Sunday, June 17, 2012

Mobile Phone Operating Systems in Indian market

 In Indian market,we can see large collection of mobile handsets. Most of the handsets are from larger players like Nokia , Sony   Ericsson,Samsung , Motorola ,Philips,Apple like companies .All these mobile phones are controlled by a software built inside it.We can call it as mobile phone Operating system.Different companies use different OS for their handsets.But in common the OS should satisfy some primary needs like call management,contacts management,multimedia support for higher mobiles,camera management etc.The use and functions may vary for different mobile handsets,but a particular OS will be built in a common platform.

Here we can have a look at various mobile OSs available in Indian market.Some of them are very popular and some are not that much recognized in India.

Android Operating System:Popular OS in Indian market.Availability of large number of free applications are the main attraction of this OS.Companies like Motorolla,samsung,Sony,Huawei,HTC use this OS in some of their Mobile devices.

Symbian OS:It is another widely used OS in Indian market.The reason behind its popularity is that it is used in Nokia phones.Nokia holds major portion of Indian mobile market.Nokia,Samsung,Sony Ericsson such companies use Symbian OS in some of their devices.

Windows Phone:This is the OS developed by computer OS giant Microsoft.This OS mainly targets Smartphones and tablets.Companies like Dell,HTC,Nokia,Samsung use this OS in some of their devices.

iOS: This is the Operating System developed by Apple for their devices like iPod,iPad,iPhone etc.External applications were not allowed till last update.But newer version contains provisions for using third party applications.The main user is Apple itself.

Bada OS:Samsung developed this OS for their Smartphones.Samsung Wave series use this OS.It has an icon driven interface which enables it to create a user friendly and easy to use atmosphere.

  There are other mobile operating systems like Blackberry ,Brew,SHR,but are not that much popular in Indian market.Some of them are restricted to some devices only.The secret behind the success of popular OSs are the availability of large number of free applications, ease of creating an application and cheap OS rate.After the introduction of Smartphones in Indian market,new and new OSs are being introduced which enables greater user experience.Hope all these leads to the benefits of ultimate end user.

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