Symbian OS is one of the most secured, customized and open source operating system developed by Psion company. It is used by all the leading mobile manufacturers in the world and it is fast developing Operating system in the advanced mobile phones. This operating system works with the latest generation mobiles such as 2g,3g, 2,5g etc. Main advantage of this operating system is that it combines power of IAE with mobile telephony. Symbian operating system brought revolutionary changes in Mobile telephony and wireless industry and is now accepted by all the Software developers, mobile phone manufacturers and network operators.
Symbian OS supports a wide range of device categories with several user interfaces, including Nokia- S60, UIQ and the NTT DoCoMo common software platform for 3G FOMA handsets. The common functionality of all Symbian APIs works fine with all these mobile platforms and categories.
Symbian OS is very compact as it needs very less memory space to fit in a mobile phone and it also has full- fledged OS in terms of functionality. Some of the powerful components of this Operating System
Robust Multi-tasking kernel
Wide Range communication protocols
Data Management
Advanced Graphics support
Lower level user Interface
Variety of Application engines.
Greatness of Symbian system:
Some of good features of Symbian Operating system are
Integrated Multimode Mobile Telephony:
Symbian OS introduced a revolution in the mobile telephony by using the power of computing with mobile telephony. Symbian provided an advanced data services to the mobile users in 2g, 2.5g and 3g generation mobile phones.
Text and Multimedia Messaging:
This Operating system supports SMS, EMS, MMS, email and fax. Multimedia messaging includes MMS, Fax, Emails are the important revenue generators for 2.5g, 3g networks.
Application Environment:
This OS enables mobile phones to be a platform for deployment of wide range of applications and services developed in various languages (Java and C++) and content formats
Standards and interoperability:
This OS was implemented in a flexible and modular fashion and provides a core set of technologies and Environments. It also supports industry Key standards such as IP v4, IP v6, Bluetooth wireless technology, WAP Java and SyncML.
Multi-tasking:
Symbian OS includes multi tasking kernel to support multi tasking features and is developed with fully object-oriented and component-based technologies.
Robustness:
This operating system maintains Data Integrity and accepts data from the user quickly.
User Interface Designing Environment: Symbian provides flexible, feature rich graphical user interface design environment and also offers choice for manufacturers, carriers, enterprises and end-users. Using the same core OS in different designs also eases application porting for third party developers.
Author: David Adam Webb
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
Provided by: Latest trends in mobile phone
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