Weekend Open Forum: What's your preferred mobile phone platform and handset?

In the past three years we've seen a number of new smartphone operating systems burst onto the scene. From Apple's wildly successful iPhone OS, to Google's increasingly popular Android and Palm's praised yet still floundering WebOS -- to name a few. Microsoft is no stranger to the market either, but just recently the company took a radical departure from its previous business-centered strategy and unveiled what looks to be a potentially solid contender in the consumer space: the Windows Phone 7 Series.

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Still got an AT&T Tilt with Windows Mobile 6.1.
With no data plan, I'm stuck with SMS and wifi as my primary means of non-call usage.

Looked into the Tilt 2, but I'm holding out for WM7 or AT&T to stock an Android phone. Regardless, looking for an HTC as my next purchase.
..Also looking to see if I can drop AT&T and find a better provider, but there's still some time left on the contract

LOL...I have a pre-paid phone from Virgin for personal use. Work has issued me a Blackberry Curve though - which I never use unless I have to.

E-mail is my preferred method of communication.

Sony Ericsson T715, its just a phone and thats the way I like it.

My ideal phone? A T-mobile Sidekick post-product recall. I just like the way it's organized. A nice big screen to see what you're doing, a full keyboard, the screen then covers the buttons so you don't pocket-dial, and it's from T-mobile which is my current service provider. Anything else that's good about it is a side-bonus. In a way I agree with the sentiment that Adhmuz provided. As long as it's a phone, and it has that keyboard, I'm good. My current phone is a samsung brick with several buttons that are going dead.

As far as anything else goes, I've got an iPod Touch. Music, internet, basic games to play, podcasts, and youtube. I'm set after I get a sidekick.

Symbian, its open, lots of apps, ive got a sony ericsson 2960, great audio quality, camera is fine, its got wifi and thats pretty much all i need

Apple iPhone. Because it does what I need it to.

@TomSEA, I also use a prepaid Virgin phone for personal use. Since I don't talk very much on it, $20/200 minutes usually lasts me all month.

I've been considering getting an upgrade though, because I miss checking my email from my phone, so I've been eyeballing the Nexus One.

At home, I use a couple skype phones.

Have mostly used Symbian or WinMo phones during last 10-12+ years, sometimes I use my phone's for surfing (provided that at that time I am lazy enough and want to avoid turning on my PC or notebook lol), but mostly for calls & email.

Only once I tried to use Sony Ericson whatever it was (dont remember model number).

Sony Ericsson T700, a standard mobile phone and its own OS with some acoustic modifications

nokia and maemo and megoo

Still have a Nokia 5800 Xpress, but oh so bad it is. Everything taken for granted is no longer there. Piece of crap phone. I'm already in he process of canceling the purchase, so to speak. Then I'll go back to the old, nice, foldable nokia phones.
I think GPS and WAP are enough for me... with all the other things we take for granted, of course, such as SMS/MMS/Caldenar, etc.
Down with touch.

Can't say I like the new operating systems very much either. No hands-on experience, but I cannot say Chrome will be any good. It sounds just plain nonsense. And I will always like operating systems whose API are Native C++ before any other.

Nokia with symbian is far the best in my opinion.

iPhone is to locked down and restrictive ...and the hardware is to outdated for me.

My N95 does all i need and then some .. looking to buy a N900 though.

"Nokia and RIM have arguably been a bit slower to adapt to the latest trends "
Bullshit...what trends...they could and can do "all these trends" before the iPhone was even released...

Recently upgraded old SE W950 (Symbian UIQ) with HTC Tatoo. Got to say I'm in love with Android, can't imagine better phone OS for my needs.

wow no love for the droid and android. i just got one last month it's the best phone i've ever had. i can't stay off of it. it's fast, multitasks like a dream, intuitive, heck even my wife yesterday just picked it up to check her work schedule and figured it out. that's saying alot

I'm eyeballing the sony ericsson Vivaz. It comes out this year, though I'm iffy on symbian. I think I'd prefer android. This will be my first smart phone so I'll have to research and see if it's plausible to change your OS.

i have a samsung blackjack 2 with windows mobile 6.1. i'm not very happy with it, i'm looking to get the droid or iphone this summer.

Correct; my Omnia beats iphone hands down in quality of playback and many other tasks i throw at it

Sony ericsson w705 infact, this post in being sent using the phone's built in wifi. I love simple phones and I am not really a fan of small sized full qwerty keypad.