codergeek82 wrote: > If I already have an industry class mobile phone with Symbian why > would i need to go for Android and android application.
If you like your Symbian phone, by all means, keep it. However, people upgrade or replace phones all the time. Those people have a choice of smartphones between Symbian, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, iPhone, and now Android. > Tell me one > good reason to develop all the available applications on Android Number of applications available on Symbian, after a decade of being available in the marketplace: 9,282. (http://www.symbian.com/news/pr/2008/pr20089950.html) Number of applications submitted to the Android Developer Challenge, for a device that doesn't even exist yet, with an SDK that had only been available a few months: 1,788. (http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/04/android-developers-have-risen-to.html) Suffice it to say, Android has promising early momentum, and Symbian has a history of being painful to develop on. > and > does android is a replacement of Symbian or can it overlap on Symbian. Android is a mobile device OS. Symbian is a mobile device OS. There may be devices that could run either, but, generally speaking, any given device will likely run one or the other (or neither, if the device is for another mobile OS, like iPhone). > Is it compatible to Nokia phones Not presently. > or do new phones have to be developed > by these vendors winth androud compatibility. http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/oha_members.html This is not significantly different than the new phones being developed all the time for Symbian, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 1.1 Published! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
