All about smartphones and their

1. SMARTPHONES
By: Nathan Sterling

2. Invention of Smartphones
• A smartphone is a mobile phone built on a mobile
operating system, with more advanced computing
capability connectivity than a feature phone.
• Later additions:
• Portable media players
• Compact digital cameras
• Pocket video cameras
• GPS navigation units
• Touchscreens
• Web browsers
• Wi-Fi accessible
• App markets

3. Invention of Smartphones
• Although devices combining telephony and computing were
conceptualized as early as 1973 and were offered for sale beginning
in 1994, the term "smartphone" did not appear until 1997, when
Ericsson described its GS 88 "Penelope" concept as a "Smart
Phone".
• The first cellular phone to incorporate PDA features was an IBM
prototype developed in 1992 and demonstrated that year at the
COMDEX computer industry trade show. A refined version of the
product was marketed to consumers on 16 August 1994 by BellSouth
under the name Simon Personal Communicator. The Simon was the
first device that can be properly referred to as a "smartphone“. In
addition to its ability to make and receive cellular phone calls, Simon
was also able to send and receive facsimiles, e-mails and pages
through its touch screen display. Simon included many applications
including an address book, calendar, appointment scheduler,
calculator, world time clock, games, electronic note pad, handwritten
annotations and standard and predictive touchscreen keyboards.
• Picture of Simon on previous slide

4. Smartphone Operating Systems
• Symbian
• Blackberry
• Android
• iOS
• Windows Phone
• Palm OS
• Bada

5. • Symbian originated from EPOC, an operating system
created by Psion in the 1980s. In June 1998, Psion
Software became Symbian Ltd., a major joint venture
between Psion and phone manufacturers:
• Ericsson
• Motorola
• Nokia
• Afterwards, different software platforms were created for
Symbian, backed by different groups of mobile phone
manufacturers:
• S60 (Nokia, Samsung and LG) >>
• UIQ (Sony Ericsson and Motorola)
• MOAP(S) (Japanese only such as Fujitsu, Sharp etc.).

6. • The first BlackBerry device, the 850, was introduced in
1999 as a two-way pager in Munich, Germany. The name
BlackBerry was coined by the marketing company
Lexicon Branding.
• In 2003, the more commonly known smartphone
BlackBerry was released, which supports:
• Push email
• Mobile telephone
• Text messaging
• Internet faxing
• Web browsing

7. Android: Operating System
• Android, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California in
October 2003.
• Google acquired Android Inc. on August 17, 2005, making
it a wholly owned subsidiary of Google.
• Android's user interface is based on direct manipulation,
using touch inputs that loosely correspond to real-world
actions, like swiping, tapping, pinching and reverse
pinching to manipulate on-screen objects.
• Android has a growing selection of third party
applications, which can be acquired by users either
through an app store such as Google Play or the
Amazon Appstore.

8. • The operating system was unveiled with
the iPhone at the Macworld Conference
& Expo, January 9, 2007, and released
in June of that year.
• In June 2010, Apple rebranded iPhone
OS as "iOS".
• The trademark "IOS" had been used by Cisco
for over a decade for its operating system,
IOS, used on its routers.
• The home screen displays application
icons and a dock at the bottom of the
screen where users can pin their most
frequently used apps. >>

9. • Work on a major Windows Mobile update
may have begun as early as 2004 under the
codename "Photon", but work moved slowly
and the project was ultimately cancelled.
• In 2008, Microsoft reorganized the Windows
Mobile group and started work on a new
mobile operating system.
• Windows Phone features a user interface
based on Microsoft's Windows Phone design
system, codenamed Metro, and was inspired
by the user interface in the Zune HD.
• The home screen, called the "Start screen", is
made up of "Live Tiles", which have been the
inspiration for the Windows 8 live tiles.

10. Palm OS
• Palm OS was originally developed under the direction of
Jeff Hawkins at Palm Computing, Inc.
• Palm OS is a proprietary mobile operating system.
Designed in 1996 for Palm Computing, Inc.'s new Pilot
PDA, it has been implemented on a wide array of mobile
devices, including smartphones, wrist watches, handheld
gaming consoles, barcode readers and GPS devices.
• Applications

11. • After the announcement, the Wave S8500 was
first shown at Mobile World Congress 2010 in
Barcelona in February 2010.
• At that time, applications running on the first Bada
phone were demonstrated, including Gameloft's
Asphalt 5.
• After the launch, companies such as Twitter, EA,
Capcom, Gameloft and Blockbuster showed their
support for the Bada platform.
• Bada, as Samsung defines it, is not an operating
system itself, but a platform with a kernel
configurable architecture, which allows using
either a proprietary real-time operating system
hybrid (RTOS) kernel or the Linux kernel.

12. App Stores
• Apple's App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch launched in
July 2008, popularized manufacturer-hosted online distribution
for third-party applications focused on a single platform.
• Following the success of Apple's App Store other smartphone
manufacturers quickly launched application stores of their own.
• Google launched the Android Market in October 2008.
Store 2009 (millions U.S.) 2010 (millions U.S.)
Apple App Store $769 $1782
Blackberry App World $36 $165
Nokia Ovi Store $13 $105
Google Play $11 $102
Total $828 $2155