Symbian Operating System A Short Introduction Lappeenranta University of Technology Department of Information Technology Lappeenranta, Finland Author: Alexander Kanavin Supervisors:Antti Sorvari (Nokia), Jan Voracek (LUT ) Lappeenranta, November 2003
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
Owners
Licensees
Key characteristics integrated multimode mobile telephony messaging open application environment standards and interoperability multi-tasking robustness flexible user interface design
Phones with numeric keypad Joystick-navigated Soft keys Simple widgets
Phones with touch screens Pen-based navigation Multimedia and browsing
Phones with full keyboards Editing information Reviewing business data
Writing applications SDK: emulator, libraries and target compiler Subset of C++ IDEs: Microsoft, Borland, Metrowerks Future: higher-level languages
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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