Mobile Operating Systems

History[edit]

                                    

Mobile operating system milestones mirror the development of mobile phones and smartphones:

• 1979–1992 Mobile phones use embedded systems to control operation.
• 1993 The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, has a touchscreen, email and PDA features.
• 1996 Palm Pilot 1000 personal digital assistant is introduced with the Palm OSmobile operating system.
• 1996 First Windows CE Handheld PC devices are introduced.
• 1999 Nokia S40 OS is officially introduced along with the Nokia 7110
• 2000 Symbian becomes the first modern mobile OS on a smartphone with the launch of the Ericsson R380.
• 2001 The Kyocera 6035 is the first smartphone with Palm OS.
• 2002 Microsoft's first Windows CE (Pocket PC) smartphones are introduced.
• 2002 BlackBerry releases its first smartphone.
• 2005 Nokia introduces Maemo OS on the first internet tablet N770.
• 2007 Apple iPhone with iOS is introduced as an iPhone, "mobile phone" and "internet communicator."^[2]
• 2007 Open Handset Alliance (OHA) formed by Google, HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel,Motorola, Samsung, LG, etc.^[3]
• 2008 OHA releases Android 1.0 with theHTC Dream (T-Mobile G1) as the firstAndroid phone.
• 2009 Palm introduces webOS with thePalm Pre. By 2012 webOS devices were no longer sold.
• 2009 Samsung announces the Bada OS with the introduction of the Samsung S8500.
• 2010 Windows Phone OS phones are released but are not compatible with the previous Windows Mobile OS.
• 2011 MeeGo the first mobile Linux, combining Maemo and Moblin, is introduced with the Nokia N9, a collaboration of Nokia, Intel and Linux Foundation
• In September 2011 Samsung, Intel and the Linux Foundation announced that their efforts will shift from Bada, MeeGo toTizen during 2011 and 2012.
• In October 2011 the Mer project was announced, centered around an ultra-portable Linux + HTML5/QML/JavaScriptCore for building products with, derived from the MeeGo codebase.
• 2012 Mozilla announced in July 2012 that the project previously known as "Boot to Gecko" was now Firefox OS and had several handset OEMs on board.
• 2013 Canonical announced Ubuntu Touch, a version of the Linux distribution expressly designed for smartphones. The OS is built on the Android Linux kernel, using Android drivers, but does not use any of the Java-like code of Android.^[4]
• 2013 BlackBerry released their new operating system for smartphones and tablets, BlackBerry 10.
• 2014 Microsoft release Windows Phone 8.1 in February 2014.