SMART OS
Saturday, March 20, 2010
, Posted by gurur@j at 3/20/2010 11:37:00 PM
There are seven smart phone operating systems that are widely used in the market today.
Symbian OS:Symbian,owned by nokia,has the largest share in the worldwide smart phone market although its market
share is very small in north America.
Although symbian is used by another handset manufactures as well,each of symbian due to which all applications are incompatible across the different versions.
RIM Black berry:Research in motion's blackberry is a well-known business phone known for its strong email and productivity
applications.RIM is soon going to release a version of blackberry that will run on windows mobile as a virtual machine.
Windows Mobile:Windows Mobile is Microsoft's smartphone operating system,currently at version6.5.substantial improvements
and better touch screen
THE PIE CHART SHOWS SALES OF SMART PHONE AS OF Q4 2008.SOURCE:Gartner Research
support are expected in the upcoming version 7.
i phone os:This is a lighter version of apple's Mac OS x.The latest version is 3.0.
Linux:Linux is an open source operating system.Many companies,including Motorola,use it in their smart phones after changing the source code as per their requirements.Linux is available free of cost.
Palm web OS:Palm has been losing market share over the last few years.The new palm device,the palm pre has gotten good reviews as an i phone challenger.
Android:As of q2 2009,Google's android had a 20% share of the worldwide smart phone market(source:Gartner).It is based on Linux and is an open source operating system.
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