If someone were to ask you few years ago about your new cellphone it may have been something like what features does your phone have? Do you have GPS? What kind of camera? Now, it’s all about OS. That is operating system, what can it do and how well can it perform?

The heavy hitters out there at the moment are the Apple iPhone OS 2.21, the up and coming star, the Google Android OS and then the recently unveiled iPhone 3.0.

So who takes the prize? It’s hard to tell at the moment. Our friends at Lifehacker have put together a handy features chart letting us know how they stand up against each other on paper:

But what does this all mean? Usability can’t be quantified in graphs and a lot of it comes down to personal taste. However, each OS has its distinct advantages. Google Android, being an open source platform, has the opportunity to become much more widespread than the iPhone OS and be on multiple hand sets. This type of diversity will make Android diverse and sought after by many different users.

On the other hand the iPhone OS is designed specifically to the Apple iPhone, which allows developers to be much more focused on the task at hand and not dumbdown functionality to suit the hardware needs of multiple devices. This can make for much more powerful and useful applications.

So who takes the cake? (Or cupcake *sorry*) That’s for you to decide. Let us know what you’re more comfortable with? Will the new iPhone 3.0 OS change anyone’s mind?

[via Lifehacker]