Comments on: Android & Symbian: Robot Rumble http://phandroid.com/2009/02/24/android-symbian-robot-rumble/ Android Phone News, Rumors, Reviews, Apps, Forums & More! Mon, 04 Apr 2011 02:51:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Nik http://phandroid.com/2009/02/24/android-symbian-robot-rumble/#comment-13555 Nik Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:33:29 +0000 http://phandroid.com/?p=1590#comment-13555 Symbian have one massive problem and it is not related to it's (lack of) openness. It is completely useless. Having recently liberated myself from an N95 by moving to the G1, I can only say that the guys behind Symbian need to completely rewrite the OS or they risk being left behind. It is slow, regularly crashes and it is nigh on impossible to write code for it. Android, on the other hand, is stable, fast and imcredibly easy to work with. The sheer number of useful apps available for each platform should be an indicator of their relative strengths. Bye, bye Symbian - and don't think you can add an extra layer on top of the already cumbersome S60 v3 to give it touch screen capability. Symbian have one massive problem and it is not related to it’s (lack of) openness. It is completely useless.

Having recently liberated myself from an N95 by moving to the G1, I can only say that the guys behind Symbian need to completely rewrite the OS or they risk being left behind. It is slow, regularly crashes and it is nigh on impossible to write code for it.

Android, on the other hand, is stable, fast and imcredibly easy to work with. The sheer number of useful apps available for each platform should be an indicator of their relative strengths.

Bye, bye Symbian – and don’t think you can add an extra layer on top of the already cumbersome S60 v3 to give it touch screen capability.

]]> By: Phil http://phandroid.com/2009/02/24/android-symbian-robot-rumble/#comment-13530 Phil Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:51:14 +0000 http://phandroid.com/?p=1590#comment-13530 The Symbian guy had no basis for his comments. Open source means just that....open source. If you can go in and look at the source then its open...case closed. What he may have wanted to talk about was licensing (which still isn't a problem) or the process of getting changes into the Google trunk. However if you don't like the direction Google is taking then you can take the code and roll your own version. Thats all Linux distros are. Ubuntu rolls their own Debian. Mint rolls their own Ubuntu and so on. The Symbian guy had no basis for his comments. Open source means just that….open source. If you can go in and look at the source then its open…case closed. What he may have wanted to talk about was licensing (which still isn’t a problem) or the process of getting changes into the Google trunk. However if you don’t like the direction Google is taking then you can take the code and roll your own version. Thats all Linux distros are. Ubuntu rolls their own Debian. Mint rolls their own Ubuntu and so on.

]]> By: jake http://phandroid.com/2009/02/24/android-symbian-robot-rumble/#comment-13516 jake Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:49:01 +0000 http://phandroid.com/?p=1590#comment-13516 I find it very funny how multi-billion dollar companies are just as sad and pathetic as a ten year old, "But Moooom he's lying!" I find it very funny how multi-billion dollar companies are just as sad and pathetic as a ten year old,
“But Moooom he’s lying!”

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