Mobile Os

°1979–1992 Mobile phones use embedded systems to control operation.

°1994 The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, has a touchscreen, email and PDA features.

°1996 Palm Pilot 1000 personal digital assistant is introduced with the Palm OS mobile operating system.

°1996 First Windows CE Handheld PC devices are introduced.

°1999 Nokia S40 OS is officially introduced along with the Nokia 7110

°2000 Symbian becomes the first modern mobile OS on a smartphone with the launch of the Ericsson R380.

°2001 The Kyocera 6035 is the first smartphone with Palm OS.

°2002 Microsoft's first Windows CE (Pocket PC) smartphones are introduced.

°2002 BlackBerry releases its first smartphone.

°2005 Nokia introduces Maemo OS on the first internet tablet N770.

°2007 Apple iPhone with iOS is introduced as an iPhone, "mobile phone" and "internet communicator."

°2007 Open Handset Alliance (OHA) formed by Google, HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Samsung, LG, etc.

°2008 OHA releases Android 1.0 with the HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1) as the first Android phone.

°2009 Palm introduces webOS with the Palm Pre. By 2012 webOS devices were no longer sold.

°2009 Samsung announces the Bada OS with the introduction of the Samsung S8500.

°2010 Windows Phone OS phones are released but are not compatible with the previous Windows Mobile OS.

°2011 MeeGo the first mobile Linux, combining Maemo and Moblin, is introduced with the Nokia N9, a collaboration of Nokia, Intel and Linux Foundation

°In September 2011 Samsung, Intel and the Linux Foundation announced that their efforts will shift from Bada, MeeGo to Tizen during 2011 and 2012.

°In October 2011 the Mer project was announced, centered around an ultra-portable Linux + HTML5/QML/JavaScript Core for building products with, derived from the MeeGo codebase.

°2012 Mozilla announced in July 2012 that the project previously known as "Boot to Gecko" was now Firefox OS and had several handset OEMs on board.

°2013 Canonical announced Ubuntu Touch, a version of the Linux distribution expressly designed for smartphones. The OS is built on the Android Linux kernel, using Android drivers, but does not use any of the Java-like code of Android.

°2013 BlackBerry released their new operating system for smartphones and tablets, BlackBerry