i want to know which is more powerfull and why

windows.....although it is normally based on the processor speed......uiq interface is faster but windows is more stable

symbian os, includes s60 devices which are quite stable. As phones in general, symbian devices are more "powerful" (I'd say stable) but as pdas, windows mobile phones are more powerful, faster etc
It depends on the use.

Well... I would say...
1) As a symbian fanatic, SYMBIAN is simply the best as OS for smartphones. There are 3 different UI in symbian: S60, UIQ and MOAP. The best part of symbian OS is - The developer community is so big and currently SYMBIAN offer more than 3000+ softwares for it's customer. It is stable (but sometimes you need to upgrade your FIRMWARE in order to accelerate your device) and supported by TOP vendors like NOKIA, Motorola, SonyEric, LG, Samsung, Siemens, Panasonic, Sendo, Lenovo and more.

2) In another hand, Windows Mobile (WinMo) is exist as an alternative OS as well as PALM and LINUX. WinMo normally known as PocketPC and use touch-screen input system (but today, there is another version of WinMo for keypad). The UI seems familiar (if you know WinXP - that's the key to master WinMo) and synchronizing with WinXP pc is a breeze. Sofwares & Games? yes. You can browse this IPMART forum and you will amaze with their sheer number. However, vendors that producing WinMo devices are not as popular as symbians'. Companies like O2, Dopod, HP-Compaq and Motorola dominates while small brands like HTC, BENQ, IMATE and Gigabyte follows them. The best thing about WinMo is - not everybody dare to 'touch' and 'use' your phone and abuse your credits. It is simply because the UI seems 'professional'. Not like Symbian S60 that look like normal phone.

Conclusion.

Symbian is still no 1 in smartphone OS race. Back by top vendors and easy to deal with (s60). When come to software installation - you can install it in various ways like bluetooth transfers (SIS / SISX transfers) OTA, infrared and PC-Sync. This is a real plus for symbian. An extensive array of warez also add a bonus.

WinMo software installation normally use PC-SYNC and need to hook it up with your PC (sometimes - you also can transfer installation files via bluetooth but the procedure is not simple). If you love MSOFFICE - the WinMo is for you.

For me? YES. I still love symbian OS as I first indulge it in 2004.

I Love Symbian OS for my mobile gadget

If you just think that HTC is a small brand then you really dont know anything.. HTC was the biggest builder of pda for other companies and now it makes its own.

Now Windows Mobile is as orthopedic as it was UIQ (wich runs over Symbian) before.
Now UIQ3 is the best.

The difference: Windows Mobile is as Windows 3.1 was and UIQ3 as Windows 95 (or if you want the difference between 98 and XP or between XP and Vista)

Symbian Rock.....

the same is an 520 mhz proccesor and symbian( 400 and if)!!!the only good of symbian phones is the camera like n95 nothing else!!!get serious

experience the power of windows 6 or 5 and then u shall understand that symbian uiq 3.0 is nothing but a piece of some sh*t commanding of linux open source......its a total mess........
look at this thread....http://www.ipmart-forum.com/showthread.php?t=177813

HTC is like the OEM manufacturer for most WinMo devices . I guess if you are a pure Windows user, WinMo will do fine with ActiveSync.

ActiveSync is not really friendly with Non-windows systems...

I would say Windows is Powerful since most software is design base on Windows

I think 400 Mhz Windows has nothing to do with an Symbian UIQ Smartphone. I used Palm, Windows, Linux and Symbian UIQ, and my choice is UIQ clearly.

But seeing opinions in this thread THE BEST YOU CAN DO IS TO TRY for ONE MONTH BOTH SYSTEMS DAILY, and after that make your choice

i have pocket pc hp rx3715 400mhz wm2003se. and i have p990i. my choise is p990i whits is 100% better than pocket. symbian forever, win sucks hehhe

its simple, we cant compare mobile phone OSes to Super power processor for PC OSes. A BIG difference relies on it, esp. Device Drivers for peripheral connectivity...

Hmm.. This is a question that comes up in every forum.. :) its a good question that often starts an quite nice discussion..

But get real guys. You cant compare Symbian and Windows Mobile. I have both of them in use UIQ 3 and Windows Mobile 6. UIQ3 have made a big impression for me (biggest impression so far made by symbian), and same goes for Windows Mobile 6 (Best Windows mobile so far, but it should be called Win Mobile 5.5 instead). They both have great features but they are so different from each other. So i would say get 1 Symbian based phone and 1 Windows Mobile based phone. There is never gonna be a perfect phone, so i you unite theese two and use them daily then you will almost have all your needs covered. :)

Hmm.. This is a question that comes up in every forum.. :) its a good question that often starts an quite nice discussion..

