What kind of operating systems do phones use?
1 Answer
Dec 24, 2016
Hmmm...
Explanation:
You can break down the operating systems in a variety of ways.
At a high level, mobile phones can be divided into three categories:
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Dumb phones, with an OS that purely drives use as a phone.
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Feature phones, with an OS that probably supports Java ME games and messaging, etc.
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Smartphones, with multi-tasking operating system that supports a wide variety of apps.
The most popular OS's for smartphones are probably:
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Android (Linux based)
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iOS (BSD based)
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Windows
There are other smartphone operating systems which are less popular or obsolete:
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Tizen (Linux based)
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WebOS (Linux based)
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Symbian OS
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BlackBerry OS
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PalmOS
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WinCE
