PREPARED BY:

GOVIND SHARMA

An operating system (OS) is an interface between hardware and user, It manages the
hardware and software resources of the system
The operating system that controls mobile device is called Mobile OS. They are
simple and deal with the wireless versions of broadband and local connectivity, mobile
multimedia formats and different input methods etc
The first smartphone was the IBM simon in 1994 which has touch screen , email, &
PDA feature

A layer structure showing where operating system is located

(Structure of OS)

1] Symbian OS
2] Android OS
3] iPhone OS (iOS )
4] BlackBerry OS
5] Windows Phone 7 ( Windows Mobile )
6] Palm OS (Garnet OS)
7] Palm webOS

Palm OS is a proprietary mobile operating system, designed in 1996 by

Palm Computing, Inc.
Palm OS is designed for ease of use with a touch screen-based graphical
user interface
It has been implemented on a wide array of mobile devices, including smartphones, wrist watches, handheld gaming consoles, barcode readers and
GPS devices.

Some of the Key Features of Palm OS

Simple, Multi-tasking environment
Handwriting recognition input system
TCP/IP network access

Software development
Language: C/C++
IDEs: CodeWarrior Development Studio, PRC-tools based gcc.

(Palm OS Layers)

(Home Screen)

(Menu)

(Notepad & Touch Keyboard)

The Smartphone operating system Symbian OS is produced by the software

development and licensing company Symbian Ltd.
Symbian Ltd was established in June 1998 and is headquartered in Southwark
in the UK, and the current CEO is Nigel Clifford.
Research
The native language of the Symbian OS is C++, there for, our research will
passes through the programming languages that can be used on Symbian.
Current version is nokia belle os and maintained by Accenture.
Symbian originated from Epoc,an os creatd by psion in 1980s.

OS Layers

(Home Screen)

(Menu Screen)

(Applications Menu)

 Google's Android

is an open-source platform that's

currently available on a wide variety of smart phones.
Android is a software stack for mobile devices that
includes an operating system, middleware and key
applications.
The Android SDK provides the tools and APIs
necessary to begin developing applications on the
Android platform using the Java programming
language.
Based on the Linux kernel

Android, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto,California, United

States in October 2003 by Andy Rubin (co-founder of
Danger), Rich Miner (co-founder of Wildfire
Communications, Inc.), Nick Sears and Chris White to
develop.
Google financially backed the initial developer of the
software, Android Inc., and later purchased it in 2005.
The unveiling of the Android distribution in 5th Nov 2007
was announced with the founding of the Open Handset
Alliance.
Google releases the Android code as open source,
under the Apache license.

Open Handset Alliance (OHA)

It's a consortium of several companies

VERSIONS
Version

Name

Date Of Launch

1.

Android 1.0

Alpha or Astro

23rd Sept 2008

2.

Android 1.1

Beta or Bander

9th

3.

Android 1.5

CupCake

30th April 2009

4.

Android 1.6

DoNut

15th Sept 2009

5.

Android 2.0 & 2.1

clair

26th Oct

6.

Android 2.2

Froyo

20th May 2010

7.

Android 2.3

GingerBread

6th

8.

Android 3.0

HoneyComb

22nd Feb

2011

9.

Android 4.0

Ice Cream Sandwich

19th Oct

2011

10. Android 4.2

Jelly Bean

13th Nov 2012

11. Android 5.0

Key Lime Pie

Not Yet Launch

Feb

2009

2009

Dec 2010

Usage share of the different versions as of August 2, 2012. Most

Android devices to date run still the older OS version 2.3.x
Gingerbread that was released on December 6, 2010.

Version

Release date

API level

Distribution
(02 August
2012)

4.1.x Jelly
Bean

July 10, 2012

16

0.8%

4.0.x Ice
Cream
Sandwich

October 19,
2011

14-15

15.9%

3.x.x
Honeycomb

February 22,
2011

11-13

2.3%

2.3.x
Gingerbread

December 6,
2010

9-10

60.6%

2.2 Froyo

May 20, 2010

15.5%

2.0, 2.1 Eclair

October 26,
2009

4.2%

1.6 Donut

September
15, 2009

0.5%

1.5 Cupcake

April 30, 2009 3

0.2%

Android

Runtime

Includes a set of core libraries of JAVA that provides

most of the functionality
Runs in its own process, with its own instance of the
Dalvik Virtual Machine
The Dalvik VM executes files in the Dalvik
Executable (.dex)
Linux Kernel
Acts as an abstraction layer between the hardware
and the rest of the software stack.
Relies on Linux version 2.6 for core system services
such as security, memory management, process
management, network stack, and driver model.

