| It's commonly known that mobile industry is quickly developing nowadays. The smartphones have also been given important position in the range of opportunities given by the mobile application developers. In this respect it's difficult to overrate the role of Symbian OS. People that are acquainted with the underlying mechanisms of Symbian OS operation affirm that the system takes responsibility for the promotion and improvement of the effective cooperation of all the mobile technologies. The amount of phones that run Symbian operating system is increasing as time goes by, and nowadays their number is significantly higher than 32 million.
Although the majority of end consumers don't pay specific attention to what type of operating system is installed at their smartphone, it is truly essential to realize that the OS has an essential effect on the method of the smartphone operation and all the applications installed. The role of operating system on a mobile phone can be shortly explained by fulfilling the following tasks:
- Firstly, the operating system should make it easier for the software of the smartphone to apply the hardware and the network of the phone;
- Moreover, the essential task of operating system on a smartphone is to prevent conflicts between different applications.
In case there are a wide diversity of applications on the smartphone, there is a need for the most sophisticated operating system. It relates particularly to the case when the software on the cell phone is provided from various sources, such as:
- Applications from the supplier of the operating system
- Applications given by the producer of the cell phone
- Applications from the network operator
- Applications given by the corporate IT department for the mobile phones that are used for business purposes
- Applications from the third parties
- Purchased or downloaded applications.
Taking into account that the software developers are particularly interested in having their software installed on the phones of various models from various producers, it's quite logical that the developers of applications focus on the application programming interfaces given by the operating system, not on the phone networks and hardware. It's much more beneficial to develop the applications that may be applied on a great diversity of mobile phones and networks. The differences between the smartphones and networks are taken into account by the OS, not by the developers of applications.
In this way, the software developers may be certain that their applications originally invented for smartphones from a certain producer can be easily applied at the smartphones from other producers, commonly without any need for changes to the mentioned software. |
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