MR. SHULTZ
MOBILE OPERATING SYSTEMS WORKSHEET
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Go to the “What is a mobile operating system” link on the class web page and answer these questions. Complete BOTH SIDES!
1. What is just about every smartphone these days based on?
2. What combination of three components are many smartphones built on?
3. What each phone operating system does with hardware is very different. What does that affect?
4. What three toolkits let developers create an app for multiple platforms more easily?
5. Unless you jailbreak an iPhone to be able to sideload apps, you can only install apps that have done what?
6. What three things does Apple’s sometimes lengthy approval process check for?
7. What is the iPhone operating system based on?
8. Before iOS 4, what could run in the background on an iPhone?
9. On newer iPhones with iOS 4, what five things can run in the background?
10. What are five things that Android supports?
11. Whether you can upgrade to the latest version of Android depends on what three things?
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12. What Android phones get the fastest upgrades?
13. BlackBerry pioneered much of what we think of as standard on smartphones, including what four features?
14. Why do BlackBerrys have excellent battery life?
15. Why do all BlackBerry apps tend to look very similar?
16. What is an advantage of the BlackBerry App World store?
17. What version will Windows Phone soon be updated to?
18. What is the code name for the new version of Windows Phone?
19. Because Windows Phone can share information with your Xbox account, what could you do by playing a game on your phone?
20. What cast gloom over the Linux-based WebOS for Palm handsets?
21. What is an advantage of WebOS for developers?
22. The Anna and Belle updates to Symbian add what two modern features?
23. Why is it unlikely that Symbian will remain a significant player at least in the high-end smartphone market?