SMARTPHONE OPERATING SYSTEMS

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1 SMARTPHONE OPERATING SYSTEMS INDEX Index Table of Contents Table of Contents... i List of Figures... iv Executive summary Smartphones and their operating systems Smartphone operating systems Benefits of using open smartphone OS platforms How handset manufacturers can benefit from open smartphone OS platforms How operators can benefit from open smartphone OS platforms Key smartphone operating systems Symbian OS Windows Mobile Linux Smartphone categories and segments Voice centric smartphones Messaging smartphones Multimedia smartphones Smartphone form factors Candybar smartphones Clamshell smartphones PDA smartphones with full QWERTY keyboard PDA smartphones Slide smartphones Smartphone hardware platforms Symbian OS Overview of Symbian OS Symbian Ltd Symbian OS royalty rates and licensees Symbian OS architecture and versions...24 STRATEGIC VAS RESEARCH SERIES i

2 INDEX SMARTPHONE OPERATING SYSTEMS Symbian OS architecture Symbian OS versions Symbian OS user interface and application platforms S UIQ MOAP Symbian application development Windows Mobile Overview of Windows Mobile Microsoft Corporation Windows Mobile licensees Windows Mobile architecture and versions Windows Mobile architecture and functionality Windows Mobile platforms and versions Windows Mobile application development Emerging smartphone OS Mobile Linux platforms and standardisation efforts LiMo Foundation LiPS Forum NTT DoCoMo MOAP Linux software platform MontaVista Software Wind River Trolltech s Linux Qtopia application platform and user interface a la Mobile s Converged Linux Platform ACCESS Linux Platform Palm/Garnet OS RIM OS X Key smartphone vendors models Nokia Research In Motion HTC...62 ii STRATEGIC RESEARCH SERIES VAS RESEARCH SERIES

3 SMARTPHONE OPERATING SYSTEMS INDEX 5.4 Motorola Palm Sony Ericsson Second tier smartphone vendors Panasonic NEC Corporation Mitsubishi Electric Sharp Corporation Fujitsu Samsung Hewlett Packard LG Electronics Apple Amoi Electronics Asus E-TEN Gigabyte i-mate Mitac/Mio Technology Neonode Toshiba ZTE Market forecasts and trends Key trends Drivers for increasing adoption of smartphone OS Barriers to increased adoption of smartphone OS Key smartphone vendor market shares Smartphone OS market share development Handset sales forecast Smartphone sales forecast by region Smartphone sales forecast by operating system...97 Glossary...99 STRATEGIC VAS RESEARCH SERIES iii

4 INDEX SMARTPHONE OPERATING SYSTEMS Index List of Figures Figure 1.1: Functional overview of a smartphone operating system...4 Figure 1.2: Smartphone categories...12 Figure 1.3: Examples of common smartphone form factors...15 Figure 1.4: Smartphone hardware platform architectures...18 Figure 2.1: Symbian Ltd. shareholders (May 2007)...22 Figure 2.2: Current Symbian OS licensees...23 Figure 2.3: Annual shipments of Symbian OS smartphones (Worldwide )...24 Figure 2.4: Symbian OS architecture overview...25 Figure 2.5: S60 architecture, editions and feature packs...30 Figure 3.1: Examples of Windows Mobile licensees...36 Figure 3.2: Annual shipments of Windows Mobile smartphones (Worldwide )...37 Figure 3.3: Windows Mobile platform naming convention...39 Figure 5.1: Top worldwide smartphone vendor market shares (Worldwide 2006)...55 Figure 5.2: Nokia N93i and Nokia E61i...57 Figure 5.3: Examples of current Nokia smartphones...59 Figure 5.4: RIM Blackberry devices...61 Figure 5.5: Examples of current RIM BlackBerry smartphones...62 Figure 5.6: HTC TyTN and P Figure 5.7: Examples of current HTC smartphones...65 Figure 5.8: Moto Q GSM and MOTORIZR Z Figure 5.9: Examples of current Motorola smartphones...68 Figure 5.10: Current Palm smartphones...70 Figure 5.11: Sony Ericsson P1 and W950i...73 Figure 5.12: Examples of current Sony Ericsson smartphones...74 Figure 6.1: Operating systems supported by second tier smartphone vendors...75 Figure 6.2: Examples of current Samsung smartphones...80 Figure 6.3: Examples of current HP smartphones...81 Figure 7.1: Key smartphone vendor shipments by OS (Worldwide )...92 iv STRATEGIC RESEARCH SERIES VAS RESEARCH SERIES

5 SMARTPHONE OPERATING SYSTEMS INDEX Figure 7.2: Smartphone sales as share of total handset sales, by brand ( )...93 Figure 7.3: Smartphone unit shipments by OS (Worldwide )...94 Figure 7.4: Handset shipment forecast by category (Worldwide )...95 Figure 7.5: Smartphone shipments by region (Worldwide )...96 Figure 7.6: Smartphone unit shipments forecast by OS (Worldwide )...98 STRATEGIC VAS RESEARCH SERIES v

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