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."[1]
- 2007 Open Handset Alliance (OHA) formed by Google, HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Samsung, LG, etc.[2]
- 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 The 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 Ubuntu announced 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. [3]
- 2013 BlackBerry releases their new operating system for smartphones and tablets, BlackBerry 10.
