SMARTPHONESBy: Nathan Sterling

Invention of Smartphones• A smartphone is a mobile phone built on a mobile

operating system, with more advanced computing capability connectivity than a feature phone.

• Later additions:• Portable media players• Compact digital cameras• Pocket video cameras• GPS navigation units• Touchscreens• Web browsers• Wi-Fi accessible • App markets

Invention of Smartphones• Although devices combining telephony and computing were

conceptualized as early as 1973 and were offered for sale beginning in 1994, the term "smartphone" did not appear until 1997, when Ericsson described its GS 88 "Penelope" concept as a "Smart Phone".

• The first cellular phone to incorporate PDA features was an IBM prototype developed in 1992 and demonstrated that year at the COMDEX computer industry trade show. A refined version of the product was marketed to consumers on 16 August 1994 by BellSouth under the name Simon Personal Communicator. The Simon was the first device that can be properly referred to as a "smartphone“. In addition to its ability to make and receive cellular phone calls, Simon was also able to send and receive facsimiles, e-mails and pages through its touch screen display. Simon included many applications including an address book, calendar, appointment scheduler, calculator, world time clock, games, electronic note pad, handwritten annotations and standard and predictive touchscreen keyboards.

• Picture of Simon on previous slide

Smartphone Operating Systems• Symbian• Blackberry• Android• iOS• Windows Phone• Palm OS• Bada

• Symbian originated from EPOC, an operating system created by Psion in the 1980s. In June 1998, Psion Software became Symbian Ltd., a major joint venture between Psion and phone manufacturers:• Ericsson• Motorola• Nokia

• Afterwards, different software platforms were created for Symbian, backed by different groups of mobile phone manufacturers:• S60 (Nokia, Samsung and LG) >>• UIQ (Sony Ericsson and Motorola)• MOAP(S) (Japanese only such as Fujitsu, Sharp etc.).

• The first BlackBerry device, the 850, was introduced in 1999 as a two-way pager in Munich, Germany. The name BlackBerry was coined by the marketing company Lexicon Branding.

• In 2003, the more commonly known smartphone BlackBerry was released, which supports:• Push email• Mobile telephone• Text messaging• Internet faxing• Web browsing

Android: Operating System• Android, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California in

October 2003.• Google acquired Android Inc. on August 17, 2005, making

it a wholly owned subsidiary of Google.• Android's user interface is based on direct manipulation,

using touch inputs that loosely correspond to real-world actions, like swiping, tapping, pinching and reverse pinching to manipulate on-screen objects.

• Android has a growing selection of third party applications, which can be acquired by users either through an app store such as Google Play or the Amazon Appstore.

• The operating system was unveiled with the iPhone at the Macworld Conference & Expo, January 9, 2007, and released in June of that year.

• In June 2010, Apple rebranded iPhone OS as "iOS". • The trademark "IOS" had been used by Cisco

for over a decade for its operating system, IOS, used on its routers.

• The home screen displays application icons and a dock at the bottom of the screen where users can pin their most frequently used apps. >>

• Work on a major Windows Mobile update may have begun as early as 2004 under the codename "Photon", but work moved slowly and the project was ultimately cancelled.

• In 2008, Microsoft reorganized the Windows Mobile group and started work on a new mobile operating system.

• Windows Phone features a user interface based on Microsoft's Windows Phone design system, codenamed Metro, and was inspired by the user interface in the Zune HD.

• The home screen, called the "Start screen", is made up of "Live Tiles", which have been the inspiration for the Windows 8 live tiles.

Palm OS• Palm OS was originally developed under the direction of

Jeff Hawkins at Palm Computing, Inc.• Palm OS is a proprietary mobile operating system.

Designed in 1996 for Palm Computing, Inc.'s new Pilot PDA, it has been implemented on a wide array of mobile devices, including smartphones, wrist watches, handheld gaming consoles, barcode readers and GPS devices.

• Applications

• After the announcement, the Wave S8500 was first shown at Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona in February 2010. • At that time, applications running on the first Bada

phone were demonstrated, including Gameloft's Asphalt 5.

• After the launch, companies such as Twitter, EA, Capcom, Gameloft and Blockbuster showed their support for the Bada platform.

• Bada, as Samsung defines it, is not an operating system itself, but a platform with a kernel configurable architecture, which allows using either a proprietary real-time operating system hybrid (RTOS) kernel or the Linux kernel.

App Stores• Apple's App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch launched in

July 2008, popularized manufacturer-hosted online distribution for third-party applications focused on a single platform.

• Following the success of Apple's App Store other smartphone manufacturers quickly launched application stores of their own. • Google launched the Android Market in October 2008.

Store 2009 (millions U.S.) 2010 (millions U.S.)

Apple App Store $769 $1782

Blackberry App World $36 $165

Nokia Ovi Store $13 $105

Google Play $11 $102

Total $828 $2155