WAR BEGINS: IPHONE OS VS ANDROID VS WINDOWS PHONE 7

WAR BEGINS: IPHONE OS VS ANDROID VS WINDOWS PHONE 7

"This gonna be bloody."

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This is probably the largest battle of smart mobile devices in the modern era. First from the left of the line is the anticipated Windows Phone 7 (WP7), set to launch on a series of handhelds on Oct 11 in New York City. In the middle, we have the sleek Android Mobile Operating System, since launched, this Google platform has more than 70,000 apps in its depot and starting to pick up, and adopted by many companies to be deployed on their phones, such as Samsung and Sony. And finally at the far right hand corner we have the dark knight, the Apple Iphone. With more than 250,000 applications available, this is the crown of Apple Inc. 

So, here is the break down..

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Microsoft Windows Phone 7 (WP7)

PROS

1) THE HOMESCREEN

WP7 don't use the sort of graphical user interface(GUI) like most of other platform, besides it incorperates a homescreen made of animated "tiles" which shows live updates. It also boast full multitasking.

2) THE EXPERIENCE

For gadgets fans, the sleek Microsoft Project "Metro" based interface, which is clean, sleek, unique and responsive might be the selling point of WP7 devices. 

3) THE XBOX MOBILE

For Xbox fans around the globe, this is Microsoft entering the Mobile gaming world.

CONS

1)THE LANGUAGE

 At launch, WP7 will only support 5 languages, English, French Italian, German and Spanish. Hence this might be the deal breaker of Asian Users. We need to text in Chinese too! 

2)THE APPLICATION STORE

Windows Phone Marketplace will support the buying and selling of applications in 17 countries and regions: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States, which doesn't include Malaysia, this is the same case as Malaysian Xbox user don't have official technical support in Malaysia, so they have to buy in game Xbox cash from Singapore.

Google Android (2.2 Froyo)

PROS

1) THE MASTERKEY

Google Android is a very open platform. The Google's Android is also a rapidly evolving platform, one could never know what the next version could look like. There are thousands of possibilities.

CONS

1) THE APPLICATION STORE

The android app store screening process is much less strict than apples's, hence the quality and safety of using these apps can sometime be doubtful.

Apple Inc IOS 4

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PROS

1) THE SNAPPYNESS

No doubt that the responsiveness of apple touch technology is still the best.

2) THE GLOBAL "APPLElisation"

Apple inc. is entending its wing into a lot of ICT sectors, it is good to have continue support for the product you bought. 

CONS

1) THE ECOSYSTEM

The ecosystem is sheltered. One could not share files(musics, videos) across bluetooth.


2) THE I DONT TUNE
Users must use itunes to sync files


3) Flashiness
No Adobe Flash in the browser!!!!!!

VERDICTTM

The stage has been set. 3 big companies on a collusion course. But look at the bright side, when there is competition, there is innovation!

by Vincent Tey 빈센트 on Monday, October 4, 2010 at 7:21pm