Mobile phones use embedded systems to control operation.
The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, has a touchscreen, email and PDA features.
Palm Pilot 1000 personal digital assistant is introduced with the Palm OS mobile operating system.
First Windows CE Handheld PC devices are introduced.
Nokia S40 OS is officially introduced along with the Nokia 7110
Symbian becomes the first modern mobile OS on a smartphone with the launch of the Ericsson R380.
The Kyocera 6035 is the first smartphone with Palm OS.
Microsoft's first Windows CE (Pocket PC) smartphones are introduced.
BlackBerry releases its first smartphone.
Nokia introduces Maemo OS on the first internet tablet N770.
Apple iPhone with iOS is introduced as an iPhone, "mobile phone" and "internet communicator.
Open Handset Alliance (OHA) formed by Google, HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Samsung, LG, etc
OHA releases Android 1.0 with the HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1) as the first Android phone.
Palm introduces webOS with the Palm Pre. By 2012 webOS devices were no longer sold.
Samsung announces the Bada OS with the introduction of the Samsung S8500.
Windows Phone OS phones are released but are not compatible with the previous Windows Mobile OS.
MeeGo the first mobile Linux, combining Maemo and Moblin, is introduced with the Nokia N9, a collaboration of Nokia, Intel and Linux Foundation
Samsung, Intel and the Linux Foundation announced that their efforts will shift from Bada, MeeGo to Tizen during 2011 and 2012.
Mer project was announced, centered around an ultra-portable Linux + HTML5/QML/JavaScript Core for building products with, derived from the MeeGo codebase
Mozilla announced in July 2012 that the project previously known as "Boot to Gecko" was now Firefox OS and had several handset OEMs on board.
Canonical announced Ubuntu Touch, a version of the Linux distribution expressly designed for smartphones. The OS is built on the Android Linux kernel, using Android drivers, but does not use any of the Java-like code of Android.
BlackBerry released their new operating system for smartphones and tablets, BlackBerry 10.
