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Hassam Rasheed BAT11327

Daniyal Ali BAT11362

Junaid Siddiq BAT11318

Umair Tariq BAT11315
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 Android
Windows
Mobile
Black-
Berry OS
Company Apple Open
Handset
Alliance(Goo
gle)
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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