Google Android - The Future Of Mobile Operating System

There was a time when windows mobile was one of the best mobile Operating systems which had a lot of features including exchange,3rd party apps etc. Then there was symbian as well as the all time favourite blackberry. Then came apple's Iphone which made a big difference and improved the standards of a mobile OS . The Iphone OS came with loads of features , great UI , touch friendly and most of all the Best when it comes to Apps.

IPhone is popular for its apps . It boasts of loads of useful applications in the apple store . But although all this is great apple's iphone had its issues . In the beginning it had simple problems like you cannot record videos , bluetooh connectivity with other phones was bad etc etc . Also the iphone OS would obviously work only with the iphone and the iphone was pretty expensive. Not all apps are free and most of all they aren't open source!! .
Then came the mobile operating system which changed everything - Google Android . According to me this is one of the best mobile OS you can have right now . Their initial versions weren't that great but it was only a matter of time when versions like 2.1 , 2.2 ( froyo ) came with brilliant features like multiple screens, multi touch and ofcourse the Android marketplace which has LOADS of apps and a lot of them being free . It's only matter of time when android's marketplace would catch up with apple's store to become one of the best collections of mobile apps which would be free and opensource .

Android OS unlike the iphone OS can be installed on a lot of phones which is why HTC,Samsung,LG etc are all coming up with Android powered phones . The android SDK is freely available to download . If you look at the SDK carefully as a developer you will realize that developing for android is just fantastic . Everything is opensource , its very flexible and its a developer's paradise . The best part is these android powered phones are also very low cost , you can get one for around 10k INR which is pretty cheap for a smartphone unlike an iphone or a blackberry.
Nokia's maemo which is also based on LInux like android is also a very good OS , the special feature of maemo is that its a stripped down version of a debian distro which means that its something like a pocket pc . But the disadvantage of this is that the processor requirements for the phone would be high which only means that maemo compatible phones will typically be your high end phones which will be very expensive and also their apps store isn't all that great compared to android's marketplace.


Windows mobile is struggling hard to stay in the race . Their current versions are pretty old fashioned and they dont have anything new or interesting to offer . THeir WIndows mobile 7 ( new version ) seems to show some interesting stuff , only time will tell.
At this point of time i feel if you are looking for a smart phone then android is definitely something you should consider