Symbian Operating System

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Symbian Operating System
Lappeenranta University of TechnologyDepartment
of Information TechnologyLappeenranta, Finland 

• A Short Introduction

Author Alexander Kanavin Supervisors Antti
Sorvari (Nokia), Jan Voracek (LUT)
Lappeenranta, November 2003
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Main facts

• Designed to be used on higher-end mobile phones
  (also known as smartphones)
• Open application environment
• Owned and licensed by most major phone makers

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Owners
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Licensees
 
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Key characteristics

• integrated multimode mobile telephony
• messaging
• open application environment
• standards and interoperability
• multi-tasking
• robustness
• flexible user interface design

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Phones with numeric keypad

• Joystick-navigated
• Soft keys
• Simple widgets

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Phones with touch screens

• Pen-based navigation
• Multimedia and browsing

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Phones with full keyboards

• Editing information
• Reviewing business data

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Writing applications

• SDK emulator, libraries and target compiler
• Subset of C
• IDEs Microsoft, Borland, Metrowerks
• Future higher-level languages

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Writing applications personal experience

• C
• Full IDE services debugging etc
• Difficulty of testing on real devices
• Fast applications, small memory footprint

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Questions?