Mobile Application Platforms & Operating Systems - 4th Edition

Table of Contents

• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• OPERATING SYSTEMS
• Introduction
• Mobile applications' OS technology overview
  • Applications' OS platform components
• Mobile handset technology fragmentation
  • Market segmentation
  • Mobile OS platform standardisation
    • Challenges and advantages
    • Operator choices
• Different approaches in building mobile application OSs and platforms
  • OS architecture
    • Integration
    • Modularity
  • Application execution environment selection
• Mobile OS hardware requirements
  • The Bill of Materials
  • The impact of chipset technology
    • SiP to SoC: single chip development
    • The continued benefits of two separate OSs
• Real-time operating systems for baseband operations
  • RTOS market position
• Leading RTOS developers
  • ENEA' s OSE
    • Overview
    • Product
    • Outlook
  • Mentor Graphics Nucleus RTOS
    • Overview
    • Product
    • Outlook
• Mobile OS market and segmentation
  • Proprietary OS
  • Open architecture OS
  • Open source OS
• Leading open architecture OS vendors
  • Symbian
    • Overview, OS development and support in the mobile market
    • OS development and support
    • Symbian roadmap
    • Symbian strategy in the mobile phone market
• Microsoft
  • Overview, OS development and support in the mobile market
  • Applications development
  • Microsoft roadmap
  • Microsoft strategy in the mobile phone market
• Linux in the mobile market
  • Linux market overview
  • The business case for mobile Linux
    • The reality of mobile Linux
  • Standardisation initiatives for mobile Linux
    • LiMo Foundation
    • LiPS Forum
    • GMAE Initiative
    • OHA
• Commercial Linux segmentation
  • Montavista
    • Overview
    • Product
    • Outlook
  • Wind River
    • Overview
    • Product
    • Outlook
  • Access Linux Platform
    • Overview
    • Product
    • Outlook
  • Trolltech
    • Overview
    • Product
    • Outlook
  • Android
    • Overview
    • Product
    • Outlook

• USER INTERFACES (UIs), On-Device-Portals (ODPs), BROWSERS AND Mobile Device Management (MDM)
• The user interface (UI) and On-Device-Portal (ODP)
  • Device customisation, personalisation and the role of UI
  • Ease of use, applications and service discovery
  • Dynamic UIs and Active Idle Screens
  • Profile of the leading players of UI and Home Screen designers
• Browser technologies
  • Market analysis of the microbrowser market
  • Profile of the leading vendors
  • The microbrowser market and challenges
  • Challenges facing browser developers
• Non-Java application platforms - competing or complementary technologies?
  • Qualcomm' s Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW)
  • BREW technology and roadmap
  • In-Fusio: ExEn engine
  • Nokia S60
  • UIQ
• Different types of OTA mobile device management
  • Firmware/software management over the air (FOTA)
  • Configuration and settings management
  • Diagnostics management
  • Other Mobile Device management applications
  • Interoperability and standardisation initiatives
  • What OTA MDM means to operators and device vendors
  • Profile of the leading vendors

• WIRELESS JAVA TECHNOLOGY
• The Java platform
  • Java Platform, Micro Edition
  • Connected Limited Devices Configuration (CLDC)
  • Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP)
  • Connected Device Configuration (CDC)
  • Optional Java ME extensions
    • IMS Services API
    • SIP API for Java ME
    • Mobile Media API and Advanced Multimedia Supplements
    • DRM API for Java ME
    • Network Mobility and Mobile Data
• DoCoMo Java (DoJa).
  • DoJa technology specification
  • DoJa versus MIDP
  • Java i-mode outside Japan
• Java acceleration and processing
  • Impact of Java on processing
  • Java Instruction Set Accelerators
    • ARM: Jazelle.
  • Java support by silicon vendors
    • Texas Instruments
  • Reference designs and wireless modules
• Implementing Java in the handset
  • Overview of compilation methods
    • Just in time
    • Ahead-of-time
    • Dynamic adaptive compilation
  • Multi-tasking in the mobile Java environments
  • Java implementation, market development
    • In-house versus outsourcing
    • Sun Microsystems: CLDC HotSpot Implementation
    • Aplix: JBlend
    • Esmertec: Jbed
    • Tao Group: Intent
  • Java implementation

• MAPOS HANDSET MARKETS
• Introduction to the mobile handset market
  • Mobile handset market review
  • Handset market forecasts
  • Vendor market share
  • Links with OS and application platforms providers
• MAPOS handset market
  • Java handsets
    • Market drivers
    • Java handset forecasts
  • DoJa handsets
    • Market drivers
    • DoJa handset forecasts
  • BREW handsets
    • Market drivers
    • BREW handset forecasts
  • Adobe Flash Lite handsets
    • Market drivers
    • Adobe Flash Lite handset forecasts
  • Other third party application platforms
    • Motorola' s Ajar
    • Openwave MIDAS
    • Infusio' s Ex-En & EGE
    • Mophun
  • OS handsets market
    • Market segmentation of OSs
    • The evolution of the mobile OS industry
    • Market forecasts by OS type
    • Open OS forecasts by region.
  • Major vendor strategies
    • Nokia
    • Motorola
    • Samsung
    • LG Electronics
    • Sony Ericsson
    • Kyocera
    • NEC
    • Research In Motion (RIM)
    • High Tech Computer Corporation (HTC)
    • Palm Inc
    • Apple

• MOBILE APPLICATIONS MARKET
• Mobile data and services
  • Mobile traffic
  • Mobile data revenue by application
• MAPOS application analysis
  • Definitions
  • Growth trends
  • BREW versus Java - competitive analysis
• Other application platforms
• Key applications
  • Games
  • Images
  • Music
  • Infotainment
  • Person-to-person (P2P) messaging
  • Browsing
  • M-commerce
  • Mobile office / enterprise applications
  • Location based services
• Wireless application forecasts
  • Java application forecasts
    • Java users
    • Java application data traffic
    • Java application revenues
  • BREW application forecasts
    • BREW users
    • BREW application data traffic
    • BREW application revenues

• MOBILE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY VALUE CHAIN
• The evolving value chain
• Market fragmentation
  • Knock-on effects of market segmentation
  • The current situation of the mobile market
  • Write once; run anywhere - concept or reality?
• Interoperability issues and standardisation
  • Java Technology for Wireless Industry (JTWI) JSR185
  • The Java Mobile Service Architecture Initiative (MSA)
    • Specification for Mobile Service Architecture for CLDC and CDC configurations
  • The Korean Wireless Internet Standardisation Forum and the WIPI initiative
  • Open Mobile Terminal Platform Forum (OMTP)
  • The Mobile Web Initiative of W3C
  • Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)
    • Open Mobile Architecture
    • Open Mobile Interoperability Working Group (OMA IOP)
• Application development and design
  • User experience and performance
  • Application portability limitations
  • Application design
  • The development process
• Content testing and qualification process
  • Unified Testing Initiative: Java Verified
• Mobile Digital Rights Management (DRM)
  • Overview
  • DRM standardisation
  • DRM and the Open Mobile Alliance
  • DRM and Java applications
  • DRM and content providers
  • DRM and network operators
    • Europe
    • North America and Asia Pacific
• Application distribution
  • Developer initiatives
  • Broker services
  • Publishers
    • Case study: Tira Wireless
    • Case study: Mobile Distillery

Contents correct at time of printing