Android-Mobile Operating System

Good evening everyone and thank you for coming here. Let me introduce myself. My name is Sohaib
Jamil and I am an electrical Engineer working in Telenor Pakistan. The subject of my topic is Android
mobile operating systems.

As we all know the importance of communication today, the world is moving fast and people are more
eager to do their job done well before time. Mobile phones are used for a variety of purposes, including
keeping in touch with family, conducting business, and having access to a telephone in the event of an
emergency.

Today I’m going to talk about following three main areas

 What is mobile operating system and vendors?

 Comparison and market share.
 Android Vs Symbian

If you have any questions, I’ll be glad to answer them at the end of the presentation.

To start with, mobile operating systems we need to know what actually an operating system is , An OS is
a software, consisting of programs and data, that runs on mobiles and manages mobile hardware
resources and provides common services for efficient execution of various software.

Operating systems that can be found on smart phones include Nokia’s Symbian, Google’s Android,
Apple’s iOS, RIM’s Blackberry OS, Microsoft’s Windows Phone.

Next, we will be comparing these four operating systems with respect to their market share.

Symbian OS: The symbian platform from the Symbian foundation ( 36.6 % market share sales Q3 2010)
has the largest share in most markets worldwide, but lags behind other companies in the relatively small
but highly visible North American market, the operating system's worldwide market share has declined
from over 50% to just over 40% from 2009 to 2010.

Andriod from Google Inc. : ( 25.5% market share sales Q3 2010) (open source, Apache) Android was
developed by a small startup company that was purchased by Google and Google continues to update
the software. Android is an open source, Linux-derived platform backed by Google, along with major
hardware and software developers. There have been six releases of Android- Android 1.0, 1.5, 1.6, 2.0,
2.1 and 2.2. All are nicknamed after a dessert item like Cupcake (1.5) or Frozen Yogurt (2.2). Most major
mobile service providers carry an Android device.
Since the HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1) was introduced, there has been an explosion in the number of
devices that carry Android OS. From Q2 of 2009 to the second quarter of 2010, Android's worldwide
market share rose 850% from 1.8% to 17.2%.

iOS from Apple Inc: (16.7% Market Share Sales Q3 2010) (closed source, proprietary).The Apple iPhone,
iPod Touch and iPad all use an operating system called iOS, which is derived from Mac OS X. Third party
applications were not officially supported until the release of iOS 2.0 on July 11th 2008.
RIM BlackBerry OS: (14.8% Market Share Sales Q3 2010 (closed source, proprietary)This OS is focused
on easy operation and was originally designed for business. Recently it has seen a surge in third-party
applications and has been improved to offer full multimedia support. Currently Blackberry's App World
has over 15,000 downloadable applications.

Windows Phone from Microsoft: (negligible Market Share Sales in October 2010)(closed source,
proprietary).On February 15th, 2010 Microsoft unveiled its next-generation mobile OS, Windows Phone
7. The new mobile OS includes a completely new over-hauled UI inspired by Microsoft's "Metro Design
Language". It includes full integration of Microsoft services such as Windows Live, Zune, Xbox Live and
Bing, but also integrates with many other non-Microsoft services such as Facebook and Google
accounts. The new OS platform has received some positive reception from the technology press. As
To illustrate this point, have a look at this chart

Above chart show the Shares of 2010 Q3 smartphone sales to end users by operating system, according
to Gartner

So you can see that Android is taking the interest of mobile users.

Lastly, let’s discuss some of the main features of Android and Symbion which currently are widely used
and liked by mobile users.

Open / Close OS :

In the competition going on in the mobile platforms of Open Source, developers preferably have two
major choices: Android and Symbian. It has an integrated browser that in based on WebKit engine of
open source. The former is an open source but with a closed development (relatively). Symbian is out
and out an open source, once it comes around the corner, to release its full source code.

Feature / Tools Exclusive to OS:

Android’s bunch of features includes Application Framework that allows users to reuse components,
Optimized graphics for full 2D and 3D support. With media support for video, still images, common
audio, and other complicated formats, its multimedia performance is also very high. It sports features
like accelerometer, compass and GPS. Android does have a very poor support for Web games, which
makes it quite unusable for playing online.

Symbian, on the other hand supports C++ programming effectively. It is because of its high Java support,
that gaming has its ultimate experience here. More for online games, that takes time to buffer and run
on other mobile, this one has smooth running as a PC. With its wide compatibility with device, it is also a
good choice, especially for gamers. But, Symbian OS is not equally good in terms of downloading
gaming. Nonetheless, in all the other aspects it is quite competent.

Usability :

Depending on the user’s choice, both are easy to operate with non-complex interface. Users can use
either of them depending on their need.

Telco Network:

Android has made its handsets a Wi-Fi hotspot. With a support to wireless Internet, this operating
system can run Web on your handset even when you do not have a network connection in your phone.
You can simply get a wireless connection from some other device to serve the purpose.

Symbian does not have an integrated network accelerator, for smoother and clearer video calling, but
you can download one and use to speed up the connection for uninterrupted networking.

Handset/ hardware differences:

The hardware interface of Android includes an autofocus camera, callback on camera error, etc. and
interface for supplying image data from captured picture, delivering copies of preview, geomagnetic
field, sensor and other exciting features that facilitate the usage.

Handsets like Nokia N8, powered by Symbian OS have been reported with issues with opening large web
pages.

Internet and Email

Android 2.0 now includes the Firefox Mobile Web Browser, which provides faster and stable browsing
experience. Symbian browser can download only one file at one time, however there is now support for
multi window browsing though the Symbian web browser.

Applications

with Android operating system, the users can access thousands of applications, which is essential for the
smart phones. Being an open source platform with relatively closed development, Android offers several
applications. However, being an out-n-out open source OS Symbian offers huge range of third party
apps.

Multimedia

Both Android and Symbian based mobile phones support good multimedia features. The media players
can play diverse music and video files, while there are high mega pixel cameras as well. However, the
images appear better on the Android based touch screen phones.

I hope this presentation has given you some useful information about different operating systems
their market shares their usage and at the end of my presentation I also told you about the difference
between Android and Symbion.

In conclusion Android is much advanced and provides more value to the end users. Symbian needs
updates its features.

Now, if anyone has any questions, I’d be b pleased to answer them. Thank you.