Symbian OS is officially the property of Nokia. It means that any other company will
have to take permission from Nokia before using this operating system. Nokia
has remained a giant in low-end mobile market, so after Java symbian was the
most used in the mobile phones till a couple of years ago. Still Symbian is
widely used in low-end phones but the demand rate has ben
continuously decreasing. By upgrading Symbian mobile OS, Nokia has made it
capable to run smartphones efficiently. Symbian ANNA and BELLE
are the two latest updates which are currently used in Nokia’s smartphones.
Overall, the Symbian OS is excellently designed and is very user-friendly.Unfortunately, Symbian OS graph is going downwards nowadays due to the immense popularity of Android and iOS.
Some of the phones currently running on Symbian OS are Nokia C6-01, Nokia 603, Nokia 700, Nokia 808 Pure View, Nokia E6 (ANNA) and Nokia 701 (BELLE). Symbian is a popular choice among nokia dual sim mobile phones as well.
Android
September 20th 2008 was the date when Google
released the first Android OS by the name of ‘Astro’. After
some time next upgraded versions ‘Bender’ and ‘Cupcake’ were also released.
Google then adopted the trend of naming android versions after any dessert or a
sweet in alphabetical order. The other releases are Donut, Éclair, Froyo,
Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean. Jelly Bean is so far
the latest android version from google. Since the platform is not closed like
IOS, there are too many great android apps
built by developers.
Just after stepping into the smart phone and tablets market Android gained
immense popularity due to its beautiful appearance and efficient working. Many
new features were introduced which played a significant role in Android’s
success. Google Play is
an official app market which contains millions of different apps for android
devices. Samsung,
HTC, Motorola and many other top manufacturers are using Android in their
devices. Currently Android is one of the top operating systems and is
considered a serious threat for iPhone.Some of the smartphones operating on Android are HTC Desire, Samsung Galaxy Gio, Motorola Droid Razr, Samsung Galaxy S3 and HTC Wilfire.
Apple iOS
iOS was introduced in 29th June 2007 when the
first iPhone was developed. Since then iOS has been under gone many upgrades
and currently the latest one is the iOS 6. Apple has still not allowed any
other manufacturer to lay hands on its operating system. Unlike Android, Apple
has more concentrated on the performance rather than appearance. This is the
reason that the basic appearance of iOS is almost the same as it was in 2007.
Overall it is very user-friendly and is one of the best operating systems in
the world.So far iOS has been used in iPhone, iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, not to mention their tablet pcs branded as iPad 3, iPad 2 and iPad.
Blackberry OS
Blackberry OS is the property of RIM (Research In Motion) and was first released in 1999.
RIM has developed this operating system for its Blackberry line of smartphones.
Blackberry is much different from other operating systems. The interface style
as well as the smart phone design is also different having a trackball for
moving on the menu and a qwerty keyboard.Like Apple, Blackberry OS is a close source OS and is not available for any other manufacturer. Currently the latest release of this operating system is Blackberry OS 7.1 which was introduced in May 2011 and is used in Blackberry Bold 9930. It is a very reliable OS and is immune to almost all the viruses.
Some of the smartphones operating on Blackberry OS are Blackberry Bold, Blackberry Curve, Blackberry Torch and Blackberry 8520.
Windows OS
All of you will be familiar with Windows OS because it is used in computers
all over the world. Windows OS has been also been used in mobile phones but
normal mobile phone users find it a bit difficult to operate it but at the same
time it was very popular among people who were used to it.
This was the case until Nokia and Microsoft joined hands to work together.
The latest Windows release by Microsoft is known as Windows 7 which has gained
immense popularity among all kind of users. With its colourful and user
friendly interface it has given Windows OS a new life and is currently in
demand all over the world. Another reason behind its success is that this
latest OS is used in very powerful devices made by Nokia. The computer like
look has totally vanished from the windows phones with the release of Windows
7. Samsung and HTC also released some Windows based phones but they could not
much place in the market.Nokia Lumia series is completely windows based. Some of the latest Windows Phones are Nokia Lumia 800, Nokia Lumia 900, Samsung Focus and HTC Titan 2. If you are not on windows mobile os and using windows for your pc, this is how you can run .jar games on your pc.
BADA
Like others Samsung also owns an operating system which is known as BADA. It is designed for mid
range and high end smartphones. Bada is a quiet user friendly and efficient
operating system, much like Android but unfortunately Samsung did not use Bada
on a large scale for unknown reasons.
The latest version Bada 2.0.5 was released on March 15th 2012.
There are only 3 phones which are operating on Bada. These three smartphones
are Samsung Wave, Samsung Wave 2 and Samsung Wave 3. I believe that Bada would
have achieved much greater success if Samsung had promoted it properly.Read out how you can use Picasa on Bada mobiles.
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