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History of Mobile OS

Rajeev Verma — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:55:36 +0000

This time I got this question about Android Os. So here is what I explained.

As we use windows operating system(OS) on our PCs, mobile phone works on various OS. This OS thing is the big difference between Smartphones(Nokia N73) and feature phone(Nokia 3315).

Symbian foundation developed Symbian OS for mobile phone and this was the fist advanced OS for mobile phones. Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and other manufacturer used it on their phones. You may have used it on Nokia 6600, 6630, N70, N72, N73, N95-98, E series etc.. etc..

Apple launched first version of iPhone in January 2007. It was way ahead of Symbian and other OS present at that time. This phone made every other OS look like a decade old in front of it. Any manufacturer had nothing to show to public in comparison to Apple’s iOS. iOS evolved through different versions and latest is iOS 4.0. Actually its first time it is called as iOS. We were calling it iPhone Os until now.

Now here came Google’s Android to rescue

In Nov 2007 Google announced Android OS for mobile phones. It was just the piece of technology that was able to challenge iOS. The mind blowing thing with this OS was that this OS is free to use(open source) by anyone that can make hardware to support this OS.

In Feb 2009 came first phone carrying Android OS 1.1 from American telecom company T-mobile called T-mobile G-1.

Than came android 1.5( codename cupcake)

1.6 (Donut) This version currently powers my Samsung Galaxy.

2.0/2.1(Eclair)

2.2(froyo)-this one latest in production phones

Future release will be called “Gingerbread” and then next one will be “Honeycomb”.

Every big manufacturer Like Samsung, Motorola, HTC, Sony Ericsson , Dell, and many more jumped into the bandwagon and started making Android phones. You must have seen the latest Samsung Galaxy S phone’s ads in TV, yes that’s an android phone.

In between all these new technology advances Nokia took one ridiculous step and purchased Symbian OS in 2008 and made it open source. No one other than Nokia wanted to use it now.

The latest Nokia phone N8 will be carrying Symbian’s latest version that they call Symbian^3. Every Technology Guru has declared N8 as Hardware masterpiece but Software failure. It just cant stand in front of iOS or Android for a sec.

Now Nokia themselves have realized their mistake and have started investing in a new OS called MeeGo along with Intel for their upcoming phones. Nokia knows its in trouble because of Symbian.

The best part about android and iPhone is that every Android phone comes with an inbuilt android marketplace and iPhone with iTunes. Android market place has close to 100,000 Application and games that you can download and install directly on your phone with few click of button( oops..few taps on the screen) and iOS has around 3 times more apps and games. 80% of these apps are free to download and use.

Other big player in market is Research In Motion(RIM). RIM is manufacturer of Blackberry phones. They are making these phones rich in communication abilities since 1996. They are also struggling to combat iOS and Android. They recently announced new version blackberry OS 6.0.

Palm pre is another player but they have not been able to make their place in this mobile OS war. Recently they have been acquired by HP.

Windows phones have been around for a long time but they were not able to attract much of traction as they were considered buisness phones but they were not good as Blackberry for business purpose. They have recently announced Windows mobile 7.

Samsung released Bada operating system and Samsung wave mobile with this OS. I don’t think no one knows about this OS other that samsung itself. Do you wanna know?

If you have something to add please feel free to comment below.

Download Norton Antivirus free

Rajeev Verma — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:03:51 +0000

Want original Norton Antivirus without purchasing and that too from Norton’s original website?

Norton is testing its new version of antivirus and is giving away it for no cost.

Get Norton Antivirus here

Get Norton Internet Security here

This new Norton antivirus and Norton internet security is built by Norton to fix the thing that is making the user run away from it. Actually Norton antivirus has always been considered as big CPU hog that means it uses a ton of CPU of the computer on which it is running and make it run slower.

This is beta version by Norton and it may expire after sometime but I consider using a beta version rather than using a pirated and full version from some other source.

>>>> If you want me to thank for that you can go and complete one or more offer by clicking here <<<<<

Enjoy!

Faster Server

Rajeev Verma — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:22:17 +0000

Many of you sent me email as this blog was down for couple of days. This was because I was using shared hosting and the large amount of visitor this blog and my other blogs and forum were attracting was far more than the shared server can handle so the server came down.

As soon as the loyal readers of this and my other blogs started complaining about the slow loading speed or complete stoppage of services I worked quickly and moved this blog to a VPS ( Virtual Private Server).

Selecting a nice server provider requires doing some deep studies or you can end up purchasing a server that can lead to more headache. Doing the study took few more hours but we are Up and Running again and you can also see the huge improvement in the page loading speed.

You may want to know what server provider I am using now. This blog is on ServInt.com VPS.

As I was doing the study I stressed a lot on the the quality of support the server provider is offering and I noticed all of the users of Servint gave them thumbs up. After purchasing the server I have few email conversation with support and I always got their replies within minutes of creating a ticked. Looks good till now.

Who signed up on facebook because of you

Rajeev Verma — Fri, 07 May 2010 09:37:44 +0000

For a long period I have been on facebook and I have forgotten how I first reached facebook. I dont remember who invited me to facebook or I myself typed the web address.

