Prepared By:-

Ajay Bansal
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a) Network Connectivity.
c) mapping Series 60 and Symbian OS.


 
a) Programming Languages



 a. Introduction



 


½
 is an open source operating system (OS) and software platform
designed for smartphones and maintained by Nokia. The Symbian platform is
the successor to Symbian OS and Nokia Series 60. The latest version,
Symbian^3, was officially released in Q4 20a0, first used in the Nokia N8.

½The Smartphone operating system Symbian OS is produced by the software

development and licensing company Symbian Ltd.

½Symbian Ltd was established in June a 8 and is headquartered in

Southwark in the UK, and the current CEO is Nigel Clifford.

½The native language of the Symbian OS is C++, there for, our research will
passes through the programming languages that can be used on Symbian.
Symbian Owners

ð Ericsson (a
.6%)
ð Nokia (47. %)
ð Panasonic (a0.
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ð Samsung (4.
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ð Siemens (8.4%)
ð Sony Ericsson (a3.a%)
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Symbian OS is the leading OS in

the smart mobile device market.

Symbian OS has nearly 67% share

of the smart mobile device market,
with microsoft having a3% through
Windows mobile and RIm having a0%
Business.

Other competitors include Palm OS,

iPhone OS, BREW, Google Android,
Linux.
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Change of version a.2 for the Bluetooth has version 2.0
where the difference is the introduction of an Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) for
faster data transfer.




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Packet Access) appear on Symbian OS.




* +' This last version includes native-support for mobile digital
television broadcasts in DVB-H and ISDB-T formats and also location
services.
 Series 60 ast Edition

ð mobile phones with the following services

ð SmS, EmS, mmS, J2mE, XHTmL
ð Operating System
ð Symbian
ð Display
ð a76 x 208 Pixel

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ð Nokia 3600
ð Nokia 3620 (GSm 8
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successor of the 36
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ð Nokia 36
0,Nokia 3660
ð Nokia N-Gage and N-Gage QD
ð Samsung SGH-D700
ð Sendo X
ð Sendo X2
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ð mobile phones with the following services

ð As before with UI metrics and unique
icons etc
ð Operating System
ð Symbian
ð Display
ð a76 x 208 Pixel (Standard)
ð 208 x a76 Pixel [Landscape]
ð 240 x 320 Pixel (Quarter QVGA)
ð 320 x 240 Pixel [Landscape]
ð 3
2 x 4a6 Pixel (Double)
ð 4a6 x 3
2 Pixel [Landscape]
ð Feature Pack a:
ð HTmL Browser-Extensions
ð EDGE support
ð Feature Pack 2:
ð Support for W-CDmA (UmTS)
(universal mobile telecommunication
system)
ð Feature Pack 3:
ð Scalable UI
ð Larger resolutions (240 x 320 und 3
2 x
4a
Pixel)
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Series60 2nd Ed ĺ OS v7.0
Series60 2nd Ed FPa ĺ OS v7.0s
Series60 2nd Ed FP2 ĺ OS v8.0
Series60 2nd Ed FP3 ĺ OS v8.a
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-a. as the first release, forms the basis for the platform. It incorporates Symbian
OS and S60
th Edition (which is built on Symbian OS .4) and thus it was not made
available as open source.

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- was the first royalty-free version of Symbian. On June a, 20a0, a number of
Japanese companies including DoComo and Sharp announced smartphones using
Symbian^2.

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was announced on a
February 20a0. It was designed to be a more µnext
generation¶ smartphone platform. The Symbian^3 release introduced new features such as a
new 2D and 3D graphics architecture, UI improvements, and support for external displays
through HDmI. Four phones with the open source Symbian^3 have been released, the Nokia
N8, Nokia C6-0a, Nokia E7-00 and Nokia C7-00.

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was expected to be released in the first half of 20aa. However, Nokia
announced in October 20a0 that Symbian^4 will not ship as a separate release. Instead,
improvements to Symbian will be delivered as software updates to all current Symbian^3
devices.
 3. Software development

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Symbian OS offers a choice of programming languages to the developer.
Symbian OS is written in C++ , and this is therefore regarded as its
primary programming language.
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 Key characteristics

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: -Symbian OS is a multitasking and

multithreaded operating system. many processes can run concurrently , can
communicate with each other, and can utilize multiple threads that run internal to
each process.
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:-Symbian OS organizes access to
system storage using a file system model, just like larger Operating systems. It has a
default file system compatible with windows (by default it uses FAT-32 file system). It
supports other file system implementations through a plug-in style interface. It
supports several different file systems , like FAT a6 & FAT 32, NTFS etc.
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: -Symbian OS supports TCP/IP networking as well as several
other communication interfaces such as serial , infrared and Bluetooth.


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