Timeline




Mobile operating system milestones mirror the development of mobile phones, PDAs, and smartphones:

Pre-1993edit

  • 1973–1993 – Mobile phones use embedded systems to control operation.

1993–1999edit

  • 1993
    • April – PenPoint OS by GO Corporation becomes available on the AT&T EO Personal Communicator.
    • August – Apple launches Newton OS running on their Newton series of portable computers.
  • 1994
    • March – Magic Cap OS by General Magic is first introduced on the Sony Magic Link PDA.
    • August – The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, has a touchscreen, email, and PDA features.
  • 1996
    • March – The Palm Pilot 1000 personal digital assistant is introduced with the Palm OS mobile operating system.
    • August – Nokia releases the Nokia 9000 Communicator running an integrated system based on the PEN/GEOS 3.0 OS from Geoworks.
  • 1997 – EPOC32 first appears on the Psion Series 5 PDA. Release 6 of EPOC32 will later be renamed to Symbian OS.
  • 1998 – Symbian Ltd. is formed as a joint venture by Psion, Ericsson, Motorola, and Nokia, Psion's EPOC32 OS becomes Symbian's EPOC operating system, and is later renamed to Symbian OS. Symbian's OS was used by those companies and several other major mobile phone brands, but especially Nokia.
  • 1999
    • June – Qualcomm's pdQ becomes the first smartphone with Palm OS.
    • October – Nokia S40 Platform is officially introduced along with the Nokia 7110, the first phone with T9 Predictive text input and a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) browser for accessing specially formatted Internet data.

2000sedit

  • 2000 – The Ericsson R380 is released with EPOC32 Release 5, marking the first use on a phone of what's to become known as Symbian OS (as of Release 6).
  • 2001
    • June – Nokia's Symbian Series 80 platform is first released on the Nokia 9210 Communicator This is the first phone running an OS branded as Symbian, and the first phone using that OS that allows user installation of additional software.
    • September – Qualcomm's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) platform on their REX real-time operating system (RTOS) is first released on the Kyocera QCP-3035.
  • 2002
    • March
      • BlackBerry releases its first smartphone, running Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME).
      • UIQ is first released, at v2.0, on Symbian OS, and becomes available later in the year on the Sony Ericsson P800, the successor to the Ericsson R380.
    • June
      • Microsoft's first Windows CE (Pocket PC) smartphones are introduced.
      • Nokia's Symbian Series 60 (S60) platform is released with the Nokia 7650, Nokia's first phone with a camera and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). S60 would form the basis of the OS on most of Nokia's smartphones until 2011, when they adopted Microsoft's Windows Phone 7. S60 was also used on some phones from Samsung and others, and later by Sony Ericsson after the consolidation of different Symbian UI variants in 2008.
    • October – The Danger Hiptop (T-Mobile Sidekick in U.S.) is first released by Danger, Inc., running DangerOS.
  • 2003 – Motorola introduces first linux based cellphone Motorola A760 base on Linux MontaVista distribution.
  • 2005
    • May – Microsoft announces Windows Mobile 5.0.
    • November – Nokia introduces Maemo OS on the first, small Internet tablet, the N770, with a 4.13" screen.
  • 2007
    • January – Apple's iPhone with iOS (named "iPhone OS" for its first three releases) is introduced as a "widescreen iPod," "mobile phone," and "Internet communicator".
    • February – Microsoft announces Windows Mobile 6.0.
    • May – Palm announces the Palm Foleo, a "Mobile Companion" device similar to a subnotebook computer, running a modified Linux kernal and relying on a companion Palm Treo smartphone to send and retrieve mail, as well as provide data connectivity when away from WiFi. Palm canceled Foleo development on September 4, 2007 after facing public criticism.
    • June - World’s very first iPhone is released in the United States.
    • November – Open Handset Alliance (OHA) is established, led by Google with 34 members (HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Samsung, LG, etc.)
  • 2008
    • February – LiMo Foundation announces the first phones running the LiMo mobile Linux distribution, from Motorola, NEC, Panasonic Mobile, and Samsung, released later in the year. The LiMo Foundation later became the Tizen Association and LiMo was subsumed by Tizen.
    • June – Nokia becomes the sole owner of Symbian Ltd. The Symbian Foundation was then formed to co-ordinate the future development of the Symbian platform among the corporations using it, in a manner similar to the Open Handset Alliance with Android. Nokia remained the major contributor to Symbian's code.
    • July – Apple releases iPhone OS 2 with the iPhone 3G, making available Apple's App Store.
    • October – OHA releases Android (based on Linux kernel) 1.0 with the HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1) as the first Android phone.
    • November – Symbian^1, the Symbian Foundation's touch-specific S60-based platform (equivalent to S60 5th edition) is first released on Nokia's first touchscreen Symbian phone, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, with a resistive screen and a stylus. Symbian^1 being derived from S60 meant that support for UIQ disappeared and no further devices using UIQ were released.
  • 2009
    • January
      • Intel announces Moblin 2, specifically created for netbooks that run the company's Atom processor. In April 2009 Intel turned Moblin over to the Linux Foundation.
      • Palm introduces webOS with the Palm Pre (released in June). The new OS is not backwards compatible with their previous Palm OS.
    • February
      • Palm announces that no further devices with Palm OS are going to be released by the company. (The last was the Palm Centro, released October 14, 2007.)
      • Microsoft announces Windows Mobile 6.5, an "unwanted stopgap" update to Windows Mobile 6.1 intended to bridge the gap between version 6.1 and the then yet-to-be released Windows Mobile 7 (later canceled in favor of Windows Phone 7). The first devices running it appeared in late October 2009.
    • May – DangerOS 5.0 becomes available, based on NetBSD.
    • June – Apple releases iPhone OS 3 with the iPhone 3GS.
    • November – Nokia releases the Nokia N900, its first and only smartphone running the Maemo OS intended for "handheld computers...with voice capability," while stating that they remain focused on Symbian S60 as their smartphone OS. (Nokia had previously released three Mobile Internet devices running Maemo, without cellular network connectivity.)

