Operating Systems for Mobiles

Though  application developers are working hard on application development for mobiles from long time recently it catches my eye..

so thought to learn it and share the info with enthusiasts …

As multiple number of mobiles are flooding the market now a days but they had to run on few Mobile OS available.

Among the list of MObile OS’s top few were stated here….

1. Android from Google

Android Logo

Android OS was developed by a small company which was later purchased by Google Inc..Android OS extensively used for Mobiles and in Tablets it has around 18% of market capture…Recent versions of Android (4.0) named as Ice Cream Sandwich .Android OS supports major hardware platforms like ARM , MIPS , x86 .To know more about Android Operating System..

Android OS wiki

2.Apple iOS from Apple

Apple iOS

The Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and second-generation Apple TV all use an operating system called iOS, which is derived from Mac OS X. Native third party applications were not officially supported until the release of iOS 2.0 on July 11th 2008. Before this, “jailbreaking” allowed third party applications to be installed, and this method is still available. Currently all iOS devices are developed by Apple and manufactured by Foxconn or another of Apple’s partners.

latest version of iOS  available is iOS 5.

To Know more about Apple iOS

Apple iOS wiki

3. Blackberry OS from RIM

Blackberry OS

Blackberry OS was designed for simplifying business. recently it is supporting the Multimedia applications.

Currently Blackberry’s App World has over 15,000 downloadable applications. RIM’s future strategy will focus on the newly acquired QNX, having already launched the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet running a version of QNX and expecting the first QNX smartphones in early 2012

To know more about Blackberry OS

Blackberry OS wiki

4. Symbian OS

Symbian OS

Symbian OS holds the largest share in world Mobile OS market but facing lot of opposition from other OS vendors.

It has been used by many major handset manufacturers, including BenQ, Fujitsu, LG, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sharp, and Sony Ericsson. Current Symbian-based devices are being made by Fujitsu, Nokia, Samsung, Sharp, and Sony Ericsson.

To know more about Symbian OS

Symbian OS wiki

5. Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7

Windows phone from the world’s famous software developer and vendor Microsoft.

The new mobile OS includes a completely new over-hauled UI inspired by Microsoft’s “Metro Design Language”. It includes full integration of Microsoft services such as Windows Live, Zune, Xbox Live and Bing, but also integrates with many other non-Microsoft services such as Facebook and Google accounts.

To know more about Windows Phone

Windows Phone wiki

Other platforms

Apart from the major Mobile Operating Systems mentioned above there are lot other Mobile OS were in use and some of them were almost historical .

Few other new platforms were expecting to be released.