[ale] OT: cell phone OSes

[Chris Fowler]

The "killer app" for the iPhone is the app store.  That is what makes
the iPhone great.

I don't really care about the OS on my phone.  What I want are
capabilities.  I bought a Treo with Windows Mobile so I could run
software.   Finding software was a real pain.  First there was this
issue of screen size.  The Treo was smaller than a Windows PDA.  Some
apps had a problem with this.  Second, finding these apps took hours of
searching on the Internet.  I gave up and sold the phone to a friend.
I've not replaced it but when/if I do I will be buying an iPhone.

I know that any app I get from the app store will be compatible!


On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 19:02 -0400, Jim Philips wrote:
> I'm about to get a new phone. Does anybody have any thoughts about the pros 
> and cons of the different OSes?
> 
> Symbian--on Nokia
> Android--on the G1
> Blackberry OS--on the Curve
> Windows Mobile--on HTC phones
> Apple whatever they call their phone OS)--on iPhone
> 
> I'm inclined toward Android, because it's Linux-based and open source. But 
> this is a more complicated question than just open source or not. 
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