Mobile OS Comparision 2011
Mobile OS Comparison 2011, improved from last year and gets updated with the newest news. Have fun!
As you might or might not already know there are in fact six major mobile OS’s worth considering at the moment these are Apple’s iPhone OS, Google’s Android, and Palm’s Web OS, WinPhone 7, Blackberry OS, Symbian This is here to compare them all in an awesome Mobile OS comparison of 2011.
| Features | WinPhone 7 | iPhone OS 4 | Web OS | Android | Symbian | Blackberry OS |
| Multitasking | 3.0 (coming soon) full | 4.0 still not full multitasking | 5.0 (cards are awesome awesome) | 4.0 | 5 | 4 |
| Customization | 1.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 2.5 |
| Handsets available or too our current Knowledge | 5.0 (minimum specs look killer) | 4.0 (iPhone 4 is good but not great) | 3.0 (palm pre 2 and pre plus starting to look tired) | 5.0 (HTC Evo 3D, Nexus S and Galaxy SII all are 5.0) | 2.0 (sorry symbian but your OS is severly lacking good feature phone but the N8 is starting to look good) | 3.5 (some handsets better than others but specs are down) |
| Apps | 2.0 (apps are good but few and far between) | 5.0 ( this is where the iphone excels with 300,000 apps) | 3.0 ( Web Os store looks promising but not great) | 4.5 ( not quite as good as iphone’s but catching up quickly 200,000 apps) | 2.0 (awkward device dependant app stores) | 3.5 ( apps are there but cost too much, but still lacking in numbers) |
| Business | 5.0 | 4.0 | 4 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 |
| Games on app stores | 4.0 xbox live is great but still lacking. | 5.0 great gaming with game center being added | 3.0 great games but few of them | 4.5 great games but need more big game developers | 2.5 never been a gaming platform | 2.5 not made for gaming but there are a few decent games out there |
| UI | 4.0 | 3.0 (starting to look tired) | 4.5 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 2.5 |
| Layout of OS and usefulness | 5.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 3.5 | 3.0 |
| Total score | 29/40 | 32/40 | 31.5/40 | 37/40 | 25.5/40 | 26.5/40 |
From our charts you can deduct an order of OS
- Android
- iPhone OS 4
- Web OS
- WinMo7
- Blackberry OS
- Symbian
But then of course some features have more weight than others to some people. For example I dont care about business so I could wipe that out of the equation but then for some people this is there top priority for whom I would say that Blackberry in WinPhone 7 is best at.
Will
