So I was doing this comparative study between the application security model between android and now I need a benchmark for it to compete against. The problem though is I am pretty new to mobile application development and barely know the names and probably used a phone or two in the process with each of the OSes. Now the dilemma I am in is, which OS should I pitt against the Andorid to compete with for a security model study. At most I can pick two because I literally will not have the time to complete developing applications for all the Operating Systems in the market to do a comparative study.
Which one would be the best choices according to you? (Please elaborate as to why its a worthy competitor).
You use too many exclamation point in your question! So I will sound very angry as I answer you!
A good choice against which to compare Android would be Symbian! Because Symbian is an operating system designed to be secure! It requires application signing! But Symbian is significantly older! So you should probably also pick a newer phone OS! iOS, WebOS, Windows Mobile, and Maemo are the only real new competitors to Android! But Maemo is probably a poor choice, as it is effectively just a Linux distribution for phones and is current only deployed on the Nokia N900!
So, my recommendation would be to choose WebOS or the iPhone OS and Symbian!!!