Samsung I9000 Galaxy S vs Samsung I8700 Omnia 7

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Jamzzzzz

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Hello all,
I currently still have an old Samsung D500 and looking to upgrade to a smartphone finally. I've always been happy with Samsung so I'm sticking with it, except I'm torn between 2 phones right now.

Both have pretty much the same specs, except the Galaxy S runs Android and the Omnia 7 runs Windows Phone 7.

What drives me towards the Omnia is that I'm a programmer / indie game developer with experience in Windows based languages, VB, C#, (Visual) C++, Silverlight, XNA, HLSL. In other words, everything I need to make my own apps or games for Windows Mobile from day 1, which is pretty cool.
For example, I've been sitting on an pretty good idea for a game for almost 2 years now that I never put in development because the pc isn't really a suitable platform for it, but with all WP7 phones having accelerometers and pretty much the same specs it would be perfect for that. Also my guess is that since WM6 applications don't work with WP7 there probably won't be a lot of apps, so perhaps the apps I create for myself don't exist on the platform yet and maybe I can make some money with those.
Android uses Java for it's apps, something I have little experience with so making my own apps for that wouldn't be happening anytime soon.

What puts me off the Omnia is that I've heard that WP7 doesn't allow access to the MMC card, so being stuck with the 16GB internal memory. Android has a ton of apps already available, so chances are there are things I wanna do which are possible on Android because an app is available while it's not on WP7, so I'm not quite sure if the few apps on WP7 is a good or bad thing for me.
Also, WP7 is still in it's infancy and there's no telling if it'll even be succesful with Android phones and the iPhone dominating the market. If WP7 flops then my entire "making my own apps and perhaps selling them" argument flies out the window.


Anyway, those are my thoughts. If anyone has any advice or what could be dealbreakers I'd love to hear it.
 
Hmmm I like windows 7 but I wouldn't recommend it to nobody Right now it lacks way too many features like adobe flash, copy and paste and Multitasking. Since your current phone its a Samsung D500 making a jump to windows 7 seems promising and exciting. Hardware seems better on the omnia 7 people say its better built feel more like a high end phone. Now galaxy S running android has wayy more features way more apps its far more usable more easier to customize a more mature platform than windows 7. I can feel why you torn between this 2 its a hard decision, but as developing for windows 7 seem a smarter choice people would say android its the way to go since their more phones been sold and used. People are gonna murder me but every time I go to the android market it depresses me its filled with Junk Apps that makes it hard to find the good ones seems like every app gets accepted. I'm all good with open source but they should have control over how many farting apps get accepted its over shadowing the good developers I think. I still think either phone will do you good like most things you might not like it at first but then it will grow on you I think.
 
Android Market doesn't have that much fart apps, but it does have a lot of spam apps but then so does the App Store which pioneered the concept of the spam app. In fact, it seems the guys behind the spam apps are the same ones for both these platforms. Examples of spam apps are apps that are for individual radio and TV stations.

Android Market is more like App Store + Cydia. A lot of the stuff you see in the Android Market sounds more like the stuff you see in Cydia like those that modify the phone, such as widgets, UI apps, apps that alter the background and the UI themes, apps that require you to root the phone first, living wallpaper, lockscreens, and so on. A lot of the apps you see in the Android Market has no equivalent on the App Store, such as living wallpaper.

By this nature, Android Market lets you be more creative. You develop your own UI shell, for example. Develop your own lockscreen, develop your own widget systems, develop your own living wallpaper.
 
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