On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 9:16 PM, akshay khatri <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi > > The market is flooded these days with phones containing Android and Symbian > OS. > 1) Both being open source, what is the difference among the two (apart from > the brand name) ? > > 2) Which among them rates higher in performance ? (Why Android seems to > take the market away from Symbian if both are Open Source and Symbian is > much older ?) > 3) Symbian has some restrictions on its various versions, such as S40 can't > have 3rd party applications without digital signature but android doesn't > seem have any (correct me if I am wrong) same for S60 I guess, why so ? > 4) Do cost of phones vary due to these OS ? > > @Akshay: (1) S40 is not SYmbian-- S40 is nokia's proprietary closed-source; non-open platform, which only allows java midlets to run. Also, majority of Nokia's phones are S40; eg: Nokia 6300 ; Nokia 6233, many others...; and Symbian-S60 is the minority for higher end phones. Regards, NS > Akshay > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
