Android vs. Symbian open source or Android vs. iPhone 3G

We posted an article yesterday about the new Open Source Symbian OS and how it will be a direct competitor to the Open Handset Alliance and Google’s Android, that news is kind of obvious but what’s not clear is where the iPhone and their 3G version stands in all this.

We keep seeing news of Android vs. iPhone 3G and how Apple have a very good position thanks to being in control of the whole process, they control the user interface, the operating system, the chipsets and how the case looks. Yes Android is going to be an open source OS and it will get the power of many developers, but with their efforts to get the biggest cell phone carriers finding hardship, it looks a difficult road ahead.

There are pros and cons to not being in control of the phones creation, the iPhone may be in Apple’s total control but then its just one product. At first we all thought Google Android was going to be a Google Phone, but it turned out that it will be the Android OS on many phones, and the OS is more important than ever in expanding a phones features and applications.

Android may have a lot to deal with against the iPhone but this is nothing compared to the latest news about the Open Source Symbian OS and the newly formed Symbian Foundation. If we were talking about the biggest players in the future and in the cell phone business, we got to be looking at just two names and it does not include Apple.

It’s my view that the future phone market share will be Android vs. Symbian and more importantly the people behind those systems that are the Open Handset Alliance and the Symbian Foundation.

Open Source is great for all the consumers, but whom do you see as the biggest players in the business? Nokia has the most handsets in people’s hands. Is there only room for one like with HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray, will it be Symbian Foundation vs. Open Handset Alliance?