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INTRODUCTION
• a proprietary operating system,
designed for mobile devices, with
associated libraries, user interface
frameworks and reference
implementations of common tools
• produced by Symbian Pvt Ltd.
• currently owned by Nokia ,Sony
Ericsson, Panasonic, Siemens AG and
Samsung
• a descendant of Psion’s EPOC
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More …
• Market leader with a 70% share
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• Applications are object oriented
• Restricted memory
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Symbian OS
Architecture
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Symbian Hardware
Architecture
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Hardware
Platform
• From the hardware perspective, the core is
a system on-chip package that will contain
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• UIQ : a customizable pen-based user
interface platform for media-rich
mobile phones based on Symbian OS.
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History
• EPOC16 OS
• EPOC32 OS Symbian OS(1998)
• Symbian v5.1:
The first phone Ericsson R380 in
2000
• Symbian OS v6.0 and v6.1
Nokia 9210 using v6.0
• Symbian OS v7.0 and v7.0s2003
UIQ(S E P800,P900,p910,Motorola
A925,A1000),S80(Nokia9300,9500),S90(Nokia771
0),S60(Nokia6600,7310),FOMA phones.
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• Symbian OS v8.02004
• Symbian v9.0
• Symbian v9.12005
S60 3rd edition phones ,S E M600i,P990
• Symbian v9.2 first quarter of 2006
• Symbian v9.3July 2006
• Symbian v9.5March 2007
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About Symbian v9.5
• Memory management:
flash and expansion card
memory ,kernel runs with its own
address space
• File management:
file server provides
access. The drive ,directory and file
hierarchy is VFAT. File manager for
file handling application. Provides
local file systems (RAM, ROM and
removable media)
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Main diagram of
Symbian v9.5
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Details…
• base
• security
• graphics
• application framework
• application engines
• multimedia
• application services
• application protocols
• communication infrastructure
infrared, bluetooth ,networking
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• telephony
• messaging
• WAP stack
• WAP browser
• MIDP (Mobile Information Device Profile)
• Java
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Development Kits
• Symbian OS Customization Kit (CustKit)
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User’s of
•
Symbian OS
Ericsson R380 (2000) was the first
commercially available phone based on
Symbian OS. As with the modern "FOMA" phones,
this device was closed, and the user could
not install new C++ applications. Unlike
those, however, the R380 could not even run
Java applications.
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SE W960,v9.1,UIQ
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Nokia N81
8GB,v9.2,S60
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Nokia
N95,v9.2,S60
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Nokia 5700
XpressMusic
Nokia
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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 as
well as languages from 99% of the world’s
countries
• 3G and HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet
Access)
• Seamless multitasking for uninterrupted VoIP
,push email
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Issues …
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Future …
• super 3G
• WiMax and 4G
• all IP wireless broadband and bearer
mobility
• Ultra high resolution color displays
• Rich multimedia enablers (for creation
,consumption, communication)
• High speed, low-latency real-time
networking
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• Large memories and persistent storage
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Summary
• It has support for all the leading industry
standards that will be essential for the
current and forthcoming generations of data
enabled mobile phones.
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