package com.google.android.helloactivity;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
public class HelloActivity extends Activity {
public HelloActivity() {
}
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
super.onCreate(icicle);
setContentView(R.layout.hello_activity);
}
}

Features
Multiple language support
Java support
Additional hardware support

Multi-touch
Video calling
Tethering

The Android OS has knocked Apple out of the number 1

slot.
GARTNER says second quarter sales of 2012 ::Android
has 23.5% while Apple has 6.9%.
Not only are Android-powered devices now outselling
iPhone but theyre also now beating BlackBerry,
making Android the top selling mobile OS during the
second quarter in the U.S.
GARTNER has the race at Android 64.1%, RIM 5.2%,
and Apple 18.8% of smartphones.

Gartner: World-Wide Smartphone Sales (% of Smartphones / % of All phones)

Windows
Quarter
RIM
Mobile

Symbian iOS

Android Bada

Other
Windows
Smartph Total Smartphones
Phone
ones

2012 Q2

5.2% / 1. 5.9% / 2. 18.8% / 64.1% / 2.7% / 1. 2.7% / 1. 0.6% / 0.

100.0% / 36.7%
9%
2%
6.9%
23.5% 0%
0%
2%

2012 Q1

6.9% / 2. 8.6% / 3. 22.9% / 56.1% / 2.7% / 0. 1.9% / 0. 0.9% / 0.

100.0% / 34.5%
4%
0%
7.9%
19.3% 9%
6%
3%

2011

0.2% / 0. 10.9% / 18.7% / 18.9% / 46.5% / 2.0% / 0. 1.7% / 0. 1.0% / 0.

100.0% / 26.6%
1%
2.9%
5.0%
5.0%
12.4% 5%
4%
3%

2010

4.1% / 0. 16.6% / 37.3% / 15.6% / 22.5% / 1.2% / 0. 0.0% / 0. 2.6% / 0.

100.0% / 18.7%
8%
3.1%
7.0%
2.9%
4.2%
2%
0%
5%

2009

8.7% / 1. 19.9% / 46.9% / 14.4% / 3.9% / 0.

2%
2.8%
6.7%
2.1%
6%

6.1% / 0.
100.0% / 14.2%
9%

2008

11.8% / 16.6% / 52.4% / 8.2% / 0. 0.0% / 0.

1.3%
1.9%
6.0%
9%
0%

11.0% /
100.0% / 11.4%
1.3%

2007

12.0% / 9.6% / 1. 63.5% / 2.7% / 0.

1.3%
0%
6.7%
3%

12.2% /
100.0% / 10.6%
1.3%

IDC: World-Wide Smartphone Shipments (Millions of Units)[22]

Quarter

Android

iOS

Symbian

BlackBerry
Linux
OS

Windows
Phone

Other

Total

2012 Q2

104.8

26.0

6.8

7.4

3.5

5.4

0.1

154.0

2012 Q1

89.9

35.1

10.4

9.7

3.5

3.3

0.4

152.3

2011 Q4

83.4

36.3

18.3

12.8

3.8

2.4

0.8

157.8

2011 Q3

67.7

16.3

17.3

11.3

3.9

1.4

0.1

118.1

2011 Q2

50.8

20.4

18.3

12.5

3.3

2.5

0.6

108.4

2011 Q1

36.7

18.6

26.4

13.8

3.2

2.6

0.3

101.6

MOST POPULAR APPS

NEWS

: BBC News , NDTV News , FOX News , NBC News etc.

TRAVEL : Navigation , STREET View , MAPS , M-INDICATOR etc.

FREE CALLING & SMS :
Calling : VIBER , Free CoMM , Skype , LINE etc.
SMS : Free SMS INDIA , GO SMS Pro , Tango Text etc.

GAMES :TEMPLE Run , Angry Bird , Cut The Rope , Battle Racing
3D etc.
SOCIAL NETWORKING : FACEBOOK , TWEETER , YAHOO Massanger etc.

CONNECTIVITY
It supports wireless communications using:

GSM mobile-phone technology

3G

Edge

Wi-Fi networks

Blutetooth
Portable Wi-Fi hotspot

Android Battery Drain Easily.

Android is Open source code as Other operating systems such
as iOS and Blackberry are closed-source
Running Apps is forcely close if it too Large.
It heats very early.
The phone itself has very little memory storage, so you have to
keep large apps, videos, and photos on a card.
Bluetooth limitations
oAndroid doesn't support:
Bluetooth stereo
Contacts exchange
Modem pairing
Wireless keyboards
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 Android

is open to all: industry, developers

and users
Participating in many of the successful open
source projects
https://developers.google.com/android/
Aims

to be as easy to build for as the web.