2010sedit

2010edit

  • February
    • MeeGo is announced, a mobile Linux distribution merging Maemo from Nokia and Moblin from Intel and Linux Foundation, to be hosted by Linux Foundation. MeeGo is not backwards compatible with any previous operating system.
    • Samsung introduces the Bada OS and shows the first Bada smartphone, the Samsung S8500. It's later released in May 2010.
  • April
    • Apple releases the iPad (first generation) with iPhone OS 3.2. This is the first version of the OS to support tablet computers. For its next major version (4.0) iPhone OS will be renamed iOS.
    • HP acquires Palm in order to use webOS in multiple new products, including smartphones, tablets, and printers, later stating their intent to use it as the universal platform for all their devices.
  • May – Microsoft Kin phone line with KIN OS (based on Windows CE and a "close cousin" to Windows Phone) become available.
  • June – Apple releases iOS 4, renamed from iPhone OS, with the iPhone 4.
  • July – Microsoft Kin phones and KIN OS are discontinued.
  • September
    • Apple releases a variant of iOS powering the new 2nd generation Apple TV.
    • Symbian^3 is first released on the Nokia N8. This would be Nokia's last flagship device running Symbian (though not their last Symbian phone), before switching to Windows Phone 7 for future flagship phones.
    • The Danger Hiptop line and DangerOS are discontinued as a result of Microsoft's acquisition of Danger, Inc. in 2008.
  • November
    • Nokia assumes full control over Symbian as the Symbian Foundation disintegrates.
    • Windows Phone OS is released on Windows Phone 7 phones by HTC, LG, Samsung, and Dell. The new OS is not backwards compatible with the prior Windows Mobile OS.