Like me most of you might also have forgotten but now facebook has started giving some detail description about the invites.

If you would like to know who all have joined Facebook because of you, go here.
If you would like to see a list of all people whom you have invited to join Facebook but they are yet to accept your invitation, go here.
If you like to know who in your friends circle has brought the maximum number of people to Facebook so far, go to facebook.com/impact.

You can also send invites to friends to whom you have previously invited but the invitation was not accepted or stayed unnoticed.

Which Web Browser you use?

Rajeev Verma — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:13:13 +0000

Most of the people use a single web browser for their all online activities but as a webmaster I need to check my websites in all the major browsers available for compatibility testing. Not just for compatibility testing these browser also help in some way or other so I can work more efficiently.

At present I have following browsers:

In these I like Google Chrome the most because it is much faster than other browsers. I don’t have to wait for it to start as it starts in a flash and also page rendering is speed is also far better than other browsers.

I use Mozilla Firefox as my second browser to browse my second google account and also because it has so much cool plugins that helps a lot.

Third Browser I use is Apple safari as it is most used browser on Mac computers and it cannot be overlooked.

Opera Browser is other browser I use because it sync with opera mini browser that I use on my mobile phone. If I find any site that I feel useful when browsing the web on my mobile phone then I bookmark it to see it later on my laptop.

Microsoft Internet explorer is rarely used by me as I don’t like it at all.

Flock Browser is for my social networking needs. It is a special browser built to manage all social networks you use with lesser work.

Other browsers are just for testing purpose.

So which is your favourite web browser and why?

Happy Deepawali to all!

Rajeev Verma — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:40:38 +0000

Happy deepawali to all Rajeev Verma’s notebook reader..

Image resizing in wordpress blog

Rajeev Verma — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:32:30 +0000

I always have a hard time resizing images to post in my blog. I am no professional web designer I don’t find myself comfortable knowing the perfect size every time.

I was just checking out my blog and I came across this fine plugin, nCode Image Resizer, that resizes the images using the javascript without changing the actual properties of the images. It only resizes the images if they are larger than the value you have put in the setting of the plugin.

This plugin also give the visitors a option to see images in full size buy showing a bar above the images, clicking on which image shoes up in actual size.

I am not giving a link to download page. If you want to install plugin go to “add plugin” option in your blog and search for “nCode image resizer” (without the quotes) and you will find it. Click install and done.

Finally I got a computer!

Rajeev Verma — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:17:16 +0000

Most of you have seen my this blog, my other blogs, my youngistaan forums but not many of you know, while making all of those I never had a computer. I build, published, marketed them all from mobile phone or cafe computers. I always believed that there is no excuse for not doing something or failure. There is always a reason after it and most of the time the reason is incapability from your side. This incapability can be either physical or mental.

OK! We were not supposed to be talking about all that boring idealistic and other geeky things i this post. But I was telling you that I finally got a computer. Its an 16″ laptop from Toshiba. To be precise it’s Toshiba Satellite L500 model with foolowing main features:

Intel core 2 duo processor ticking at 2.1 GHz
Intel Chipset,
3GB DDR2 RAM,
320 GB of hard disk space,
16″ TFT screen,
Bluetooth,
WiFi,
DVD RW,
Genuine Windows Vista preinstalled,

and lot more..

Want to get great discount from microsoft store on this laptop go here:
Microsoft Store’s President’s Day Sale! Save $150 on a new PC for a limited time.

So as I have told in my previous post I can be found on this blog regularly (almost daily). Keep on following me here and also on twitter. Here is the twitter link to my stream: @rajv.

I am back !!

Rajeev Verma — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:17:31 +0000

Yes, its been long time since I posted something on this blog. Its really becomes hard to post everyday when you have this strong drive to explore new things everyday.

I last posted on 23rd April and in the period between I got married to my lovely wife, got a new job as a Lecturer, Anatomy Department, People’s Dental Academy Bhopal, got my biggest Google AdSense cheque of 45000+ INR , my Youngistaan forum grew to reach 13,500+ members and lots more things happened to me.

I always thought of writing some great post for you people but I find myself unable to churn out something interesting enough. Last night it dawned on me, why should I wait for a great idea to hit my brain. Why not to write about anything and everything that comes in my mind. After all this is my personal blog and I can write about anything I want. So here I am and now you will find me anytime here.

I welcome myself back from your side

Stay Tuned to Rajeev Verma .com

Rajeev Verma — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:19:54 +0000

Last few days of my life had been really interesting and coming few months are going to decide my whole future. There are great chances of my going after my dreams and not to follow the wishes of other people. I will now on try to become a professional blogger and this space is going to get updated almost everyday. So stay tuned to my blog. Not only this one but also the blogs listed below. They all belong to me.

www.youngistaan.me
www.preproblogger.com
www.bloggingtips.cn
www.blogtips.cn
www.crackedbybinpda.com

Also join my forums at www.youngistaan.me/forum. It has more than 8,000 members already ( so you are not gong to be the first and lonely )