Android is so far proving relatively popular with tablet manufacturers despite nagging concerns about fragmentation of Android's operating system, user-interface and app store ecosystem.
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That's not surprising as it's been among the few where the software giant has controlled "the whole widget" -- choosing the processor, designing the hardware, and developing not only the operating system and user interface, but a host of licensing standards, services and infrastructure supporting Xbox Live.
Windows Phone 7.8 takes care of a number of bugs, tweaks parts of the operating system, and brings in the user interface elements from Windows Phone 8, notably the live tile system has been given the same flexibility as that of Windows Phone 8.
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But this digital Battle of Verdun is not the only challenge for Google as Mozilla is also launching its mobile operating system: FirefoxOS. To make a long story short, FirefoxOS is the equivalent of ChromeOS for smartphones: a light-weight mobile operating system where the user interface and all applications are web-based.
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The operating system is based in Modern User Interface, a unified approach to desktop, tablet and mobile.
For consumers tired of either, the Windows Phone user interface and its new live tile system looks and feels much different.
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Jetbox uses a well tested user interface to integrate a content management system, WYSIWYG editor, mailing list, website statistics, user registration, search engine, and a document manager.
For example, the same interface could be made adaptable to both an office environment and a moving vehicle, with the system dynamically making the necessary changes to user interface behavior as the environment changes.
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The NOR type needs to be ultrafast because it is directly connected to the central processing unit of a computer and stores its basic input-output system (the operating system used by the microchip that lies beneath user-interface operating systems, such as Windows).
Though most of its user interface is totally new, the Kin runs an operating system based on many of the same components that underpin Windows Phone 7 and the Zune HD.
The new user interface seems to work like a wiki, the simple collaboration system most famously used in Wikipedia, but it looks more like a Facebook or Pinterest in its prominent use of feeds and large visuals.
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For example, when Apple came out with its graphical user interface in the 1980s, Microsoft eventually crushed it with its Windows system.
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Another entrant, Jolla, says its 'Sailfish' platform is a second-generation operating system like BlackBerry's BB10 and is easy to use because it has a gesture-based user interface and is designed to avoid patent litigation.
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