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
EPOC (operating system) new company was called—the telecommunications corporations each acquired a stake in Psion's EPOC operating system and other intellectual property. Symbian Ltd. changed the name of EPOC/EPOC32 to Symbian OS, which debuted in November 2000 on the Nokia 9210 Communicator smartphone. EPOC was developed at Psion, a software and mobile-device company founded in London in 1980. The company released its first pocket computer in 1984: an 8-bit device called the Psion Organiser. In 1986 they released a series of improved models under the Organiser II brand, but the 8-bit era was ending. Psion saw a need to develop a 16-bit operating