In a similar vein, here’s a roundup of emulators of those particular OSs – enjoy! http://hak5.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=10083

Posted at 1:24 am on Oct 10th, 2008 by Moonlit

If you call the blackberry by RIM “completely closed and proprietary” (which it is) you should say the same about the iPhone. The blackberry, through it’s j2me support, is actually more open than the iPhone (at least you don’t need to sign an NDA to develop software for it).

Posted at 4:43 am on Oct 10th, 2008 by Craig

i hope android is the one that opens up the mobile web once and for all.

Posted at 4:49 am on Oct 10th, 2008 by billy

Dude, that’s Gizmodo, can you say: ‘biased’?

1 – windows mobile
2 – android ( taking up winmo’s position as soon as it spreads and matures a bit )
3 – iphone
4 – symbian
5 – crackberry

Posted at 5:37 am on Oct 10th, 2008 by Bogy Bee

How can you possibly say one OS is better than another? Really, I am a believer in “it depends”.

Windows mobile and blackberry seem to have clunkier interfaces, and the user who just wants to browse the web and listen to music would probably be happiest.

Compare that to the needs/wants of a hacker. I know I personally would want something that doesn’t require a ton of work to customize. palmos and windows mobile are probably the most customizable, in that order. Least convoluted, anyway.

Don’t call out a bias, then show one yourself!

Posted at 7:23 am on Oct 10th, 2008 by jbot

Actually, if you get a Nokia NSeries, you can run maemo on it. The N810 has it by default and possibly the N800. If it’s not there by default, everything right down to the N770 will run it if you install it yourself. In fact, not only do they not try to stop you, they post instructions on how to do it!

Posted at 9:05 am on Oct 10th, 2008 by supernova_hq

wow, i was brilliant this morning. i meant to say that the user who just wants to browse the web and listen to music would probably be happiest _with an iPhone_. with that bit of info, my earlier post just might make a bit more sense…

Posted at 12:23 pm on Oct 10th, 2008 by jbot

Anyone know of a guide that compares them from a developer’s standpoint?

For instance, for WM my impression is that you can program with the same APIs as you would use for .Net on windows. If you could use the same code base (or almost the same codebase) for both a phone version and a desktop version of a program, that could be extremely attractive. How true is this?

Posted at 12:32 am on Oct 11th, 2008 by Evan

1. iPhone OS
2. Windows Mobile
3. RIM Blackberry OS
4. Android (Still not fully developed)
5. Symbian. (Very bad Application support.)

Posted at 2:13 am on Oct 11th, 2008 by Jash Sayani