Android vs Windows Phone 7 for a work-oriented phone?

[adelialaurent]

I'm currently stuck on Windows Mobile 6.5, which does suck in terms of "cool factor" but is a very solid business phone OS.

Now I'm due for an upgrade, and I'm trying to decide between Windows Phone 7 and Android. Both of them seem to have more eye candy and user friendliness, and poorer Outlook integration/business features, but I guess it's time to move on and get used to it.

Which of the two will you recommend? Again, this is going to be primarily a _work_ phone, which has to have good contact management with enterprise address book support, syncable calendar, tasklist, etc. I've all but ruled out BlackBerry (amazing business features but I hate the UI) and iPhone (I don't want to be locked to iTunes, in a Windows-only workplace, plus I have an iPod touch), but I'll consider them if you provide a good enough reason.

Thanks

 

[chanchan05]

For Android, you'll be needing a third party to sync with Outlook through cloud, or you can use USB and use whatever software the phone is compatible with. For example, Samsung has Kies and Sony has PC Companion. A third party alternative is MyPhoneExplorer, but all of them does the same thing: sync your phone to Outlook via USB. The manufacturer official software has the double duty of downloading OS updates as well if you don't want to do it directly on the phone.

With Windows, the phone natively syncs to Outlook.com, which also natively syncs with Outlook on PC, so your only choice is cloud. Unsure if anyone made a PC Suite for it that's up to date.

 

[Unforgiven]

I moved this to the device & carrier comparison forum.