Who has the be best touch screen OS out now?

pros/cons?

11/9/2011 10:15:43 AM

Commence flame war

11/9/2011 10:27:27 AM

webOS

11/9/2011 11:08:21 AM

^2nded

11/9/2011 11:13:52 AM

MeeGo

11/9/2011 11:15:30 AM

If only Palm/HP knew wtf they were doing with it. The UI is definitely the best hands-down.

11/9/2011 11:15:44 AM

windows phone 7 is pretty awesome for being an efficient UI. android is the worst. ios is virtually identical to android, though I haven't played with siri. webos and blackberry are both great for communication but both are paired to dogshit devices with shitty app ecosystems

11/9/2011 11:18:53 AM

highly depends on what web products you use...if you're a hardcore Google products user, you'll want Android.

if you have Apple computers around the house and want something that ties in with them, you'll want iPhone. Or if you aren't big into customizing your phone and stuff you'll want iPhone.

i wouldn't venture out of those 2 because of lack of apps personally but if you don't use many web services, the latest windows phone is pretty decent.

blackberry has never been an option for me - they're all so bland. but if you're the kind of person that wants more than 1d battery life, go blackberry.

11/9/2011 11:23:40 AM

It's a shame that webOS and Windows Phone don't have better development backing... they are the two best, most innovative UI's out there, but webOS is no longer and Windows Phone just can't compete on the application base. Too late in the game.

iPhone and Android are both 'eh' they are both mainstream have huge application bases and personally out of the two, Android (ICS) is by far the better OS. The iOS UI is just more and more dated. Siri can be useful, but it's just voice-recognition, not a UI.

[Edited on November 9, 2011 at 11:52 AM. Reason : .]

11/9/2011 11:52:02 AM

^Since Mango just came out and is the first release of WinPhone7 to support a lot of the API stuff developers have been demanding, I think it's a bit early to say it's too late. WP is revving fast and will take a couple of years to catch up, but so far things are going in the right direction. Just maybe not as fast as anyone would like.

11/9/2011 3:27:26 PM

define "best"

11/9/2011 3:35:58 PM

11/9/2011 3:38:05 PM

lot of irony in that pic now.

11/9/2011 3:38:38 PM

I'll probably switch to Windows Phone around WP8 or WP9, it has a lot of promise but it's not there yet

WebOS was nice but just ran too slow on phones, from what I heard. Maybe someone will resurrect it.

Android has been functionality over interface since the beginning, but ICS looks like it's doing a lot to address that.

lol iOS

[Edited on November 9, 2011 at 3:44 PM. Reason : right now though Android is where it's at]

11/9/2011 3:43:52 PM

flash is still supported, just no future versions for mobile.

11/9/2011 3:44:16 PM

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"flash is still supported, just no future versions for mobile."

ie. possible compatibility issues with future android versions which would mean no updates = no flash

11/9/2011 3:47:03 PM

Using iOS on my iPad after switching to WP7 is so annoying.

If WP7 didn't exist, I'd probably be buying a Pre3 off eBay, despite the fact that I'm not enamored with the form factor at all.

11/9/2011 5:11:11 PM

webOS is by far the best mobile OS that i've used

iOS is next for ease of use

Android fairly far back on the phone front but maybe 4.0 will help - it's too common to have to remove the battery in my opinion - on the tablet front Android is pathetic

i don't have a ton of experience with WP7 because it's very lacking on the mobile device management front

11/9/2011 5:18:46 PM

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" it's too common to have to remove the battery in my opinion"

i think that's more hardware related than Android OS... i've never had to battery pull because of OS lockup and i've had 2 android phones over 2 years.

11/9/2011 5:53:39 PM

doesn't happen to everyone - but in the city i see people with android phones pulling the battery out and popping it back in at least once a week it seems

11/9/2011 5:59:46 PM

only time i've had to pull the battery on my tbolt is when i've fucked up something while flashing with a third party OS

11/10/2011 10:37:00 AM

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"doesn't happen to everyone - but in the city i see people with android phones pulling the battery out and popping it back in at least once a week it seems"

Probably because most people don't know wtf they're doing. This isn't a damn blackberry.

11/10/2011 10:50:15 AM

I had to pull the battery in my blackberry constantly.

11/10/2011 11:29:04 AM

my (non touch screen) black berry

makes a better projectile then it does smartphone but my company won't allow my iphone exchange access.

[Edited on November 10, 2011 at 12:27 PM. Reason : .]

11/10/2011 12:27:09 PM

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"only time i've had to pull the battery on my tbolt is when i've fucked up something while flashing with a third party OS"

to be fair, the thunderbolt has a "restart" option right after you press the lock key.

If it diddnt you would be pulling the battery out just like every other android user.

11/16/2011 9:11:24 AM

android suffers like winmo and win98 did. no QC to use the software on your hardware. lots of questionable hardware/drivers as well as non-existent app QC

11/16/2011 9:21:20 AM

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"doesn't happen to everyone - but in the city i see people with android phones pulling the battery out and popping it back in at least once a week it seems "

What is this bullshit

11/16/2011 9:35:07 AM

Up until yesterday I had two phones...which was nice because I could always use the opposite one when one was frozen/rebooting.

Also wtf to the Nav app requiring a reboot so much?

11/16/2011 9:37:57 AM

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"IN THE CITY"

11/16/2011 10:04:48 AM

fuck wrong thread

[Edited on November 16, 2011 at 10:10 AM. Reason : .]

11/16/2011 10:10:25 AM

Eastern BBQ is better than Western BBQ

11/16/2011 8:41:34 PM

wrong thread again? lol

11/16/2011 9:09:16 PM

Blackberry OS is the best! It's the only true "smart"phone OS out there. Everything else is uncivilized.

11/17/2011 9:10:42 AM

Windows 8 ?

11/17/2011 4:32:20 PM