Symbian OS
Key features of Symbian OS are
- Suite of application engines.
Contacts, schedule, messaging, browsing, utility and system control; appointments and business cards; integrated APIs for data management, text, clipboard and graphics.
- Browsing.
A WAP stack is provided with support for WAP 1.2.1 .
- Messaging.
Multimedia messaging, enhanced messaging and SMS; Internet mail; attachments; fax.
- Multimedia.
Audio and video support for recording, playback and streaming; image conversion.
- Graphics.
Direct access to screen and keyboard for high performance; graphics accelerator API.
- Communications protocols.
Wide-area networking stacks including TCP/IP and WAP, personal area networking support including infrared, Bluetooth wireless technology and USB.
- Mobile telephony.
GSM circuit switched voice and data and packet-based data; CDMA circuit switched voice, data and packet-based data; SIM, RUIM and UICC Toolkit.
- International support.
Conforms to the Unicode Standard version 3.0
- Data synchronization.
SyncML; PC-based synchronization over serial, Bluetooth wireless technology, Infrared and USB.
- Security.
Full encryption and certificate management, secure protocols, WIM framework and certificate-based application installation.
- Developing for Symbian OS.
Content development options include: C++, Java MIDP 2.0 and PersonalJava 1.1.1a, and WAP.
- User inputs.
Full keyboard, numeric mobile phone keypad, voice, handwriting recognition and predictive text input.