COS (operating system) the smart phone market when COS was introduced and Apple most of the remaining market share. COS looks very similar to Android and has its own Application Portal much like Android Market and iOS App Store. The Linux kernel is GPLv2 and the COS framework is closed source and licensed by the originators. The COS Core operating system is based on the Linux kernel and can be seen as a Linux distribution, in the same way as the Android operating system. According to the official statements, COS supports HTML5 based applications and Java based applications. COS (operating system) COS is
Windows Phone 8 WP8, Kantar reported in October 2013 that Windows Phone grew its market share substantially to 4.8% in the United States and 10.2% in Europe. Similar statistics from Gartner for Q3 2013 indicated that Windows Phone's global market share increased 123% from the same period in 2012 to 3.6%. In Q1 2014 IDC reported that global market share of Windows Phone has dropped to 2.7%. Windows Phone 8 Windows Phone 8 is the second generation of the Windows Phone mobile operating system from Microsoft. It was released on October 29, 2012, and like its predecessor, it features a flat user interface