Windows or android phone?

[Aakash Deshmukh]

When you purchase an Android device you get a lot of technology for your investment. You're treated to full integration with all of your Google services, including the superb Google Maps, which offers free turn-by-turn navigation that blows nearly every other contender out of the water thanks to its innate usability and speed. You're also able to make use of the thousands of apps available in the Android Market, which strive to make your smartphone even smarter.

Other fine features include Wi-Fi hotspot tethering, full Flash browsing and openness, allowing more advanced users to tailor the operating system to suit their own needs, and make changes to the core components of the software.

Conversely, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 presents an altogether more closed environment, but this needn't be seen as a bad thing. With WP7 you're treated to a visually rewarding, powerful mobile operating system, which aims to keep you in touch without taking up too much of your valuable time in the process.

Windows Phone 7 offers a similar approach to Android in terms of UI, but there are key differences, the most gratifying of which is the extremely finger friendly, tile-based homescreen, which is fully customisable. WP7 also boasts great native support for social networks and support for Microsoft Office integration, allowing you to handle documents and work more easily while you're on the move. I will prefer android due to its full accesseblity and freedom of use