SMARTPHONE OPERATING SYSTEMS INDEX Index Table of Contents Table of Contents... i List of Figures... iv Executive summary...1 1 Smartphones and their operating systems...3 1.1 Smartphone operating systems...3 1.2 Benefits of using open smartphone OS platforms...5 1.2.1 How handset manufacturers can benefit from open smartphone OS platforms..5 1.2.2 How operators can benefit from open smartphone OS platforms...6 1.3 Key smartphone operating systems...8 1.3.1 Symbian OS...8 1.3.2 Windows Mobile...9 1.3.3 Linux...10 1.4 Smartphone categories and segments...12 1.4.1 Voice centric smartphones...13 1.4.2 Messaging smartphones...13 1.4.3 Multimedia smartphones...14 1.5 Smartphone form factors...14 1.5.1 Candybar smartphones...15 1.5.2 Clamshell smartphones...16 1.5.3 PDA smartphones with full QWERTY keyboard...16 1.5.4 PDA smartphones...17 1.5.5 Slide smartphones...17 1.6 Smartphone hardware platforms...18 2 Symbian OS...21 2.1 Overview of Symbian OS...21 2.1.1 Symbian Ltd....21 2.1.2 Symbian OS royalty rates and licensees...22 2.2 Symbian OS architecture and versions...24 STRATEGIC VAS RESEARCH SERIES i
INDEX SMARTPHONE OPERATING SYSTEMS 2.2.1 Symbian OS architecture...24 2.2.2 Symbian OS versions...27 2.3 Symbian OS user interface and application platforms...27 2.3.1 S60...28 2.3.2 UIQ...31 2.3.3 MOAP...32 2.4 Symbian application development...33 3 Windows Mobile...35 3.1 Overview of Windows Mobile...35 3.1.1 Microsoft Corporation...35 3.1.2 Windows Mobile licensees...36 3.2 Windows Mobile architecture and versions...37 3.2.1 Windows Mobile architecture and functionality...37 3.2.2 Windows Mobile platforms and versions...38 3.3 Windows Mobile application development...40 4 Emerging smartphone OS...43 4.1 Mobile Linux platforms and standardisation efforts...44 4.1.1 LiMo Foundation...45 4.1.2 LiPS Forum...46 4.1.3 NTT DoCoMo MOAP Linux software platform...46 4.1.4 MontaVista Software...47 4.1.5 Wind River...48 4.1.6 Trolltech s Linux Qtopia application platform and user interface...48 4.1.7 a la Mobile s Converged Linux Platform...50 4.1.8 ACCESS Linux Platform...50 4.2 Palm/Garnet OS...51 4.3 RIM...52 4.4 OS X...53 5 Key smartphone vendors models...55 5.1 Nokia...56 5.2 Research In Motion...60 5.3 HTC...62 ii STRATEGIC RESEARCH SERIES VAS RESEARCH SERIES
SMARTPHONE OPERATING SYSTEMS INDEX 5.4 Motorola...65 5.5 Palm...68 5.6 Sony Ericsson...71 6 Second tier smartphone vendors...75 6.1 Panasonic...76 6.2 NEC Corporation...76 6.3 Mitsubishi Electric...77 6.4 Sharp Corporation...77 6.5 Fujitsu...78 6.6 Samsung...79 6.7 Hewlett Packard...81 6.8 LG Electronics...82 6.9 Apple...82 6.10 Amoi Electronics...83 6.11 Asus...84 6.12 E-TEN...84 6.13 Gigabyte...85 6.14 i-mate...86 6.15 Mitac/Mio Technology...86 6.16 Neonode...87 6.17 Toshiba...87 6.18 ZTE...88 7 Market forecasts and trends...89 7.1 Key trends...89 7.1.1 Drivers for increasing adoption of smartphone OS...90 7.1.2 Barriers to increased adoption of smartphone OS...91 7.2 Key smartphone vendor market shares...92 7.3 Smartphone OS market share development...93 7.4 Handset sales forecast...94 7.5 Smartphone sales forecast by region...96 7.6 Smartphone sales forecast by operating system...97 Glossary...99 STRATEGIC VAS RESEARCH SERIES iii
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 2001 2006)...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 2002 2006)...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 P3300...64 Figure 5.7: Examples of current HTC smartphones...65 Figure 5.8: Moto Q GSM and MOTORIZR Z8...67 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 2002 2006)...92 iv STRATEGIC RESEARCH SERIES VAS RESEARCH SERIES
SMARTPHONE OPERATING SYSTEMS INDEX Figure 7.2: Smartphone sales as share of total handset sales, by brand (2002 2006)...93 Figure 7.3: Smartphone unit shipments by OS (Worldwide 2002 2006)...94 Figure 7.4: Handset shipment forecast by category (Worldwide 2006 2012)...95 Figure 7.5: Smartphone shipments by region (Worldwide 2006 2012)...96 Figure 7.6: Smartphone unit shipments forecast by OS (Worldwide 2006 2012)...98 STRATEGIC VAS RESEARCH SERIES v
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