Google Android is stepping into the next level
of Mobile Internet.

IOS
TEAM MEMBERS

Steve Jobs
Steve Wozniak

Ronald Wayne

iPhone OS is a mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc and

released 1st gen in june 2007 and current ver is 5s and 5c.
Current system on chip is apple A7.
The user interface of iPhone OS is based on multi-touch gestures.

Some of the Features of iPhone OS

Multi-touch User interface
POP/IMAP/SMTP e-mail
Background Processing
Software development
Language: Objective C
IDE: XCode
OS: Mac OS X Leopard or later

OS Layers

(Home Screen)
Touch Keyboard

BlackBerry OS

BlackBerry OS is developed by Research

In Motion for its BlackBerry line of
smartphone handheld devices in 1999. It is
founded by mike lazaridis. The Latest
phones are BlackBerry Z10,q10,q5) which is
released on jan and may 2013. This mobile
supports all latest feature of Blackberry.

Windows Mobile update begun in 2004

under codename photon by Microsoft , but
officially launched windows phone 7 in 2010.
The current version is "Windows
Mobile 8.1 and 8.5. kernel type is windows
NT in win 8 and programmed in c,c++.

Originally called the wallet

PC
Launched in 1996 with
Version 1.0 of Windows CE
Superseded in the following
year with Version 2.0
Initially available in keyboard
and keyboard-less versions

There are many types of Windows OS such as:

Windows Mobile Classic devices (Pocket PC)

Windows Mobile Smartphones
Windows Mobile 2003
Windows Mobile 2003 SE
Windows Mobile 5
Windows Mobile 6
Windows Mobile 6.1
Windows Mobile 6.5
Windows Mobile 6.5.1
Windows Mobile 6.5.3
Windows Mobile 6.5.5
Windows Phone 7.5
Windows Phone 8

Cabir: June 20, 2004, Symbian OS, Bluetooth worm

DUTS: July 17, 2004, Win CE, File sharing and email virus
BRADOR: August 5, 2004, Win CE, requires manual installation, first know
backdoor
Qdial: August 12, 2004, Symbian OS, replicates through Mosquitoes game,
sends SMS to premium rate numbers
Skulls: November 21, 2004, Symbian OS, trojan that replicates through file
sharing networks
Velasco: December 29, 2004, Symbian OS, Bluetooth worm
Locknut (Gavno): February 1, 2005, Symbian OS, replicates via download
from Symbian patch sites
CommonWarrior: March 7, 2005, Symbian OS, spreads over
Bluetooth/MMS
Dampig: March 8, 2005, Symbian OS, malicious file dropper
Cardtrap: September 20, 2005, Symbian OS, Trojan that spreads to users
PC through phones memory card

BREW(Binary Runtime For Wireless) - created by Qualcomm

THE ACCESS LINUX - Access Co. Tokyo, Japan.

LIMO - LiMo Foundation
BOOT TO GECKO MOZILLA FOUNDATION
ALIYUN OS ALIBABA.COM/ALI CLOUD
TIZEN THE LINUX FOUNDATION(SAMSUNG)

MELTEMI NOKIA
MAEMO NOKIA
MEEGO THE LINUX FOUNDATION

[1] Palm OS, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_OS

[2] Palm OS is a multitasking operating system. How can I create a task?, http://kb.palmsource.com/cgibin/palmsource.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=72
[3] Palm OS Programmers companion- Volume I, http://www.accesscompany.com/developers/documents/docs/palmos/PalmOSCompanion/CompanionTOC.html
[4] Mobile Operating Systems,
http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/site/dsonline/menuitem.9ed3d9924aeb0dcd82ccc6716bbe36ec/in
dex.jsp?&pName=dso_level1&path=dsonline/topics/os&file=MobileOS.xml&xsl=article.xsl&##archive
s
[5] Symbian OS,
http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/images/7/77/Symbian_OS_Struct
ure.png&imgrefurl=http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Symbian_OS&h=260&w=467&sz=10&hl=en
&start=45&sig2=Hx5G5bWIQo_Hc3_kni4lgw&um=1&tbnid=PeArbbX9LhuMaM:&tbnh=71&tbnw=128
&ei=ZStJSIKCNaLGgwKe09nXAw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmobile%2Boperating%2Bsystem%2Bstr
ucture%26start%3D36%26ndsp%3D18%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
[6] Symbian OS, http://www.symbian.com/files/rx/file6965.pdf
[7] Mobile Phones, the Embeded Linux Challenge, http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8762
[8] iPhone SDK, http://cssinnovations.blogspot.com/2008/05/iphone-sdk-iphone-sdk-was-officially.html

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