Investigation on Trends of Mobile Operating Systems

Abstract

In today’s world, everybody from a lay man to an industrialist is using a mobile phone. Therefore, it becomes a challenging factor for the mobile industries to provide best features and easy to use interface to its customer. Due to rapid advancement of the technology, the mobile industry is also continuously growing. However, perfection is the key requirement of the mobile users which needs the continous technology refinement in due course of time. This paper reviews the different mobile operating systems viz. Android, Symbian, iOS, Windows, and Blackberry considering the different parameters like architecture, user interfaces, processor used, memory utilization, device security, power management, connectivity, cross platforming and cloud readiness etc. This comparative study of various mobile operating systems would help the end users and developers to opt and choose for the right kind of mobile OS to meet their requirement.