Thursday, July 26, 2012

Symbian OS mobile phones in India

 Symbian Operating System is one of the main operating system used in Indian mobile market.It was developed by Symbian Ltd.Later Nokia purchased that company.Now it is widely used in Nokia mobiles.The Operating system is now open sourced.The OS is mainly developed to deliver high performance  at low battery consumption.It is a multitasking OS and all applications are designed for parallel execution.

Major advantages of the Symbian OS

  • High performance
  • Low battery consumption
  • Open source
  • Multitasking and parallel execution
  • Optimized memory management

  When compared to Android OS,battery life is more in Symbian mobile phones.But online applications are more in Android OS.Even though both support games,Symbian has high Java support .So Symbian shows high game performance.But the number of downloadable games are less in Symbian compared to Android.Both Operating systems are fighting each other in terms of performance and usability.Price of Symbian mobiles are a little bit higher than Android which makes Android in a better position over Symbian OS in Indian market.

Major Symbian handsets in Indian market

Monday, June 18, 2012

Android Operating System in Indian Mobile Market


 It is one of the popular OS in the mobile world.Android Operating System is completely based on Open source software Linux.It is developed by an alliance of major software and electronics manufactures which is led by Internet giant Google.The main attraction of this platform is that it is open to application developers which resulted a boom in mobile phone application development for this OS.A giant collection of useful tools for Android OS exists in Handset world which are almost free and easy to use.Android mobiles are available in Indian market at cheap rate compared to other mobiles having similar functions. This operating system mainly target Smartphones and tablets.But its possibilities can be used in notebooks and Laptops also.Companies like Motorolla,Samsung,HTC, Huawei,Sony use this OS for their smartphones.

Advantages of android OS over other OSs

  • It is Economical: Android Smartphones are having lower prices compared to other OS phones having same features
  • Easy Applications Development platform:Mobile Application developers find it easy and convenient to develop applications for mobile handsets which encourages the application development industry to concentrate more on Android Operating System.
  • Possibilities of Open Source: Android is an Open Source OS which enables each and every developers to develop their own applications.Now Android applications library contains millions of free and paid applications.
  • Easy to upgrade:Android OS can be upgraded to new versions without changing hardware.This enables Android users to get up-to-date features from this OS.
  • More Reliable and secure:Android OS provides users more reliable and secure environment.Error in an application won't crash the full OS.It also enables more security features. 
Some of the low cost Android mobile phones available in Indian market are

Spice Mi-270
Micromax Andro A60
Karbonn A1
Micromax A50
Lava S12
Samsung galaxy Pocket
LG Optimus Me P350
Motorola Fire
Huawei Ideos X3 U8510
Motorola XT800 ZHISHANG
Samsung Galaxy Y S5360
Samsung Galaxy Y Color Plus S5360
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro
Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini
LG Optimus Pro C660


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