and symbian and I didn't really like those, I thought Symbian was worse then winMo tbh.

i'm using a BlackBerry device but voted iPhone OS for best smartphone OS followed by BlackBerry OS.

The iPhone hardware is still too limited.

i've used:

BlackBerry OS (2 devices) - rating: 8/10

iPhone (2 devices) - rating: 9/10

Symbian (3 devices) - rating: 7/10

Windows Mobile (11 devices) - rating: 5/10

Palm OS (1 device) - rating: 3/10

Edited by Damian.
i cant believe the iphone is the highest rated.

i have an iphone and while its the most user friendly OS of all the phones (as far as i can tell) its far from the best.

Since winmo wasn't there, you can proibably move all the "other"'s into winmo :p

I love Blackberry OS, it is very powerful, and very easy to customize everything about it. Blackberry OS also is extremely good at multitasking (which I find important), and it also presents everything in a nice, organized fashion.

I can not stand iPhone OS though, it lacks all but a very basic form of multitasking, and the only way you can customize it is by jailbreaking it. Furthermore, I do not like how Apple uses the App Store to censor otherwise good and creative applications from being available.

iPhone OS (App Store, better multimedia/gaming, better web browsing, user friendly, etc.)

However, I also like the BlackBerry and would pick that over the iPhone for business use. Android and WebOS also appear promising and I wouldn't mind using either. S60, I haven't used one of their phones so I cannot make an opinion of it. And as for Windows Mobile, it sucks in comparison to the others. Mind you, HTC did a good job of improving WinMo's UI on its phones via TouchFlo 3D and it is highly customizable (as opposed to the iPhone).

I love Sony Ericsson's OS. You can just edit all the base files from your PC etc, just love it. Second would be Symbian (on SE's or S60 in SE's implementation).

What? Fanboy you said? You might be right..

  • 3 weeks later...

i think the new WebOS is unqiue and great to use, but the hardware is a complete let down.

Android is still isnt mature enough..........but getting there!

the iphone has a good all round os. Best of all the basics are well covered

windows mobile is a rotten corpse! it was great, but never really got updated

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