So i would say get 1 Symbian based phone and 1 Windows Mobile based phone. There is never gonna be a perfect phone, so i you unite theese two and use them daily then you will almost have all your needs covered. :)

Yes, that's probably the only way to know which OS suits you better. And that's exactly what I'm about to do. My first smartphone was the m600i, and I still use it and love it, but because of the firmware discontinuation and the bugs and issues, I decided not to buy another SE phone. And since I hate Nokia with passion (for no good reason, to be frank...) I have decided to buy a WM device next. I'm thinking about two strange things, which I have read about quite a lot: the HTC Advantage X7500 (huge thing, but that's a good thing for me, I think) and the Meizu M8 MiniOne (if it ever shows up in the west). Whatever I choose, it won't be for another couple of months, since I'm still satisfied with my m600i, and maybe by then a new phone gets released, which will chatch my eye. Anyway, I think I'll check WM out myself and only then judge, which platform is better for me.

And, by the way, 99% of people will say that the platform which they use is better, and out of those around 80% have never had a phone running on the other OS, so my advice is: never listen to IDIOTS saying "only Symbian!" or "WM all the way" without explaining the reasons.

Yep the m600i is a great phone, i have one too in use, just ordered the new p1 because the lack of wlan and the lack of support for the excellent program Fring :), hope it will be as great as the m600i.
The HTC 7500 is awesome i have had one in use for a couple of months and must say im very pleased with it. It isnt perfect but quite close, it looks much bigger on the pictures of it than it is in real life. So yes i can very much recommend a 7500 htc!!

Neither, the best OS on any platform is Linux

Neither, the best OS on any platform is Linux



Read the topic next time... Their asking which os that is more powerful.. SYMBIAN or WINDOWS? NOT linux..

The most powerfull OS is the one that has the most applications available for it.

I would say it all depends on the preference, and how you customize (install applications) on your pda phone or smart phone...

I was a Symbian UIQ user before. I installed lots of applications & games on my pda-phone making it very powerfull and perfectly customized for my needs.

But there came a time when I really need to install GPS map applications with asia maps, in which most of the applications I need are for Windows Mobile, and so I shifted so now I'm a WM user. At first I missed by Symbian UIQ device. But after installing all the applications I need and customizing my device, it is now as powerful as my UIQ device before.

Based on experience, I can say that Symbian is faster and better when it comes to memory management. But due to continuous development of Windows Mobile OS and the increasing memory of new pda-phone or smartphone devices, this won't be a big issue anymore...

Cheers to everyone... and more power to IPMART FORUM!!!

I've been a UIQ user since SE P800 and I own every model of SE P-series (plus M600).

But I will definitely quit UIQ if P1i's sequel continues to be poor in multilingual support.

P1i (UIQ3) can only support either 'European languages' or 'English + ONE Asian language'. Ridiculous!

I need Latin (English), Cyrillic (Russian/Ukrainian), Japanese and Korean text input, but it's not possible on P1i, while there are many such applications/solutions for WinMobile 5 or 6. That's why most of the smartphones in Asian and Arabian countries are WM.

An OS which can support only 2 writing systems should be thrown to trash can.

First, we need to define the term:

Powerful, in what sense?

As a user having only PALM and UIQ3 (Symbian) but tested some WM own by friends, I have to say:

If you need a phone with some other capabilities, use Symbian (I think UIQ is better in term of UI, but lack of SE support which is nothing short of SUCKS).

If you need mainly a PDA with some phone abilities, use WM.

The two worlds is closing to each other, but not yet 100% merging. Each has still carries the strength of where it comes from (WM as PDA, Symbian as Phone platform).

In terms of resource vs ability: symbian works better, as the codes is more optimized to run on limited environment. This was also the reason I chose PALM over Pocket PC few years back. Windows is simply too resource consuming.

Given the same processor clockrate, etc., a Symbian device will run much better and faster.

So, again, powerful in what terms? ;)

Now, from manufacturer point of view, Microsoft keeps getting and listening to major forum moderators to get them making better device. UIQ does not. So we expect to see major improvement in WM but not UIQ .. future will tell ..

Sorry, double post. But why???:ashamed:

I've been a UIQ user since SE P800 and I own every model of SE P-series (plus M600).

But I will definitely quit UIQ if P1i's sequel continues to be poor in multilingual support.

P1i (UIQ3) can only support either 'European languages' or 'English + ONE Asian language'. Ridiculous!

I need Latin (English), Cyrillic (Russian/Ukrainian), Japanese and Korean text input, but it's not possible on P1i, while there are many such applications/solutions for WinMobile 5 or 6. That's why most of the smartphones in Asian and Arabian countries are WM.

An OS which can support only 2 writing systems should be thrown to trash can.

