Smartphones’ Market Leaders

Mobile phone devices today are not just means of communication, today it offers more than just talking and writing short messages. Today smartphones have overcome most of the communication and entertainment devices. This increasingly popular industry of smartphones has made mobile app development one of the most competitive businesses. You may have installed and downloaded some amazing and eye catching apps from different platforms, which have been created by many third party mobile app development companies.

There are so many mobile platforms nowadays; some of them are limited to the firms which produce products, while some platforms such as Android OS are available for third party usage.

Below Listed Are Some Of The Most Popular Smartphone Platforms.

Symbian

Symbian hold one of the largest shares in the smartphone’s market, and is also one of the most highly preferred platforms for mobile app development. Symbian operating system (OS) is an open source platform which was created by Symbian Software Ltd. Currently Nokia is maintaining Symbian OS for its mobile phone devices. One of the most highlighting features of Symbian includes its kernel (EKA2) which is supportive fast real time response to create single core phone around it.

Android

The launch of Android revolutionized the whole mobile phone industry; Android is based upon a modified version of Linux Kernel and it is considered as the most user friendly mobile platform. The Android software stack is consists of Java applications on object-oriented application framework on top of Java core libraries. Android operating system was developed by Android Inc. which today is a acquired by Google Inc.

iOS

Apple’s iPone and its popularity all around the world does not need any introduction, the iOS platform also known as i-generation platform is used to develop mobile applications for iPhone, iPad, and other Apple devices. Unlike the rivalry platforms, Apple does not license iOS for installation on non-Apple devices or hardware. The i-generation platform iOS is basically a mobile version of MAC OS X.

Blackberry

Blackberry uses RIM (Research in Motion) operating system to develop application software for Blackberry devices. By using the Blackberry API (Application Programming Interface), RIM allows developers to write software and create mobile apps for Blackberry. The Blackberry App Store currently holds over 15,000 third-party mobile apps downloadable for its users.

Windows Mobile

Windows mobiles are an exclusive addition in smartphone industry from the computer giant, “Microsoft”.

Windows mobile comes with the ability of navigating files similarly as Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT with support for many same files types, features such as multitasking and more.