How Smartphones Work
Symbian and the Mobile Phone Industry
Table of contents:
Part I How Smartphones Work
1 The Basics of a Mobile Phone System
Precious Spectrum
From Analog to 4G
Inside a Mobile Phone
2 Why a Different Operating System Is Needed
Voice Plus
Designs on a Mass Market
Reliable Connections
Product Diversity
Open Platform
Why Symbian OS?
Supporting Industry Standards
3 The Roots of Symbian
New Foundations
Growing Up
The Dot.com Boom
4 Symbian OS Fundamentals
Symbian OS Architecture
Symbian OS Technology
Delivering Symbian OS
5 From Feature Phones to Smartphones
Customization by Mobile Phone Manufacturers
Customization by Network Operators
Customization by End Users
The Market Decides
Part II The Smartphone Ecosystem
6 Mobile Phone Manufacturers
The Value of Cooperation
A Platform for Value
A Platform for Smartphones (User Interfaces)
A Platform for Extensibility
7 Network Operators
Challenges Facing Network Operators
The Requirements of Network Operators
Symbian Developers
Future Challenges
8 Semiconductor Manufacturers
Baseband and Application Processors
Semiconductor and Mobile Phone Manufacturers
Types of Semiconductor Company
Semiconductor Companies and Symbian
Bringing Value to Smartphones
Chips in Future
9 The Symbian Developer
Who is the Symbian Developer?
The Importance of developers
Selling Applications
Supporting Symbian developers
Future Development
10 Symbian OS for Businesses
The Enterprise Ecosystem and Symbian
Deploying the Mobile Enterprise
Mobile Enterprise Challenges
Developing the Mobile Enterprise
11 Java and Other Runtime Frameworks
Java
Java and Platform Independence
Java and Standards
Java and Security
Evolution of Java
Java and Mobile Phones
Java on Symbian OS
Mobile Java Now and In the Future
Book facts
- Editor: Phil Northam
- Published by Symbian Press
- Publication date: March 2006
- 210 pages
- ISBN 0470028866