2011edit

  • February
    • Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), the first version to officially support tablet computers, is released on the Motorola Xoom.
    • Nokia abandons the Symbian OS and announces that it would use Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 as its primary smartphone platform, while Symbian would be gradually wound down.
  • April – BlackBerry Tablet OS, based on QNX Neutrino is released on the BlackBerry PlayBook.
  • July
    • Mozilla announces their Boot to Gecko project (later named Firefox OS) to develop an OS for handheld devices emphasizing standards-based Web technologies, similar to webOS.
    • webOS 3.0, the first version to support tablet computers, is released on the HP TouchPad.
  • August – HP announces that webOS device development and production lines would be halted. The last HP webOS version, 3.0.5, is released on January 12, 2012.
  • September
    • MeeGo is introduced with the limited-release Nokia N9, Nokia's first and only consumer device to use the OS. (A small number of the Nokia N950, a MeeGo phone available only to developers, were released in mid-2011.)
    • After Nokia's abandonment of MeeGo, Intel and the Linux Foundation announce a partnership with Samsung to launch Tizen, shifting their focus from MeeGo (Intel and Linux Foundation) and Bada (Samsung) during 2011 and 2012.
  • October
    • Apple releases iOS 5 with the iPhone 4S, integrating the Siri voice assistant.
    • The Mer project is announced, based on an ultra-portable core for building products, composed of Linux, HTML5, QML, and JavaScript, which is derived from the MeeGo codebase.
  • November – Fire OS, a fork of the Android operating system, is released by Amazon.com on the Kindle Fire tablet.

2012edit

  • May – Nokia releases the Nokia 808 PureView, later confirmed (in January 2013) to be the last Symbian smartphone. This phone was followed by a single last Symbian software update, "Nokia Belle, Feature Pack 2," later in 2012.
  • July
    • Finnish start-up Jolla, formed by former Nokia employees, announces that MeeGo's community-driven successor Mer would be the basis of their new Sailfish smartphone OS.
    • Mozilla announces that the project formerly named Boot to Gecko (which is built atop an Android Linux kernel using Android drivers and services; however it uses no Java-like code of Android) is now Firefox OS (since discontinued) and has several handset OEMs on board.
  • August – Samsung announces they won't ship further phones using their Bada OS, instead focusing on Windows Phone 8 and Android.
  • September – Apple releases iOS 6 with the iPhone 5.

2013edit

  • January – BlackBerry releases their new operating system for smartphones, BlackBerry 10, with their Q10 and Z10 smartphones. BlackBerry 10 is not backwards compatible with the BlackBerry OS used on their previous smartphones.
  • February – HP sells webOS to LG.
  • September – Apple releases iOS 7 with the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C.
  • October
    • Canonical announces Ubuntu Touch, a version of the Linux distribution expressly designed for smartphones. The OS is built on the Android Linux kernel, using Android drivers and services, but does not use any of the Java-like code of Android.
    • Google releases Android KitKat 4.4.
  • November – Jolla releases Sailfish OS on the Jolla smartphone.

2014edit

  • February
    • Microsoft releases Windows Phone 8.1
    • Nokia introduces their Nokia X platform OS as an Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean fork on the Nokia X family of smartphones. Similar to Amazon.com's Fire OS, it replaces Google's apps and services with ones from Nokia (such as HERE Maps, Nokia Xpress and MixRadio, and Nokia's own app store) and Microsoft (such as Skype and Outlook), with a user interface that mimics the Windows Phone UI. After the acquisition of Nokia's devices unit, Microsoft announced in July 2014 that no more Nokia X smartphones would be introduced, marking the end of the platform just a few months later.
  • August – The Samsung SM-Z9005 Z is the first phone released running Tizen, with v2.2.1 of the OS.
  • September
    • Apple releases iOS 8 with the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.
    • BlackBerry releases BlackBerry 10 version 10.3 with integration with the Amazon Appstore
  • November – Google releases Android 5.0 "Lollipop"

2015edit

  • February – Google releases Android 5.1 "Lollipop".
  • April
    • LG releases the LG Watch Urbane LTE smartwatch running "LG Wearable Platform OS" based on webOS. This is a version of their Android Wear OS-based LG Watch Urbane, with added LTE connectivity.
    • watchOS, based on iOS, is released by Apple with the Apple Watch.
  • September
    • Apple releases iOS 9 with the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, iPad Pro, and iPad Mini 4, plus watchOS 2. tvOS 9 is also made distinct from iOS, with its own App Store, launching with Apple TV 4th generation.
    • Google releases Android 6.0 "Marshmallow".
  • October – BlackBerry announces that there are no plans to release new APIs and software development kits for BlackBerry 10, and future updates would focus on security and privacy enhancements only.
  • November – Microsoft releases Windows 10 Mobile.

