BlackBerry OS is a proprietary mobile operating system, developed by Research In Motion for its BlackBerry line of smartphone handheld devices. The operating system provides multitasking and supports specialized input devices that have been adopted by RIM for use in its handhelds, particularly the trackwheel, trackball, and most recently, the trackpad and touchscreen. The BlackBerry
Windows Phone 7 (previously Windows Phone 7 Series) is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to its Windows Mobile platform. Unlike its predecessor, it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market. Windows Phone 7 was launched in Europe, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand on October
webOS is a proprietary mobile operating system running on the Linux kernel, initially developed by Palm, which was later acquired by HP. Palm, HP, and most commentators and sources utilize the style “webOS”, as shown in the adjacent logo, and in HP resources, rather than “WebOS”. webOS was introduced by Palm in January 2009 as
Bada is a mobile operating system being developed by Samsung Electronics for use on mobile phones, ranging from low-end feature phones to high-end smartphones. The name ‘Bada’ is derived from the Korean word for ‘ocean’ or ‘sea’. Samsung claims that Bada will rapidly replace its proprietary feature phone platform, effectively converting feature phones to smartphones.
Maemo is a software platform developed by the Maemo community for smartphones and Internet tablets. It is “based” on the Debian Linux distribution, but has no relation with it, especially for what concern open source. The platform comprises the Maemo operating system and the Maemo SDK. It is not open source, though it contains some.
MeeGo is a Linux-based open source mobile operating system project. Primarily targeted at mobile devices and information appliances in the consumer electronics market, MeeGo is designed to act as an operating system for hardware platforms such as netbooks, entry-level desktops, nettops, tablet computers, mobile computing and communications devices, in-vehicle infotainment devices, SmartTV / ConnectedTV, IPTV-boxes,
Brew (Brew MP, Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) is an application development platform created by Qualcomm, originally for CDMA mobile phones, featuring third party applications such as mobile games. It is offered in some feature phones but not in smart phones. It debuted in September 2001. As a software platform that can download and run
Symbian is a mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for smartphones and currently maintained by Nokia. The Symbian platform is the successor to Symbian OS and Nokia Series 60; unlike Symbian OS, which needed an additional user interface system, Symbian includes a user interface component based on S60 5th Edition. The latest version,