Symbian Operating System

PRESENTED BY SHOYAB SIDDIQUI ROLL NO.-21 REGISTRATION NO.-10805456

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SYMBIAN OPERATING SYSTEM HISTORY FEATURES APPLICATIONS MEMORY MANAGEMENT SECURITY

Himal P. Humagain

Fall 2005

Symbian OS

4/30/2012

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Symbian OS is the advanced, open operating system licensed by the

worlds leading mobile phone manufacturers. Features of Symbian system Integrated multimode mobile telephony - Symbian OS integrates the power of computing with mobile telephony, bringing advanced data services to the mass market. Messaging - Symbian OS includes comprehensive support for SMS, EMS, MMS, email and fax.

History Symbian established as a private independent company in June

24 ,1998, owned by Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and Psion. Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and supplies the advanced, open, standard operating system Symbian OS for data-enabled mobile phones.

5 Features of Symbian

Upgrade of PSIONs EPOC series OS.

Browsing: full web browser support Messaging: support MMS, EMS, SMS. Multimedia: shared access to screen, keyboard, fonts and

bitmaps; audio recording and playback, and image related functionality. Communication protocols: including TCP, WAP, IrDA, Bluetooth, USB Mobile telephony: abstract API for cellular standards.
Security: full-strength encryption and certificate management,

secure communications protocols .

Application platforms
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Series 60 is a UI for mobile phones that are

single-handed operated. In addition to voice communication, multimedia messaging, content browsing and application downloading are the main features of this platform. Series 80 is a UI for devices with larger horizontal screens. It is used in clamshell devices with a keyboard. UIQ is a customizable pen-based user interface platform for media-rich mobile phones based on Symbian OS.

Memory Management
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Supports RAM maximum of 2GB. Applications share RAM with operating system but has

exclusive access to their allocated memory area Flash and expansion card memory is used for storage. The kernel runs within its own protected address space. So a programs memory leak or stack over-run can't overwrite the kernel's stack or heap which would cause a system crash. Symbian OS presents a virtual machine model to all running programs.

Security

Symbian OS has been subject to a variety of viruses, the best known of

which is Cabir. Usually these send themselves from phone to phone by Bluetooth. Symbian OS 9.x has adopted a capability model. Installed software will theoretically be unable to do damaging things (such as costing the user money by sending network data) without being digitally signed thus making it traceable.

Hacking Symbian OS
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S60 version 3 (OS 9.1, 9.2 & 9.3) devices can be

hacked to remove the platform security introduced in OS 9.1 onwards thus allowing users to install "unsigned" files (files without certificates validated by Symbian) and allowing access to previously locked system files.

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THANK U ANY QUERIES

Himal P. Humagain

Fall 2005

Symbian OS

4/30/2012