Android is an operating system from Google that can be used for free by smartphone manufacturers. Include Samsung, Sony, HTC and LG make devices with Android in exchange for the Delivery of Google apps.
Android has captured most of the market in a few years time. iOS has 20 percent and Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10 may divide the rest. Is there still room for new systems
Tizen
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Samsung works together with Intel on its own operating system Tizen. So far, there is one true smartphone with this software. Since early this year, Samsung sells the Z1 in India.
The operating system looks very much like Touchwiz, proprietary software layer that puts Samsung Android. For example, the notification center, the menu and the institutions have almost the same design. The system works much the same.
The navigation is occasionally somewhat unclear. Sometimes a Tizen app a toolbar at the top with several example settings options, share or other functions. At other moments are the options under the classic burger menu. Three bars that show the top left open a menu
The home screen of the system does look slightly different. Instead of a screen full of small appicoontjes, Tizen shows over about three-quarters of the screen, a large widget and below it with two rows of apps.
The user can widgets on the upper part of the screen, wherein selected pitches may be from, for example weather, calendar, clock, or bookmarks from the browser. Browser which incidentally also resembles the version flour evert Samsung Android devices.
It is not possible for Tizen apps itself to add a widget. A NU.nl app widget so can not offer a news feed. In total there are a handful of widgets available and the options are quite limited.
Due to drag the bottom of the screen up, all apps will be shown. The number of apps is still a problem. There are over a thousand available and that is very limited.
It is possible to modify existing Android apps, but since there is only one smartphone with Tizen is available seem few developers that have an interest in .
First impression Tizen
So Tizen is very similar to Android, but with less apps. The layout of the home screen on Android would even largely after can be made by placing a widget on any screen. According to Samsung’s Tizen especially distinctive because it is energy efficient and works quickly at very cheap devices with low specifications.
However, Android is moving more and more in that direction. Thus was launched in September 2014 Android One, a customized version specifically for inexpensive smartphones
Firefox OS
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Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser, released in 2013 from Firefox OS for smartphones. Meanwhile, a major update has been made, which was also shown at MWC. Certain problems have been addressed in it.
So the first version had a useless empty home screen with just one search bar. Apps put on this page, was not possible. Moreover, many applications do not use offline and Firefox distinguished himself not Android or iOS.
The empty home screen has been replaced. By default, a user on a list of installed apps from. By that list should be scrolled vertically. Users may choose how many icons show them next to each other, but Mozilla recommends three to it. That means that the icons a lot bigger than Android.
The system supports apps in HTML5. This makes websites easy to deploy an app that makes it easier for developers. It also means that a appicoontje often simply refers to the mobile websites, such as YouTube.
A service like Whatsapp is not available because there is not simply a website can be converted. Another disadvantage is that many apps are still not offline use
In addition, Firefox OS has suffered from unclear navigation options:. Sometimes a folding menu is used in an app, but sit in other environments there icons in a bar at the bottom or right in a row at the top of the app.
The distinctive search function, which not only the Internet but also in applications is wanted, is now a screen that is left of the home screen. By dragging from left to right will open this page.
First impression Firefox OS
Firefox OS has not really know more than eighteen months to distinguish the biggest competitor Android. If selected for four icons next to each other, see the app list quite similar. Only vertical scrolling is new and the search function is really distinctive
Ubuntu
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Ubuntu is a normal operating system for desktops and laptops. The company, however, Canonical Ubuntu brings this year to smartphones at MWC and gave a first look at the software.
The operating system is completely different from what you’re used to from Android, iOS or Windows Phone. Ubuntu is like home screens use of so called ‘scopes. These are pages full of a kind of widgets you have to scroll vertical. It is possible to put together various scopes next and so there horizontally to browse through.
For example, scopes named Nearby (with information on restaurants, activities and important places in the neighborhood) and Today (with weather information, calendar appointments or important news). Developers can create their own scopes. Thus, there is a scope with a Instagramfeed displayed.
The scopes seem by others now being used primarily as a RSS reader with the most recent messages, photos or updates.
also possible to develop normal apps for Ubuntu and currently there are 500 to 1000, which mainly involves web apps so websites showing example Amazon or Facebook.
Dealing with Ubuntu for smartphones is getting used. The scopes can be set yourself through a rather complicated menu. Moreover, there is no home button. The user must drag the left edge of the screen to the right to open a menu on the side.
There are features such as the browser settings, photos and videos and a button to go to the home screen. That feels unnecessarily complicated. Anyhow crack Ubuntu on the capabilities and settings what cluttered.
So sometimes you have to move horizontally within a scope and sometimes vertically so that you sometimes accidentally go to the next scope. And if you just want to drag through the scopes, sometimes you accidentally call on the multitask screen. Namely that opens by dragging to the left of the right edge of the screen.
The back button in apps is sometimes displayed, but does not work. Then you must recall the left menu to return to the home screen. Moreover, the scopes open always at the spot where you left off last time with scrolling when you want to start maybe back to the top after half an hour.
First impression Ubuntu
Ubuntu is above all get used to, but if you get the hang of the controls, the system is quite complicated and therefore not suitable for directly for the average user. In addition, the distinctive scopes are actually a kind of Google Now cards that can sometimes be very handy for example, feeds and apps that constantly update, but for apps like Google Maps, games and word processing does not really work.
Ubuntu therefore still a scope that just all appicoontjes be displayed, allowing the system to lose its unique appearance
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