INTRODUCTION
Over the past decade, smartphones have taken the world by storm and recently, tablets have entered into the arena as well. These mobile devices are having a significant impact on our lives and are in fact redefining the way we access information and communicate with others. This is due to not only the hardware but the specialized software that these devices run and most importantly, their operating systems.
Just like a PC can run different operating systems (like Windows, Linux, BSD etc.) or different versions of the same operating system (like Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 etc.), most smartphones can also run different versions of the operating system they were made for and in exceptional cases, they might even be
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Windows Phone 7 Windows Mobile is Microsoft 's mobile operating system used in smartphones and mobile devices with or without touchscreens. The Mobile OS is based on the Windows CE 5.2 kernel. In 2010 Microsoft announced a new smartphone platform called Windows Phone 7. It replaced the dated and obsolete Windows
Mobile series of OSes. WP7 delivers a fresh approach with improved social media integration and a new tile styled UI called Metro. Pros Cons
• Integrated and merged social media abilities
• Excellent home screen status
• Built in support for Windows Office documents
• Works with Xbox Live multi-player gaming
• Multi-tasking
• Excellent development tools, with free
Founded in 1975 by Paul Allen and Bill Gates, Microsoft is a dominant force in the personal computer operating market, such as it’s latest flagship product, Windows 10. To expand business, Microsoft created ventures in multiple alternate markets, including that of the personal mobile device market, through purchasing assets of the former mobile phone company “Nokia”. In November 2015, Microsoft released the “Lumia 950”, a 5.2 inch-screen smartphone operating a mobile form of Microsoft’s operating system “Windows”.
XiaoMi is a smartphone company which is a rage in China: its Mi branded its handsets which sports a highly and customized in which the Android deployment (called MIUI), which are linked to a range of cloud services provided on top of the handset, as they have their own market (as opposed to Google’s play store), and have around 200,000 pieces of content, including customized themes (similar to Go Launcher). The MI2 handset is priced at RMB 1999. It is the most intuitive and usable
In recent years smartphones have become increasingly popular with “roughly three-quarters of Americans (77%) now own a smartphone.”However, until a decade ago our modern-day smartphones came out, with the first being the iPhone. Due to its popularity, Google created the android system, released in the G1 smartphone a year later. Accordingly, with their advance technology, additional features, and affordability more consumers started buying Smartphones, resulting in full range audience, from children to elderly. Although other types of smartphones have been created, such as Blackberry’s and Window’s phones, none have been successful like the androids and iPhones. Even though androids and iPhones have obvious differences, they are more similar through their accessories, performances, and displays. (Smith, A)
The phone runs on a modified version of Android Marshmallow that called as MIUI 7 which is quite similar used in MI 5 earlier. And this phone can be upgradeable to MIUI 8 in coming months.
There are a number of different operating systems out there, but the best of them and the ones that you should be considering when buying your new smartphone are Google's Android, Microsoft's Windows Phone, and Apple's IOS. These 3 are the heavy weight champions on the market, and no matter which one of them you choose you're ensured to have a great operating system that will make your smartphone run perfectly, not crashing whenever you enter a game or when you watch a video on the internet.
Nowadays, smartphones have been an irreplaceable and indispensable part of people’s daily life. What makes the smartphones so “smart” is the OS, in other words, the operation system. The OS is the basic and soul of a smartphone, which means if the phone is the body, then the OS is the neural network and intellectual system to control the body. Among diverse operation systems, Apple’s IOS and Android OS are the most outstanding, they have occupied about 96 percent of the whole global smartphone market together. They are both widely used and liked by individuals but they also have own advantages and disadvantages.
In today’s era smartphone plays vital role and affect our lives enormously. Mobile phones were invented to answer long distance calls and at the same time its portability doesn’t bound the user to one place. The basic functions of any smartphone and a mobile phone is to answer calls and it can be used to send text messages. However, what makes smartphones different from a regular mobile phone is its capability of providing interface between extra functions or apps for its users. For example; todays smartphones can help user find directions that is by using GPS, it also helps users to operate their bank accounts without having them to go to bank and many more.
Mobile phones have come a long way - to think, at one point in time it was used to call. Fast-forward to modern day, where we are logging online and accessing platforms that traditionally were only available on desktops.
Microsoft’s Windows mobile was very popular due to its compatibility with Microsoft office, but it soon received many complaints about windows mobile due to its non user friendly experience and weak support for graphics oriented applications. Their unattractive design and slow platform detracted consumers from their products and allowed for other competitors to really shine.
By then, Microsoft can’t abandon its old business organizing method, not thinking about to develop one unique operating system which is specific for smartphone. Actually if Microsoft can create one new mobile operating system to suit its Windows Mobile at that time, and taking advantage of its great power on operating system, it will be easy for Microsoft to capture the first-mover position. It’s a pity that Microsoft presented this priceless opportunity to Apple, After Windows Mobile, Apple launched iPhone equipped by unique iOS operating system and made great success. A company which is strong at operating system finally lost the opportunity on mobile because of its operating system. Ironically, five years later after iOS launched, Microsoft finally launches its specific smartphone operating system. But it is too late.
We have a long proven record of building apps for windows mobile platforms. Even while the Windows 7 Operating System was not released, our developers had built failsafe mobile apps on this interface, which helped us earn a unique distinctiveness in the related industry.
More and more applications that were used in the PC and laptop began to be used with the mobile. It was with the availability of internet with the mobile that made companies like Nokia look for platforms to deliver the service- including surfing and connecting to social media that prompted developers to begin developing programs for this segment. It was also this development that made Microsoft consider going into the mobile sector since the company had already established itself in the tablet segment.
As the concept of mobile computing is on the rise. It has led to the new personal computing platform called Smartphone devices. According to (Reddi & Yuhao, 2017), there are more than three billion web-connected mobile devices and by 2020, there will be 50 billion of such devices. Increasing number of mobiles devices are connected to the internet every day and the mobile web traffic is gradually exceeding the desktop web traffic. The future of computing will soon transition into mobile computing leaving behind the traditional computing.
optimizes. Many mobile operating systems can be seen in the market but two famous mobile
Over the past decade, smartphones have taken the world by storm and recently, tablets have entered into the arena as well. These mobile devices are having a significant impact on our lives and are in fact redefining the way we access information and communicate with others. This is due to not only the hardware but the specialized software that these devices run and most importantly, their operating systems. In what follows, we will take an informative tour of modern mobile operating systems, their different types and usage across smartphone and tablet platforms.