The future smart phone operating system market will look a whole lot like the Instant Messenger market. There will be several big players but we would all be better off if there was 1 dominant player and someone constantly chasing them to keep them on their toes.

One thing is for sure, MS and Goog will stay in the fight even if they never profit a dollar from it.

I have both an Iphone and a Motorold Droid and from using them both in two different countries for the last year , I have to say that I am leaning towards the Android based phone now. I had two different blackberry's before and they're not even in the same league as these two phones.

I love people that have the argument about how Blackberry's are business phones and they need them for email , Maybe like 5 years ago you needed a Blackberry to get your emails but there isn't a site or function that an Iphone or Droid can't do now (and most of the time better)

The Iphones interface is simple and easy to use but it's alot slower compared to the Droid I find,For the argument that Apple has so many million apps , it does have way more apps then Droid but all the real apps that you will need are available on the Droid too, 99% of the apps out there are stupid (strobe light , dog whistles , dumb games) anyways.

Same here. Most of my email checking has been on my Droid over the last 2 months.

I love my android phone :thumbsup

Beat everyone to market? :1orglaugh Smart phones are nothing new. I had a Blackberry circa 2002. I know others who had Palm powered Sprint phones prior to that.

The "new smartphone market"? And this is defined by what? I'm assuming the game changing iPhone?

I'm not really getting your argument. Seems like you're admitting the iPhone defined the market but in the very next breath you're saying that they beat everyone to the market they created? Your argument is circular.

Just admit it...you hate the iPhone?

Android all the way. I design android themes. A lot more control on the looks, opposed to the iPhones simplistic OS.

I am happy to see so many people talking up their Android phones. I am a long time Sprint user and was just about to purchase a new smart phone. I looked at the Samsung Moment, an Android OS phone to use with the Sprint service that I am happy with and I the liked interface and snappiness of it, and it's slide out keyboard for texting, the web browser and the apps.

Also, I am a huge mac fanboy, but I effing love anything with Droid on it.

android wins!

I have the G1 and I don't really like it that much- the camera really sucks. It is the most expensive phone I have ever had and the worst camera I have ever had. The internet seems just as fast as it does on the IPhone but the apps aren't as good. There is a newer google phone (i can't remember if its the G2 or G3) and it looks slightly better than the G1... I'm still not sure what I should do. My contract is up soon and I don't know if I should stick with an android phone or not. I heard the Motorola Click phone is really good- and I believe it is still an android phone.

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You shouldn't really judge the Android platform based just on the G1 phone as that is the very first of the Android phones. There are several Android phones from more than one manufacturer now. I tried out the Samsung Moment which works with Sprint and I was impressed.

ibm was not as big a factor as you would think in the windows 3.11 debate vs apple gui
the arguement was exactly the same as you are seeing consumers don't care about development platform. But ultimately people bought the machine because of the applications they could run not because of how nice the os was.



apple had market dominance for gui based machines, they were years ahead and they still lost.
hell apple kept saying that windows 95 was mac 85

cellphones have a much shorter life expectancy then pc. In fact new carriers are allow you to upgrade your phone each year on the same plan. so holding that base is going to be an issue, if the apps start to flow.

the api on android is very impressive, full support for open standards like soap make it work seamlessly and support for api access to the underlying os allows you to build powerful applications (i built a micro torrent client that runs cleanly on android phone)

This is what I have and it's a good phone. It just NEEDS the Android 2.1 update and it will be a great phone.