Comparison of the 4 Main Smartphone Operating Systems
Final Project Report
Student Name: Cy Gabriel
Module Code: 6MM006
Module Name: Individual Project
Project Title: Comparison of smartphones operating systems such as Apple 's iOS, Google 's Android OS, Microsoft 's Windows Phone OS, and RIM 's BlackBerry OS.
Module Leader Name: D.I. Beardsmore
Supervisor Name: Cheong Teck Kee
Submission Date: 25TH May 2012
Award Title: Bsc Computing
Department: School of Computing and Information Technology
Declaration
Presented in partial fulfilment of the assessment requirements for the above award.
This work or any part thereof has not previously been presented in any form to the University or to any other institutional body whether for assessment or for other purposes. Save for any express acknowledgements, references and/or bibliographies cited in the work. I confirm that the intellectual contents of the work are the result of my own efforts and of no other person.
It is acknowledged that the author of any project work shall own the copyright. However, by submitting such copyright work for assessment, the author grants to the University a perpetual royalty-free licence to do all or any of those things referred to in section 16(i) of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988. (viz: to copy work; to issue copies to the public; to perform or show or play the work in public; to broadcast the work or to make an adaptation of the work).
Student Name (Print): Cyprian Chinwo
Student Number: 1132204
2012-05-25 Signature: ……………………………………..……. Date: …………………
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Special thanks to the Almighty GOD for His grace and strength given to successfully begin and complete this project.
The author would like to give his sincere thanks to his supervisor, Mr. Cheong Teck Wee, whose support and guidance saw him through to the completion of the project, Also special
Student Name: Cy Gabriel
Module Code: 6MM006
Module Name: Individual Project
Project Title: Comparison of smartphones operating systems such as Apple 's iOS, Google 's Android OS, Microsoft 's Windows Phone OS, and RIM 's BlackBerry OS.
Module Leader Name: D.I. Beardsmore
Supervisor Name: Cheong Teck Kee
Submission Date: 25TH May 2012
Award Title: Bsc Computing
Department: School of Computing and Information Technology
Declaration
Presented in partial fulfilment of the assessment requirements for the above award.
This work or any part thereof has not previously been presented in any form to the University or to any other institutional body whether for assessment or for other purposes. Save for any express acknowledgements, references and/or bibliographies cited in the work. I confirm that the intellectual contents of the work are the result of my own efforts and of no other person.
It is acknowledged that the author of any project work shall own the copyright. However, by submitting such copyright work for assessment, the author grants to the University a perpetual royalty-free licence to do all or any of those things referred to in section 16(i) of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988. (viz: to copy work; to issue copies to the public; to perform or show or play the work in public; to broadcast the work or to make an adaptation of the work).
Student Name (Print): Cyprian Chinwo
Student Number: 1132204
2012-05-25 Signature: ……………………………………..……. Date: …………………
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Special thanks to the Almighty GOD for His grace and strength given to successfully begin and complete this project.
The author would like to give his sincere thanks to his supervisor, Mr. Cheong Teck Wee, whose support and guidance saw him through to the completion of the project, Also special
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