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| I feel like I am wading through rampant Android fanboyism here. These discussions of how quickly the mobile OS market will consolidate and who the winners will be is great fun and all, but lets talk about right now. Obviously, it goes without saying that Android is the mobile OS of the future and is the harbinger of the singularity. Until this future arrives and I have an Android device implanted in my brain (that would be a long-term commitment), I want a new mobile phone to use in the present.
Seeing as we are talking about buying a mobile phone as opposed to investing in Android stock, can someone give us a rundown of the current features/benefits of Android that make it so superior to competing OSs (UIQ, WebOS, Symbian, Maemo, WM6, RIM etc...)? | |
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All specs and comparisons are widely available on Google... as are articles comparing Android to other stuff. Plenty of info for you to browse through. No-one said it was superior to everything else (iPhone takes some beating, and Android is still quite raw in places), but the point is that untold millions are being ploughed into Android as the futures most ubiquitous format . It has Google ploughing their resources into it in a serious way, and several of the biggest mobile manufacturers are now basing entire product lines on it, with others progressing that way. It's not about it being the best, it's about the invitable market share it will enjoy in a relatively short space of time.
Garter have predicted that by 2012 it will be the words 2nd most popular phone OS, pushing iPhone down to 3rd and WMO down to 6th.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...ner_reiterates
That is crazy share in such a short time. Eventually it will start to take over Symbian. That's not fanboyism (I have never owned an android device), that's just an objective view based on overwhelming evidence.
EDIT - But yes i'll shut up and we can leave that for another time. Check out the many videos also on the new features of Android 2.0, there's some nice ones.
