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In the days before the smartphone operating system wars we rarely worried about what operating system our phone used. If you bothered to find out, then most of us would be using Symbian and the remainder would be using Windows. Dialaphone has all the info on what makes the best mobile phone, but in the meantime find out more on these operating systems.
Since Windows powered phones did what Windows was so good at doing, and by that we mean the blue screen of death, early Windows powered phones would regularly crash. Meanwhile, we poor Windows phone users would look with envy at our Symbian powered counterparts and vow to take more regard of the operating system next time.
Of course all Blackberry users with their RIM powered phones would look down on the rest of us with contempt; but back then Blackberry users were all Yuppies so we didn’t take much notice of them anyway.
Then along came Apple with the iPhone and its iOS operating system, followed by Google with Android and the game completely changed.
The result is that Symbian is just about in the final throws of dying, Microsoft is promising to get back into the market as a serious contender with a brand new operating system called Mango, Blackberry is issuing profit warnings, and Apple and Android powered phones are cleaning up. Perhaps that is a little unfair to Blackberry, which still has a 22% market share, but that is quickly being eroded by the other two.

At the moment Android powered phones account for a little less than 40% of the overall smartphone market and iPhones have 26%.

The moral is simple. The best mobile phones are the ones with the best operating systems, and there is nothing available to compete with Android and iOS.

There is a clear division between fans of these systems. If you appreciate the style and sophistication of iPhones, then you will not be disappointed by the iPhone 4. And if you think that Android phones have cutting edge technology, then let us point you in the direction of the Samsung Galaxy S II, one of the latest and slickest of all Android smartphones.

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