Symbian Belle VS Android (Updated with Belle Feature Pack 1 inputs)

[Dragoon]

About the NFC, sorry. I was incorrect. Glonass is upgraded GPS, 4G is supported by most countries today. It's even in Poland, and it's a shitty country, so I don't think we shouldn't use it if it's there just waiting for the users.

Camera. Depends on the hardware, not the OS. But true, Nokia had better cameras in few handsets. PureView is just pure awesome too. But SGS2 camera is great, SGS3 has even better one. Still lacks a lot when compared to PureView.

Speaker. There are tweaks for Android, you may make it as loud as you want. Out-of-box through, Nokia devices are louder.

Always-on clock. In Android 4.0 open Clock app. Touch space anywhere around the clock, and it will switch to more or less the same mode as Nokia is on the screen.

Multitasking. If you want OS to keep all apps running, and want them in the same state as you left them, Symbian will do that, Android will kill some apps after some time or when the RAM amount is too low. You can however tweak OS to keep all apps frozen in last state.

Remote control audio. If you have AOKP installed on your Android, then the controls are as follows: (using PowerAmp)
- Connect/disconnect headset: Play/Pause current song
- Holding Volume Up/Down: Skip song/Previous song
You may use any supported Bluetooth headset's controls too. Most are.

Battery life. He said the truth, the more you use it, the faster battery drains on all devices, doesn't matter whenever it's Android or Symbian. Obviously. Symbian is way better while the screen's off, that's true.

Build quality. Depends on device, my Galaxy S II is made perfectly. It does feel a bit more fragile than Nokia, but my previous phone wasn't even a touchscreen device :P

Size. Depends on the user's pocket sizes. Really. Someone may like smaller devices, someone may like bigger ones. I prefer bigger ones, you prefer smaller. (I want Galaxy Note! )

Multi-service micro-blogging. Ever tried Seesmic or TweetDeck? Check them out.

Sat-nav. There are navis which allow preloading maps onto your device. But Google Maps suck, that's true :P

Music quality. I can't really tell the differrence. Maybe there is, but I can't hear it. I had dog-slow 2700 Classic, which required few seconds to load next song from SD Card. Plus the sound quality was just terrible. Unnnggghhhhh... Haven't checked N8 quality, as it isn't available in our country anymore. Wasn't too popular here, too. So I really can't tell.

Profiles. Symbian wins. That's a feature which was even in S40 and I do lack it, but I usually only switched between Silent and one customized profile. I can now make my Droid silent instantly by holding Power and touching one icon, so it just depends on how you've used profiles there.

Landscape. Most launchers support landscape mode. Even Zeam does.

microSD. Look, nearly ALL Android devices have MicroSD slot. Nexus didn't, but it's only one in a hundred.

Micropool. No way to help that. If it'll get ported to Android, you'll have fun :P

Android requires more dabbling in it. If you don't want to do that, Symbian is your choice. The problem is, Symbian was already killed by Nokia. There will be no more updates, only few more devices coming.

[arjunpaliath]

Frankly speaking both the OS's have their cons and pros. But I always side towards Nokia even though my only complaint is that in the entire S^3 series there is just one autofocus phone while all the others are full focus. That is only handicap.

You guys should understand that Symbian Belle is an OS which can run on a 680mhz C6-01 and also on the 1ghz 701 without any probs, but in case of droids the lower range or the lower mid range sets are not worth buying them simply because they are lag considerably.

So symbian is dying, while android is maturing, but the one we should look out is for the Windows Phones which has a lot of potential.

[Dragoon]

That's true, Android is resource hog, but it's way more capable too, plus it's Linux-based. WP7 is pretty much a closed platform, even more than iOS is today, it will take about a year for people to actually start modding it for real. Besides that, it's a really good OS too, even better than Android.

[dimmaz]

i have nokia c7, that i love
low power consumption and many others