My experience with the symbian has been great, I'm used to it now, even though I was distracted with the symbian 40 series in between but that distraction lasted for couple of days only after you figure out that its just for show off. The biggest advantage of symbian is multi-tasking and 3rd party app, and that's enough to sell it however there are some trade off when it comes to stability, but as they say, YOU HAVE TO GIVE SOMETHING INORDER TO GET SOME. If you take it to the extreme symbian has some behaviour to become unstable, but that's just sometimes. You can say that it lags a bit if put on some heavy themes or full packed memory card.
Maemo on the other hand is the new guy in town and everybody hates the new guy BUT Maemo 5 is something to love about. My personal experience with maemo 5 on N900 was exquisite. The OS might be new but its beautiful, its shiny, its fast, its stable, its compatible, its eye catching, its animated, its sleek, its professional and it has potential to be the next big thing!
It has multi-tasking with some unique interface and the best thing what I loved about it is I found it pretty stable. Usually multi-tasking can result in crash or unstability but Maemo 5 is brilliant. It might be new so 3rd party app can be an issue for some, but for a limited time, creators are making apps as I wrote.
Advantages of Maemo over Symbian.
- A much better sleek User Interface.
- Better stability.
- No Lag Effect.
- Smooth Performance.
- It shows Professionalism.
Future prospect.
While Maemo is new and has a great start, with already some advantages over Symbian, I personally feel that Maemo 5 has some great potential. On the other end symbian is releasing symbian 3, but what they're offering is already been offered by Maemo 5 so head start has been taken by the Linux based Maemo. Symbian 3 has some changed UI and a bit new features with no support of the current 3rd party apps, symbian 3 has to cover a lot of market. There has been a confusion that whether current symbian users will get an update for symbian 3 or not and if not, Then they have to buy a new device with symbian 3 and MY RECOMMENDATION is to buy device which has MAEMO 5.
My next device is definitely going to be a Maemo 5.
