1. 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

2. 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

3. Owners

4. Licensees

5. Key characteristics integrated multimode mobile telephony messaging open application environment standards and interoperability multi-tasking robustness flexible user interface design

6. Phones with numeric keypad Joystick-navigated Soft keys Simple widgets

7. Phones with touch screens Pen-based navigation Multimedia and browsing

8. Phones with full keyboards Editing information Reviewing business data

9. Writing applications SDK: emulator, libraries and target compiler Subset of C++ IDEs: Microsoft, Borland, Metrowerks Future: higher-level languages

10. Writing applications: personal experience C++ Full IDE services: debugging etc Difficulty of testing on real devices Fast applications, small memory footprint

11. Questions?