The mobile phone system has developed step by step to the present, Android and Apple are the only two big situations, then do you remember the mobile phone system that first swept the world?
In 1998, in order to gain a head start on mobile phone terminals, Psion, a British company that focused on PDA (handheld computers), joined hands with the mobile phone giants Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola at that time to form Symbian (Symbian) company, and an operating system designed for mobile phones was born a year later.
In 2004, Nokia acquired a stake in Symbian to gain control, with the hot sales of Nokia mobile phones, in 2006, the market share of Symbian systems exceeded 70%, the status is equivalent to today's Android systems.
At this time, Nokia can be seen almost everywhere, and Nokia's hand-in-hand when it was turned on must have experienced that era.
In April 2005, Nokia held a conference in Amsterdam, Hong Kong and other places with the theme of "See New, Hear New, Feel New", at the press conference, Nokia changed its previous style and replaced the four numbers to name the mobile phone sequence with a new N series (N90, N91 and N70), and all three mobile phones were equipped with Symbian S60 system.
For the mobile phone industry, the N series pioneered the concept of a new generation of mobile products: smartphones.
At that time, the Symbian system had absolute dominance in the mobile phone industry, and Symbian at that time should not have imagined that its dominance would soon be gone.
The Symbian S60 is the operating system of Nokia's original smartphone, formerly known as Psion by David Potter.
In the same year, Microsoft released Windows Mobile 5.0, and Google acquired Android (Android) system developed by Andy Rubin, and shifted the application direction of Android system from digital cameras to smartphones.
The year of mobile phone disruption was 2007. This year, Apple released the original iPhone equipped with iOS, which was refreshing from design to operation, and this phone also laid the development direction of smart phones.
In the same year, Google and 84 manufacturers, developers and telecom operators set up an open handheld device alliance to develop the Android system, and then Google through open source, step by step to the world's largest mobile operating system.
Now everyone has seen the situation, basically Android and Apple are equally divided.