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Figure 2.2<br />

Figure 2.3<br />

Symbian OS OEMs have freedom to vary this basic specification quite widely. The Psion<br />

Revo has a smaller screen (480 × 160), and an in-built rechargeable battery instead of main<br />

and backup batteries. However, while it uses infrared for communication with other Symbian<br />

OS machines and compatible mobile phones, and a docking cradle for communication with<br />

PCs, the Psion Revo has no memory-card slot. The Psion Series 7 uses a 190 MHz<br />

StrongARM CPU, and has a 640 × 480 color screen. Modern devices such as the Nokia<br />

7650 include new devices such as Digital Cameras and support for Picture Messaging along<br />

with increased support for networking, in particular Personal Area Networks (PANs), through<br />

support for Bluetooth.<br />

OEMs also have flexibility in the way they manage the ROM and deliver built-in applications.<br />

Applications can be delivered on a CD-ROM with the devices, to be installed into RAM if the<br />

user wants them, instead of being built into ROM. There's room for ingenuity in managing<br />

the ROM itself: the devices have only a very small bootstrap loader in ROM. On cold boot,<br />

they load a ROM image from the memory card into the system RAM using as much RAM as

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