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•History

•Characteristics

•Advantages/ Disadvantages

•Popularity

HISTORYHISTORY

• 1980: Psion founded by David Potter.

• 1987: Psion begins development of its “SIBO”.

• 1989: First EPOC16 devices ship with a primarily 1-bit, keyboard-operated graphical interface.

• 1990: Was founded PDA.

• 1996: EPOC32 was created.

1998: In June Psion Software became Symbian.

2001 : - The first 'open' Symbian OS phone, the Nokia 9210 Communicator, was released in June . -Symbian OS became version 6 and 6.1.

2003: Shipment of Symbian OS 7.0 and 7.0s.

2009: Becoming an “open source”.

CHARACTERISTICSCHARACTERISTICS• Integrated multimode mobile

telephony

• Open application environment

• Open standards and interoperability

• Multi-tasking

• Fully Object-oriented and component based

• Flexible user interface design

ADVANTAGES & ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGESDISADVANTAGES

Advantages:Advantages:

• Boots in seconds

• Optimum memory management performance

• Reduced power consumption

• APIs are publicly documented and anyone can develop software for Symbian OS

• Offering extensive customization options and supporting global technology standards

• 3G and HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access)

• High resolution support

• Unlocking youth market demands

• Seamless connectivity for music and pictures

Disadvantage:

• No virtual memory

POPULARITYPOPULARITY