[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Flash Lite/Flash: Android 2.1 and below can only use Flash Lite. Over half of Android devices are still running 2.1 and below. Fragmentation kills this advantage for Android, I must say.

Bing Navigation: Google Navigation has no Voice-Guided Directions on Windows Mobile. It cannot bypass Tolls, and it cannot give you directions based on traffic levels. Using Google Maps over Bing on a Windows Mobile phone (or most non-Android devices) is a waste of time. Google Maps is only umbiquitous on Android. Bing is better on Windows Mobile, Ovi is better on Nokia, etc. (Actually, Nokia is better than Bing and Google, cause it has full offline maps).

SPB Mobile Shell is only Available to Android OEMs. It is not available to consumers. It's available to Windows Mobile and Symbian users for purchase, however. It's not hard to go to the website or their facebook page and see. Actually, Fujitsu is about to release an Android phone with a UI layer built by SPB.

Media Synching: Windows Media player Synchs with Android as if it was a dumb SD card. You mount the Storage as an SD Card and it copies the stuff over into a folder on it. WMP Synching goes a bit further with a Windows Mobile (or even Symbian) device - to the point where you can Sync Zune Pass content to the device over ActiveSync.

Windows Mobile/Symbian use ActiveSync to Sync with the computer. Android doesn't. It's no different than Syncing with a dumb USB thumb drive. That's more copying than Syncing. Also, using ActiveSync means the Computer can transcode media to a format that is playable on the device (without fiddling with settings, etc. and quite automatically). Android devices vary too much in capabilities for this to be easy (which is why most have their own first party software to do this - Kies, HTC Sync, Sony Ericksson's software, etc.).

There isn't any comparison between Syncing on a WM or even WP7 device (or Symbian, or even Blackberry and iOS) device and Android. That is a particular weak strength of Android and if it wasn't the OEMs would not invest so many resources trying to put together first party solutions...

YouTube App: I didn't say Android didn't have one, and I dind't say it wasn't better. But most people don't need a better app. They just need one. Even on non-HTC phones, I forgot to note that Google has a Windows Mobile 6.x YouTube app you can download from their mobile apps website. It's quite capable, as well. You're bordering on trolling with this type of intentional misstating of what I wrote in my post....

I like how you cut out a lot of what I put in my post, though...

I can go on about how Apps have to be coded to run off the SD card instead of just being installed there (like on Windows Mobile). I can go on about how crappy the Android mail client is compared to Outlook Mobile. I can rag on Android terrible Exchange policy support, when Windows Mobile 6.5.x supports almost every one of them. I can rag on it's terrible development environment, which still doesn't hold a candle to Visual Studio 2005 with the Windows Mobile SDKs installed on top of it. I can rag on the need to root devices to customize them. I can talk about the space-wasting widgets Android uses (which are just the opposite extreme of the space-conscious, stylus friendly controls Windows Mobile is littered with) Etc. Etc.

But that's not worth it. The fact is simple: Android does not outfeature Symbian or Windows Mobile. It never has, and it sure as hell doesn't now - ESPECIALLY in the case of Symbian, which adds features at a much higher rate than almsot any other Mobile OS (at the expense of UI overhauls and consitency) and easily outperforms Android with half the hardware/system resources (processor, RAM, etc.).

When, exactly, did you start using these smartphone operating systems?

Some of us use them for work, and actually can't afford to be lemmings when we make decisions about which devices to buy, and the software they run.

Ciao!