Design And Implementation Of Symbian OS Based "Shining Ring" System

Along with the rapid development of mobile technology and information technology, the traditional mobile phone cannot satisfy the advanced requirements of their users anymore. The appearance of the smartphone, made a revolution on mobile communication applications. Nowadays, the sale of smartphone grows rapidly, and the big smartphone market has been verified. Users can install new softwares in their smart phones at will, and enjoy the services from these softwares. Based on this, many kinds of different mobile value-added business emerged.Mobile value-added business is now an attractive good domain. Its users grow rapidly and new business opened increasingly, the market has a promising prospect. Mobile value-added business possesses the three key features: high extra-value, high and new technology, and high user experience. As the smartphone get popular, mobile value-added business will enter into a new stage of development.This article is mainly about the "Shining Ring" system's design and development. "Shining Ring" system is a new kind of mobile value-added business, and offers a new kind of service. We hope it could do some contribute to the market. "Shining Ring" system is made of three parts: client software, server, and the web site. The client software is based on the most popular Symbian OS on smartphone. The web site cooperates with the client software to offer services. The server communicates with the client software and provides data service for it.This article firstly introduces the background of this project and the situation of the mobile value-added business market, then tells something about the Symbian OS related knowledge, its architecture, and the essential knowledge of developing smartphone software on it. Secondly, this article details out the design of "Shining Ring" system's whole architecture and its communication protocol, then describes in detail of the system's three parts' development and functionality. Finally, make a sum up about the existing problems in system and proposed improvement suggestions.