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Mobile Operating System

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 or information appliance

Examples: Smartphone Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) Tablet Computers

History:• The increasing importance of mobile devices has triggered

intense competition among technology giants, like Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Nokia in a bid to capture the bigger market share pre-emptively.

• Palm, Research in Motion and Ericsson are also significant firms in the mobile platform sector.

• In November 2007, Google formed a Linux-based open source alliance to make inroads into this mobile platform market, raising consumer awareness of the growing mobile platform frenzy.

Smartphone operating systems

•Android•Access Linux•LiMo•MeeGo

Linux-Based

•BlackBerry OS•Palm OS•Windows Mobile (Microsoft)

Other

•BREW•Java ME (FX Mobile)

Related Platforms

Subcategories

I • IOS(Apple)

M • Mobile phone operating systems

W • Windows Mobile 7

Market Description◦ Mobile platforms are in the nascent stage, and any

projection regarding the market growth is hard to make at the present time. It is noteworthy that Intel is taking the initiative to focus on portable devices other than mobile phones. They are Mobile Internet Devices (MID) and Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC). Meantime, Palm abandoned its plan to develop Foleo, which was to be a companion device for a Smartphone.

 Worldwide Smartphone operating system market shares

Mobile navigation Canalys has estimated that in 2009 the installed

base of Smartphone with integrated GPS was 163 million units worldwide, of which Nokia accounted for more than half (51%) having shipped cumulatively 83 million GPS devices. On January 22, 2010, Nokia released a free version of Ovi Maps which is expected to double user amount.

 Smartphone operating systems feature comparison

Feature iOS AndroidWindows Mobile

Black-Berry OS

Company Apple Open Handset Alliance(Google)

Microsoft RIM

OS Family Mac OS X/Unix-like

Linux Windows CE 5.2

Mobile OS

Programmed in

C, C++, Objective-C

C, C++, Java

C++ Java

Current Version

4.1 2.2 7 6.0.0

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