SYMBIAN

GeekSpeak @ MCDMUniversity of Washington, July 2010

• an open source mobile operating system (from February 2010)

• C++ and Java

• the Symbian FoundationNokia, Fujitsu, Samsung, Sony Ericsson,

AT&T Mobility, NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Qualcomm...

History

1980Psion

1998Symbian OS

20001st phoneEricsson R380

2008Nokia acquiresSymbian

Features

• Priority to security of data

• Minimal response time

• Power efficient

• Multitasking

• Hybrid applications(web + native)

Multiple languages platformfor developers

Multi Language

Security

2004 – the 1st virus

Name:EPOC.cabir & Symbian/Cabir

Ways: Bluetooth

Mobile OS, regions

Mobile Data Usage

First & Last

Learning Cost

Effort for 9 simple apps

References

• The Symbian Foundation Community Home - www.symbian.org• Symbian - Wikipedia• Introducing the Release Plan - The Symbian Blog• RafeB (February 22, 2009) . SANY0312 [Picture] -

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rafeblandford/3299457517/• Caribe (computer worm) – Wikipedia• http://www.glowfoto.com/getcode.php?srv=img4&img=07-121531L&t=gif&rand=5811&m=05&y=

2007• Gibbs, C. (Jan. 21, 2010). Symbian’s Dominance Erodes in Emerging Markets vs. the

iPhone: AdMob [Blog]. http://gigaom.com/2010/01/21/symbians-dominance-erodes-in-emerging-markets-vs-the-iphone-admob/

• Shah, N. (February 14, 2010). Smartphones War Part II: Smartphone OS the differentiating factor [Blog]. http://shahneil.com/2010/02/part-ii-smartphones-war-smartphone-os-differentiating-factor/

• VisionMobile. (July 2010). Mobile Developer Economics 2010 Report. http://www.slideshare.net/zahidtg/mobile-developer-economics-2010-report

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