2016edit

  • February – Microsoft releases the Lumia 650, their last Windows 10 Mobile phone before discontinuing all mobile hardware production the following year.
  • July – The BlackBerry Classic, the last device to date running a BlackBerry OS is discontinued. While BlackBerry Limited claimed to still be committed to the BlackBerry 10 operating system, they have since only shipped Android devices after releasing the BlackBerry Priv, their first Android smartphone in November 2015.
  • August
    • Google posts the Fuchsia source code on GitHub.
    • Google releases Android 7.0 "Nougat".
  • September – Apple releases iOS 10 with the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, and watchOS 3 with the Apple Watch Series 1 and 2.
  • November
    • Tizen releases Tizen 3.0.
    • BlackBerry releases BlackBerry 10 version 10.3.3.

2017edit

  • April
    • Samsung officially launches Android-based Samsung Experience custom firmware starting with version 8.1 on Samsung Galaxy S8.
  • May
    • Samsung announces Tizen 4.0 at Tizen Developer Conference 2017.
  • August
    • Google releases Android 8.0 "Oreo".
  • September
    • Apple releases iOS 11 with the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus and iPhone X, and watchOS 4 with the Apple Watch Series 3.
  • October
    • Microsoft announces that Windows 10 Mobile development is going into maintenance mode only, ending the release of any new features or functionality due to lack of market penetration and resultant lack of interest from app developers, and releases the final major update to it, the "Fall Creators Update."
    • Cherry Mobile release CherryOS (Cherry Mobile's OS) based on Android

2018edit

  • February
    • Samsung releases Samsung Experience 9.0 based on Android "Oreo" 8.0 globally to Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+.
  • March
    • Google and partners officially launches Android Go (based on Android "Oreo" 8.1 but tailored for low-end devices) with Nokia 1, Alcatel 1X, ZTE Tempo Go, General Mobile 8 Go, Micromax Bharat Go and Lava Z50.
    • Google releases Android "9" as a developer preview.
  • April
    • Microsoft release Windows 10 Version 1803 "April 2018 Update".
  • May
    • Huawei release LiteOS version 2.1.
  • August
    • Google releases Android 9.0 "Pie".
    • UBPorts released Ubuntu Touch OTA-14, upgrading the OS based on the Canonical's long-term support version of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus".
    • Xiaomi officially introduces MIUI for POCO for their Poco series smartphone.
    • Samsung officially introduces Tizen 4.0 with the release of Samsung Galaxy Watch series.
  • September
    • Apple releases iOS 12 with the iPhone XS and XS Max, and watchOS 5 with Apple Watch Series 4.
    • Huawei releases EMUI 9.0.
  • October
    • Microsoft releases Windows 10 Version 1809 "October 2018 Update".
  • November
    • Samsung announces the One UI as the latest version of the Samsung Experience UI.
    • Amazon released Fire OS 6 to supported Fire HD devices.

2019edit

  • January
    • Microsoft announces that support for Windows 10 Mobile would end on December 10, 2019, and that Windows 10 Mobile users should migrate to iOS or Android phones.
  • June
    • Apple announces iOS 13, watchOS 6, and iPadOS as a distinct variant of iOS.
  • August
    • Huawei announced the EMUI 10 under beta release.
  • September
    • Apple releases iOS 13 with the iPhone 11 series, watchOS 6 with Apple Watch Series 5, and iPadOS with the 7th generation iPad.
    • Google releases Android 10.
    • The Librem 5, the first phone running PureOS, is released.
  • October
  • Samsung announces the One UI 2.0 as the latest version of their Galaxy Smartphone and Smartwatch UI.
  • November
    • Microsoft release the Windows November 10, 2019 Update.

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