Mobile Operating Systems - History

History

Mobile operating system milestones mirror the development of mobile phones and smartphones:

  • 1979–1992 Mobile phones have embedded systems to control operation.
  • 1993 The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, has a touchscreen, email and PDA features.
  • 1996 Palm Pilot 1000 personal digital assistant is introduced with the Palm OS mobile operating system.
  • 1996 First Windows CE Handheld PC devices are introduced.
  • 1999 Nokia S40 OS is officially introduced with the launch of the Nokia 7110
  • 2000 Symbian becomes the first modern mobile OS on a smartphone with the launch of the Ericsson R380.
  • 2001 The Kyocera 6035 is the first smartphone with Palm OS.
  • 2002 Microsoft's first Windows CE (Pocket PC) smartphones are introduced.
  • 2002 BlackBerry releases its first smartphone.
  • 2005 Nokia introduces Maemo OS on the first internet tablet N770.
  • 2007 Apple iPhone with iOS is introduced as an iPhone, "mobile phone" and "internet communicator."
  • 2007 Open Handset Alliance (OHA) formed by Google, HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Samsung, LG, etc.
  • 2008 OHA releases Android 1.0 with the HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1) as the first Android phone.
  • 2009 Palm introduces webOS with the Palm Pre. By 2012 webOS devices were no longer sold.
  • 2009 Samsung announces the Bada OS with the introduction of the Samsung S8500.
  • 2010 Windows Phone OS phones are released but are not compatible with the previous Windows Mobile OS.
  • 2011 MeeGo the first mobile Linux, combined Maemo and Moblin, is introduced with Nokia N9 in effect of cooperation of Nokia, Intel and Linux Foundation
  • In September 2011 Samsung, Intel and the Linux Foundation announced that their efforts will shift from Bada, MeeGo to Tizen during 2011 and 2012.
  • In October 2011 the Mer project was announced, centered around an ultra-portable Linux + HTML5/QML/JS Core for building products with, derived from the MeeGo codebase.
  • 2012 Mozilla announced in July 2012 that the project previously known as "Boot to Gecko" was now Firefox OS and had several handset OEMs on board with the project.
  • 2013 Canonical announced Ubuntu Touch, a version of the Linux distribution expressly designed for smartphones. The OS is built on the Android Linux kernel, using Android drivers, but does not use any of the Java-like code of Android.
  • 2013 BlackBerry releases their new operating system for smartphones and tablets, BlackBerry 10.

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