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What is a Smartphone?
What exactly is a Smartphone? Well, there are seven Smartphone operating systems supported by various manufacturers. If any handset runs on one of these systems, it is classed as a Smartphone. Smartphones are also known for having lots of features and apps, and being able to run them simultaneously.
These are the seven operating systems.
- Android
- Symbian
- iOS
- BlackBerry OS
- Bada
- Windows Mobile
- Web OS
Android released in 2008, and is now one of the biggest operating systems available. Supported by Google along with manufacturers such as HTC, Intel, Motorola, Samsung and others, Android is available on several handsets.
Maintained by Nokia, Symbian OS remains one of the favourite systems, and has a strong stakehold on the Smartphone market.
Designed by Apple originally for the iPhone, this multi-touch based system has since been rolled out on the iPod touch, Apple TV and iPad.
Developed by Research In Motion (RIM) for its BlackBerry handsets. BlackBerry OS provides multi tasking capabilities, and is well known for the Trackwheel, Trackball & Trackpad navigation methods.
Bada is one of the smaller and newest operating systems designed by Samsung. Samsung claim that Bada will rapidly be included on the feature phones, effectively turning them all into Smartphones.
The current version, Windows Phone 7, was designed to mirror the Windows 7 platform for PC. Used by many manufacturers, and recently partnering with Nokia, Microsoft are hoping to get a bigger stake in the market.
Created by Palm and introduced in January 2009, Web OS has since been taken over by HP. It was one of the first operating systems to widely use over-the-air software updates for all devices.
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