DIFFERENT MOBILE OPERATING SYSTEM

CONTENTS What is mobile Mobile operating system List of mobile os Symbian Android BlackBerry OS (RIM) Windows Mobile MeeGo iOS

WHAT IS MOBILE ?

• A mobile phone is an electronic device used to make mobile telephone calls across a wide geographic area.

• In addition to being a telephone, modern mobile phones also support many additional services such as SMS, e-mail, Internet access, gaming, Bluetooth and infrared, camera, MMS messaging, MP3 player, radio and GPS

• First mobile phone was made in 1946 and had a weight of 40 kg.

MOBILE OPERATING SYSTEM

According to Wikipedia A Mobile operating system, also known as a

Mobile OS, a Mobile platform, or a Handheld operating system, is the operating system that controls a mobile device—similar in principle to an operating system such as Linux or Windows that controls a desktop computer or laptop.

STRANGE FACT

Its sounds strange but the fact is that :-

More than 90% of the CPUs in the world are not in desktops and notebooks.

But in embedded systems like cell phones, PDA’s ,digital cameras, camcorders, game machines, iPods, Mp3 Players, TV Sets, GPS Receivers and many more consumer products.

LIST OF MOBILE OS

Symbian Android iOS RIM BlackBerry OS Windows 7.5 Bada MeeGo (Tizen)

MARKET SHARE

Symbian is an open source operating system and software platform designed for smartphones.

The Symbian platform was created by merging and integrating software assets contributed by Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Sony Ericsson and Symbian Ltd.

VERSIONS OF SYMBIAN OS

Series 60 3rd edition Feature Pack 2 Symbian^1 (Series 60 5th edition) Symbian^2 Symbian^3/Symbian^4 Symbian Anna Symbian Belle

Android is a software platform and operating system for mobile devices, based on the Linux kernel, developed by Google

Android, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California, United States in October, 2003

VERSION HISTORY

2.0/2.1 (Eclair) 2.2 (Froyo) 2.3 (Gingerbread) 3.0 (Honeycomb) 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)

Windows Phone 7.5 is a major software update for Windows Phone, the mobile operating system by Microsoft.

It was launched on September 27, 2011.

FEATURES OF MANGO

Built-in voice-to-text/text-to-voice functionality, which will allow for hands-free texting or chatting.

Skydrive and Office 365 documents sync (PDF also supported).

MeeGo is a Linux-based open source mobile operating system project.

It was first announced at Mobile World Congress in February 2010 by Intel and Nokia.

FIRST MEEGO PHONE

In September 2011 it was announced by Intel and the Linux Foundation that MeeGo will be totally replaced by Tizen during 2012.

Tizen will be a new free and open source Linux-based operating-system which itself will be released in the first quarter of 2012.