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
Smartphone U.S. and Japan, Nokia was seeing success with its smartphones based on Symbian, originally developed by Psion for their personal organisers, and it was the most popular smartphone OS in Europe during the middle to late 2000s. Initially, Nokia's Symbian smartphones were focused on business with the Eseries, similar to Windows Mobile and BlackBerry devices at the time. From 2006 onwards, Nokia started producing consumer-focused smartphones, popularized by the entertainment-focused Nseries. Until 2010, Symbian was the world's most widely used smartphone operating system. In the 2000s, it was common for smartphones to have a physical T9 numeric keypad or QWERTY