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    Lappeenranta University of Technology Department of Information Technology Lappeenranta, Finland

    Symbian Operating System


    A Short Introduction
    Author:
    Supervisors:

    Alexander Kanavin
    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

    Questions?

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