| The most popular OS's for mobile devices smartphones and tablets are Apple's iOS and Google's Android and they are the only ones that still show growth | Down the ranks there are RIM's BlackBerry OS and Microsoft's Windows Mobile |
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| While the major players these days are clear, over the years we've seen the emergence of numerous mobile OS projects including but not limited to Palm's webOS, Samsung's Bada OS, Nokia's Maemo OS, Nokia's MeeGo OS, LiMo OS, Tizen, BlackBerry's Playbook OS and more recently, the Jolla's Sailfish OS and Mozilla's Firefox OS | Among the most popular computer operating systems are Microsoft's Windows and Apple's MacOS, along with the various distributions of Linux |
More recent Blackberry phones use the Android OS with added Blackberry security features.
3| and SMP — — Distributed computing• — Microkernel — Nanokernel — Exokernel — Virtual machine — System call• Yet, Android smartphone manufacturers like to customize the user experience so each offers a slightly modified version of the stock Android UI | 0 - 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X |
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| The Operating System allows the user to install and execute third-party applications commonly called apps for short , usually adding new functionality to the device | Real-time operating system — Time-sharing — — Embedded system — Single-user system — Multi-user system• OS - Operating Systems bootable from a CD without need of hard disk installation |
It controls all basic operations of the computer or other electronic devices such as PDA, smartphone, etc.
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