1. Symbian OS 1

2.  Symbian  Symbian OS is an operating system and software platform that designed for smart phones and maintained by Nokia.  Symbian platform includes a user interface based on S60.  Symbian OS originally developed to runs exclusively on ARM processors.  Purpose:  To be an operating system for the smart phones that support a lot of features and applications 2

3.  Symbian OS was developed by symbian LTD,that sold it to nokia company in December 2008.  The first announced of symbian was in June 2008 and which officially launched in April 2009 3

4.  Symbian has released a series of so in the following style symbian^1, symbian^2,…  Symbian^1 was the first release of the symbian OS and it was support the basic platform for the smart phones.  Symbian^2 was the first royalty-free version of Symbian  Symbian^3 released in feb-2010 and designed to be the next generation smart phones platform, winch support a lot of new features like the 2D and 3D graphic architectures,also its support the HDMI “external displays”. Its released in sep-2010. The first use of Symbian^3 was over 4 nokia smart phoned models “N8,C6-01,E7-00,C7-00”.  Symbian^4 expected to be released in the first half of 2011 but nokia announced that symbian^4 will not be released, however the needed improvement will be like an updated for the Symbian^3 4

5. We will take a three side features and have some details over them  User interface  Browser  Applications and developments 5

6.  Till the symbian^3, symbian was use S60 User Interface that designed to be manipulated by a keyboard-like interface.  Symbian^3 includes the Qt framework, which is now the recommended user interface toolkit for new applications. Qt can also be installed on older Symbian devices.  A new Graphical User Interface was suggested to be used by the symbian^4 that support a special features for the touch based interface. 6

7.  browser  Symbian was the first Smartphone's platform that support webkit but earlier the sybmian^3 has more new webkits witch QT- based browser  Applications and development  Can use a lot of development environments like python for S60 and adobe Flash, Java me, Flash Lite, Ruby,.NET, Web Runtime (WRT) …. 7

8.  We will take one of the symbian OS version and have some feature of it “Symbian^3”  Support multi-touch input.  More than one home screen.  All of the wifi versions B,G,N.  USB on-the-go.  FM radio  Adobe flash  ARM CPU architecture  The main files operation “Copy, Cut, Paste”.  Special web-kit browser.  POP3,IMAP Email sync protocols.  Multitasking.  Bluetooth, skype, facebook,….  Support Text document, Audio, Video, Video- conference front video camera. 8

9.  As we know now the Smartphone's become almost similar in features and its use a different OS types,  We will talk some about the N8, I-phone 4.  We will compare the features of the following” screen, camera, features and applications 9

10. SYMPIAN^3 THAT’S USED IN N8 I PHONE OS THAT USED IN PHONE 4  Screen: N8 use 360 x 640 pixels 3.5-inch touch screen.  Camera: use powerful 12-megapixel camera and Xenon Flash  Application: along time there is a lot of application but its still few and slower to be compared with the I phone  Features/Quirks The Nokia N8 features an HDMI port and Dolby Digital Plus surround stereo, Xenon Flash, 12 megapixel camera, Ovi Services, 48GB of storage with a micro SD card, 720p video and it comes in multiple colors.  Screen : use 640 x 960 pixel display, is the same size as the Nokia N8’s  Camera: only use 5-megapixels camera  Applications : on the iPhone are far superior than those found on both Android, RIM, Windows and Symbian  Features: The iPhone however pack in Retina Display technology, applications, glass casing, three-axis gyro sensor, 326ppi display, games, apps folders, 64GB of storage and the impressive, power- saving, Apple A4 Processor 10

11.  Statistics published for the second quarter of 2010 showed that Symbian devices comprised a 41.2% share of smart mobile devices sold, with RIM having 18.2%, Android having 17.2%, and Apple having 15.1% (through iPhone OS)  Previous reports on device shipments as published in February 2010 showed that the Symbian devices comprised a 47.2% share of the smart mobile devices shipped in 2009, with RIM having 20.8%, Apple having 15.1% (through iPhone OS) 11

12.  As nokia announced that it will make the needed improvements like updates for the symbian^3 and it will not release the symbian^4 till now  As we said b4 it’s the symbian^4 Witch will support the touch-based interface with more functionality, but Nokia it would be migrate the symbian to windows phone 7 12

13.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian  http://blog.symbian.org/2010/12/17/symbian-foundation- is-completing-its-transition-to-a-licensing-body/ http://blog.symbian.org/2010/12/17/symbian-foundation- is-completing-its-transition-to-a-licensing-body/  http://www.knowyourmobile.com/comparisons/512357/no kia_n8_vs_iphone_4.html http://www.knowyourmobile.com/comparisons/512357/no kia_n8_vs_iphone_4.html  http://www.knowyourmobile.com/comparisons/512358/no kia_n8_vs_iphone_4.html http://www.knowyourmobile.com/comparisons/512358/no kia_n8_vs_iphone_4.html 13