Saturday, October 21, 2006

PDA Operating Systems

This post is a continuation of the series exploring mobile technology platforms. For introduction to the series please refer to: "What technology platform to choose for development of mobile applications?"

Other postings in the series:
Mobile Messaging
Mobile Web
Mobile Java
BREW
Symbian
Mobile Linux
Microsoft Windows Mobile Platform

PDA Operating Systems

A number of PDA based smartphones are available on the market. Those PDAs run one of the three operating systems:
Microsoft Windows Mobile
PalmSource PalmOS
RIM Blackberry

Metrowerks CodeWarrier Development Studio is the primary development platform and C/C++ are the native languages for PalmOS. Blackberry’s application development framework – Blackberry Mobile Data System (MDS) is Java based. Microsoft Windows Mobile Platform has been discussed at the earlier posting.

According to Canalys, among the PDA based smartphones PalmOS has the largest market share (4.7% in 2005) and Blackberry the fastest growth trajectory.

OS vendor2004 Shipments% Share2005 Shipments% ShareGrowth 04/05
PalmSource1,210,0905.2%2,199,3604.7%81.75%
Microsoft1,119,6104.8%1,426,7703.0%27.4%
RIM135,180.6%684,4101.5%406%

Source: Canalys estimates © 2005 canalys.com ltd.

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