I reject what you say. Who says it only supports 1 asian language? At least it supports all of middle eastern languages which im possitive is more than one!

Now, having taken a look at SE site i found that not only it supports MANY languages nut it also gives you the feature to install those languages on your phone and turn your phone into your own mother tongue
see:
http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/support/softwaredownloads/detailed/languagefiles/p1i?cc=gb&lc=en

I see numerous ASIAN languages including RUSSIAN that you are looking for.

I just cant believe that people just speak from their ignorance and blame others. No offence to u dude!

However, the support for other language and bundled (with operator) firmware is always lagging, never up to the Generic World.

I've been a windows smartphone user for years now. I really love the various softwares like Infosharp, sms notify to name a few. And UIQ3 has not been able to develop such softwares. I hope that they'll be developing softwares for UIQ3 platform. I'm beginning to love UIQ3 devices, especially those developed by SE. The problem with Windows powered devices, they're pretty unstable. U have to reboot once in a while to make the registry functioning at normal levels. Unlike UIQ3, there's no need to reboot. Also the build quality of some Windows powered smartphones and ppcs are not that good. Referring to HTC products. Particularly with those having joysticks for navigation. Also the built-in camera is also not that good.

SMS notification? Message Reminder comes to mind ..

I don't find UIQ lacking of what I need in terms of software. It depends though, on what you need ..

what i meant was different options for incoming text messages. like different sms alerts for contacts. If you''ve used infosharp or sms notify, you'll know what i mean. I've used windows based mobiles for quite some time now. I'm now tinkering with P1i now. As one of the posters on this thread said, u have to use both windows and other platforms to compare. I have no problems with uiq3 devices, i just hope that they'll be developing some windows based apps for uiq3.

Ah there you are ..

Given now UIQ is practically dead (see the thread on UIQ Device main forum) .. I don't foresee many new apps forthcoming ..

srry wrng thread

hi all!

-Symbian OS is an operating system that made by Symbian Software LTD. symbian os derive to difference series like: s30, s40, s60(v1, v2...), UIQ(UIQ,UIQ3) and distribute to other companies like: NOKIA, SONYERICSSON, MOTOROLA, and other.

-Windows Mobile is an operating system from Microsoft Corporation. Windows Mobile started from old version WM2002 to WM6.1(now) and distribute to other company like: HP, HTC, DELL, PALM, etc...

for me, Symbian os has limited powerful and features, Old version of SIS install file and app (Executable file) can't run in new symbian os. for example software from S60 v2(N70...) can't install and use on S60 v3(3250,N95...). difference from Symbian OS, Windows Mobile used powerful application like Microsoft.Net Compact Framework that allow old version of WM can use new softwares. and now Microsoft Windows Vista has developed to half of Mobile OS, it made WM is Ultimate useful.

and more of WM features, i can say that Microsoft Windows Mobile is most useful than Symbian OS.

but unfortunately now i used Symbian OS UIQ3 Device(SE P1i), cos my money is limited.

and more of WM features, i can say that Microsoft Windows Mobile is most useful than Symbian OS.




I agree, a realistic condition for beginning/medium user, I can say that Microsoft Windows Mobile is most useful than Symbian OS, actually since winmo 6 launched , this OS winmo is very very user friendly. Future, I don't think if winmo 7 different bwith symbian (s60 or UIQ), where winmo7 is realistic OS same as desktop OS

hi all

again more about special feature, i can say that windows mobile allow developer to develop software with most of difference language( Java mitlet, Ms eMbedded Visual Studio 3, Visual Studio.Net etc...). So WM software is most powerful than Symbian OS made from less language(Carbide.C++, Jar etc...).

wait for good idea.

thnx 4 all.

:ilove:

Well, this is a funny read..

nipsen,

Do you mind educating us ;)

Mm. I thought that any device with a platform capable of running c- code was pretty good. And that after this it would be good or bad depdending on the limitations on the platform in terms of designed limitations that may or may not make sense - as well as how comprehensive the framework would be in terms of device independency, format flexibility - and therefore deployment and maintenance cost, and so on. And then once it was deployed, it would be good or bad depending on 3rd party support (and support for various standards), and how easy it is to use on various phones, how well integrated some tools are, how easy it is to customize the phone - and perhaps because of how many devices there are on the market that can be easily developed for without much rewriting of the applications, etc.

But then it turns out that what determines whether a platform is good or bad is how fast a phone running on it can.. drain the battery while displaying animated borders around an animated button. Brilliant.

Only thing that stick me into uiq3 (p990i) is good photo camera. I want migrate into WM but I cant find pda with comparable photo. 4 Example HTC Cruise have 3Mpx but photos have lower quality then old p990i :-|

nipsen,

I guess I have asked the question earlier, powerful in what sense ;)