Hi,
I know the following question is hard to be answered and i really dont want to start fights here, so if anyone here is a faithful believer in one of the options, step back please and make room for those who try to discuss...
As i am about to buy myself a new Cellphone i would love to hear your opinion. When i bought my last one there has only been Windows Mobile for what i need.. but nowadays there are other OSs as well. Yet the problem is that i dont find good pages that can help me decide on what to get since 90% of the pages are made by fanatics and i guess that technical freaks lik us here can do a better job.. so what would you say about the follwoing:
Windows 6.5
Windows 7
WebOS
Android
I leave Apple out since i dont plan to spend money worth several months of work for a phone ;0)
The topics i would like to ask for being discussed are: Overall impression, GPS functionality (Is there navigation software available? Geocaching? ... ), Programmability: is there a way of writing my own stuff?
Lastly: Qhat do you think about privacy and Android? Is there a problem?
As a developer, I truly believe that WebOS or Android is the way to go.
I chose Andoid because I have worked a lot with Java, and it does not hurt that it is open source.
You asked for fatihful believers to stay out. I have to admit that I am a believer, but I do not fit in the 'faithful' category. When something makes you believe, it is quite different from when you choose to believe.
If you want gps, I would say that android is the way to go... Haven't tested gps in it myself, but the video's of it looks awesome! I only got an old HTC Magic, so i can't test the new gps either :-[
I would say Android or Symbian too; both are very open and easy to develop for.
I know for Android, if you want to do dev work on the OS itself, you have to either get a dev phone ($$$) or root a regular phone, which causes you to lose certain features on the network until you revert to normal user (or at least, this is the case with my G1; I am not sure about recent stuff - I don't even play in that arena - my G1 is a phone for me, not a dev environment).
For normal application (java) development, though, a regular Android phone works fine.
I don't know anything about Symbian, other than it is linux-based and pretty open, both pluses to me!