Operating System Many people have extensive knowledge about various mobile phones and their companies, but very few of them know anything a...
Operating System Many people have extensive knowledge about various mobile phones and their companies, but very few of them know anything about operating systems which is indeed very important to 16 know about since only by knowing will customers can really understand what is behind the smartphone smoothness and colorful touchscreen. Symbian OS used to be a closed source mobile operating system but it is now an open source platform. It is widely used by many brands such as Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericson and above all Nokia. Nokia remains a giant in the low-end market of mobile phones, and it remained as the most popular OS until 2012. Though it is still widely used in low-end phones, but there has been a sharp decrease in demand rate. Overall, the Symbian OS is designed excellently and very easy to use.
Unfortunately, Symbian OS graph is going down today due to the popularity of Android and iOS. Some phones are currently running on Symbian OS are the Nokia C6-01, Nokia 603, Nokia 700, Nokia 808 Pure View, Nokia E6 (ANNA) and Nokia 701 (BELLE). Blackberry OS is the property of RIM (Research in Motion) and was first released in 1999. RIM has developed this operating system for the Blackberry line of smart phones. Blackberry is quite different than other operating systems. The brand is famous for its style of interface design. Their smart phones have a trackball to move on the menu and a QWERTY keyboard Like Apple, Blackberry OS is a closed source operating system and not available for any other manufacturer. Currently the latest version of this operating system is Blackberry OS 7.1 was introduced in May 2011 and is used in the Blackberry Bold 9930. It is an operating system very reliable and immune to almost all virus. Some of the smart phone works on the Blackberry OS Blackberry Bold, Blackberry Curve, Blackberry Torch and Blackberry 8520 (Chris 2009). Most of you must be familiar with Microsoft operating system since it is used in almost every computers worldwide. However, it is quite difficult to use when it is designed to function on a mobile phone. But it still gains a lot of attention and rapidly becomes popular. One reason for its success could be that it is operated on very powerful devices made by Nokia. Even Samsung and HTC also released a number of Windows-based phones, but they may not have much in the market place. Nokia Lumia series is entirely based on the window. Some of the newest Windows Phone Nokia Lumia 800, Nokia Lumia 900, Samsung Focus and HTC Titan 2
. Microsoft is now hard at work on Windows 10, which will be a unified OS that runs on everything from PC’s to 17 tablets and phones. Microsoft’s problem isn’t the technology or software, but rather the issue of winning the hearts and minds of consumers. Unfortunately, in the race to win the smartphone OS battle, it’s hard to see Windows Phone or BlackBerry make any inroads into Android and iOS’ market share anytime soon due to this reason: most smartphone buyers tend to fall into two categories: those who love Android huge selection of devices and prices or those who prefer a closed system worked on a premium devices such as IPhone and IPad. Google first released Android on September 20, 2008 and this operating system quickly gained immense popularity thanks to its beautiful appearance and a huge amount of applications.
Google Play is an official app market which contains millions of different apps for android devices. Top manufacturers are using Android in their devices are Samsung, HTC and Sony. Currently Android is one of the top operating systems and is considered a serious threat for iPhone. As for it wide range of price, Android market share is strongest in low income countries. Turing to IOS operating system, it was introduced in 29th June 2007 and through many upgrades it has reached IOS 8. It is still exclusive used by Apple and unlike Android, the company focus on the performance rather than appearance. In another word, Apple sell experience, not hardware. IOS also has App Store which contains millions of applications. One benefit over Android is that it is a closed system so its security is much better and at the moment it is still the best looking phone.
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