Subject: Mobile Computing

Difficulty: Medium

Marks: 4 Marks

Features of Symbian operating system:

• Real-time: It has a real-time, multithreaded kernel.
• Multimedia support: It supports audio, video recording, playback and streaming, and image conversion.
• Platform Security: Symbian provides a security mechanism against malware. It allows sensitive operations and can be accessed by applications which have been certified by a signing authority. In addition, it supports full encryption and certificate management.
• Internationalization support: It supports Unicode standard.
• Client-server architecture: It provides simple and high-efficient inter-process communication. This feature also eases porting of code written for other platforms to Symbian OS.
• Fully object-oriented and component-based.
• Optimized memory management.
• Flexible user interface design.
• Multi-tasking.
• A Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL): This layer provides a consistent interface to hardware and supports device in dependency.