This document presents a comparative study of different mobile operating systems conducted by students Zulkar Naim, Mosarrof Hossain, and Shahidul Islam. It provides overviews of BlackBerry OS and Symbian OS, compares app availability and market share between various platforms, discusses advantages and disadvantages, and examines recently launched and upcoming mobile OSs such as Firefox OS and Ubuntu Touch. The study was supervised by Nafisa Khanam Siddika and presented course research on comparative analysis of mobile operating systems.

1. Date: September 12, 2013
Group Members:
Name: Zulkar Naim ID: 2010000000039
Name: Mosarrof Hossain, ID: 2010000000009
Name: Shahidul Islam, ID: 2010000000007
Course Code: CSE-4000
CourseTitle: Research Methodology
Supervised by:
Nafisa Khanam Siddika
Southeast University, Dhaka
Final Presentation on-
Comparative Study on Different Mobile
Operating Systems(OS)

2. Contents
 WhatWe’ve already discussed!
 Short Overview on BlackBerry OS
 Short Overview on Symbian OS
 Comparison in case of Apps availability
 More things to Compare
 Selling Comparison
 Comparison in case of Market Share
 Advantages & Disadvantages
 Recently Launched & Upcoming Mobile OSs
 Problem of Mobile OSs
 Conclusion
 References

3. We’ve already discussed!
 What is OS and Mobile OS?
 Short Overview on Android OS, iOS &Windows Phone OS
 Open Source & Closed Source
 Comparison in case ofApps Availability onAndroid OS, iOS &
Windows Phone OS
 Advantages & Disadvantages of Android OS, iOS &Windows
Phone OS
 Importance to know about the comparison among Mobile OSs

4. Short Overview on BlackBerry OS
 BlackBerry OS from RIM(Research In Motion).[1]
 Closed Source & Proprietary.
 First released version was in 1999
 Such as BlackBerry Bold 9790, BlackBerry Z10 and
so on.

5. Short Overview on Symbian OS
 Symbian OS from Symbian Ltd. [2]
 Closed Source & Proprietary.
 First released version was in 1997.
 Such as Nokia 808 PureView, Samsung SGH-i400
and so on.

6. Comparison in Case of Apps Availability
 BlackBerry OS
About 120,000 available apps according to CNET till
May, 2013. [4]
 Symbian OS
About 110,000 available apps according to an article by
Mark till June 2012.[3]

7. More things to compare!
Operating
Systems
Age of OS’s Number Of Major
Versions
UpcomingVersion
iOS 6 years 6 7.0
Android OS 6 years 8 Kitkat, 4.4
Windows Phone OS 13 years 8 8.1
Symbian OS 16 years 14 -
Blackberry OS 14 years 6 10.2

8. More things to compare! ( Cont. )
Operating
Systems
Current Version OS Family Programmed In
iOS 6.1.4 Darwin C, C++
Android OS 4.3 Linux C, C++, Java
Windows Phone OS 8 Windows CE 7,
NT8+
C, C++
Blackberry OS 7.1 Mobile OS Java
Symbian OS 10.1 Mobile OS C++

9. Selling Comparison
Table: Units of Smartphone sold in every quarter time period[5]

10. Blackberry & Symbian Market Share
According to NetMarketShare.com-
 Blackberry OS: 3.28% till August 2013
 Symbian OS: 3.26% till August 2013

11. Predicted Market Share given by
IDC(International Data Corporation) till 2017
Table: Predicted Market share of Smartphones based on OSs[7]

12. Comparison of Market Share state
between 2013 & 2017

13. Advantages & Disadvantages of BlackBerry OS
Advantages
 Designed for Business Purpose uses. [10]
 It offers free BBM(BlackBerry Messenger) service.
Disadvantages
 Only a few number of apps are available in market for
Blackberry OS.
 BlackBerry devices are Costly

14. Advantages & Disadvantages of Symbian OS
Advantages
 Symbian OS is easy to Configure on devices. [11]
 It offers fully Multitasking feature.
 It has lots of built-in features.
 Simple than other mobile OS. So It’s easier to use.
 Symbian OS based Smartphones are available in reasonable prices.
Disadvantages
 Not so much Apps are available.
 Apps are varying for OS versions. For example- an Apps developed for Symbian
OS version S60v2 can not be install/run into Symbian OS version S60v3.
 Not much Stable. Reboot automatically while there are many apps running on
background.

15. Recently launched & Upcoming Mobile OSs
 There are several new Mobile OS platforms are launched and
some of these are still in development State. Such as –
 Firefox OS (already launched & produced Smartphone)
 UbuntuTouch,
 Sailfish OS,
 Tizen.
 We’ve discussed here about Firefox OS and Ubuntu
Touch.

16. About Firefox OS
 Short Overview
 Developed by Mozilla[8]
 Previous Project name was – Boot to Gecko
 Linux based Open-Source OS
 Initial released inApril 23, 2013
 Latest stable version is 1.0.1, released in July 2, 2013
 ZTE Open is the commercially launched Smartphone
 Features of Firefox OS

17. About Ubuntu Touch
 Short Overview
 Developed by Canonical[9]
 Linux based Open-Source OS
 Based onAndroid but not used Java anywhere
 Still in Development State
 Initial released for Developer Review in July 2, 2013
 Ubuntu Edge might be the 1st Smartphone, announced by
Canonical
 Features of UbuntuTouch

18. Problems of Mobile OSs
 Fragmentation in Android version Up gradation
 FreeApps availability
 Security problem on apps

19. Conclusion
 Why this research is necessary?
-This is theTime ofTechnology, everybody is got a smart
device.
- Everybody needs a device, which one to take?
-Take a academy course, study through smart device,
which one is better?
- Play a game, which OS’s gives it for free?
-Which OS is for your type( varying profession/ age )?
-A vast employment for web developers, graphics
designers, software developers

20. References
 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry - LastAccessed:July 14, 2013
 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian#History - LastAccessed: July 14, 2013
 3. http://blog.mobiles.co.uk/app-reviews/how-many-apps-2012/ - LastAccessed:August 29, 2013
 4. http://www.appbrain.com/stats/number-of-android-apps - LastAccessed: July 21, 2013
 5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_operating_system - LastAccessed: July 18, 2013
 6. http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=9&qpcustomb=1 -
LastAccessed: Septemer 3, 2013
 7. http://bgr.com/2013/09/05/windows-phone-2017-market-share-projection/ - LastAccessed:
September 6, 2013
 8. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/notes/1.0.1/ - LastAccessed: September 7, 2013
 9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Touch - LastAccessed: September 7, 2013 at 2:43PM
 10. http://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Blog/Mobile-Operating-Systems-Compared-iOSAndroid-and-
Windows-Phone/ba-p/2776337 - LastAccessed:June 18, 2013- 3:33PM
 11. http://www.slideshare.net/devaashish1/symbian-os-13476571 - LastAccessed: august 29, 2013 @
9:19am