Question

What kind of operating systems do phones use?

Answer 1

Hmmm...

Explanation:

You can break down the operating systems in a variety of ways.

At a high level, mobile phones can be divided into three categories:

• Dumb phones, with an OS that purely drives use as a phone.

• Feature phones, with an OS that probably supports Java ME games and messaging, etc.

• Smartphones, with multi-tasking operating system that supports a wide variety of apps.

The most popular OS's for smartphones are probably:

• Android (Linux based)

• iOS (BSD based)

• Windows

There are other smartphone operating systems which are less popular or obsolete:

• Tizen (Linux based)

• WebOS (Linux based)

• Symbian OS

• BlackBerry OS

• PalmOS

• WinCE