What is Saipan?

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Saipan, with its blue sky, turquoise waters and white beaches, is a holiday resort in the western Pacific Ocean, bordering the Philippines in the west. There are 14 islands in the Northern Mariana Islands. Saipan and Tianning Island are the southernmost islands, and they are also the most frequently visited islands by tourists.

Back to 1500, Chamorros appeared in Saipan, Tianning and Rota. Dating back to 438, Portuguese Magellan discovered these Chamorro territories in the Pacific Ocean-Saipan Island, Tianning Island and other 14 islands. Blue sky, neon sunset and natural beaches are the Northern Mariana Islands.

There are many undulating coral reefs around Saipan, and the refraction of sunlight makes the seawater appear light green, green and dark blue. The unfathomable deep blue is the deepest trench in the world-Mariana Trench, which is over 65438+100000 meters. There are mountains from the center of the island to the east coast, and many places have not yet been developed. Tourists can rent off-road jeeps for adventure travel. In the middle of the night, I casually walked into a small bar by the sea, and the sky was full of stars. The singer sang deja vu love songs behind me, drank several glasses of beer, and couldn't wait until dawn. ...

Diving in Saipan is very famous. There are more than 20 diving spots on the whole island, and the seawater viewing angle can reach 30 meters. Put on a diving goggles and plunge into the sea, and you will be surprised to find yourself in a fairy tale world: countless tropical fish swim around, and live starfish and sea corals are within reach.

In addition to the crystal clear, cool and charming beaches, Tianning Island also has the legendary underwater volcanic lava of Taga Si Tong and the magnificent spray coast. Every day at dawn and sunset, the gentle sunshine soothes the vast and quiet ocean, and the picturesque scenery is in front of us. And its sad past after World War II also added a sense of mystery to this island.

2. History

Saipan is an island built by immigrants from the Philippines and other places around 5000 BC. The original beauty of Saipan and Mariana Islands was not known to the world until the famous navigator Magellan 152 1 traveled around the world. 1565 After the Spanish landed on the island, they declared permanent possession as their territory and named it "Mariana" after the Queen of Spain. They ruled for nearly 400 years. 1898, Germany bought the island from Spain and ruled it for less than 20 years. 19 14 After the defeat of World War I, Germany took it. The Japanese planted a lot of sugar cane in Mariana Islands. At that time, a large number of immigrants from China, South Asia and South Korea forcibly moved and developed a large number of sugarcane-growing farms. During the Second World War, the Japanese and American forces waged a fierce war for the island. The ruins that proved the war situation at that time have now been developed into characteristic tourist attractions. After Japan's defeat, the United Nations entrusted the Northern Mariana Islands, Micronesia Islands, Palau and Marshall Islands to the United States Government for 40 years (1945- 1985). After the end of the trusteeship period, Micronesia, Palau and Marshall Islands were established as independent countries, while the Northern Mariana Islands were established in 6544 under the planning of the American government. Therefore, starting from 1986, all residents on the island have American citizen passports, and social welfare cards (that is, tax cards) are managed by California. Because it is managed by the local government, the entry and exit of the Northern Mariana Islands does not require a visa from the US embassy or consulate, but is handled by the local immigration bureau. Any baby born locally can apply for an American passport and become an American citizen.

3. Other information

According to CNN, in recent years, many well-known clothing brands have taken advantage of Saipan's unique geographical location to introduce China workers to produce and process clothing products on the island, marked with the words "MADE IN U.S.A". The working environment of workers is hard, and their wages are far lower than the average level of ordinary factory workers in the United States. Some intermediaries attract workers to the island under the banner of "working in the United States" and charge huge agency fees. Many staff members of American human rights organizations called for federal legislation to intervene.

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Chinese translation of symbian mobile phone operating system

Please refer to symbian for a detailed description of this entry.

The versions are Symbian 6.06. 1 7.07.0s, 8.08.1A8.1B9.19.29.3.

S60 UI has first edition, second edition, second edition PACK 1, second edition PACK2, second edition PACK3, third edition, third edition PACK 1, PACK2.

Symbian OS corresponding to series 60:

Symbian OS 6. 1

Symbian OS 7.0s, 2nd Edition of Series 60

60 series second edition package 1 Symbian OS 7.0s

60 Series Second Edition Suite 2 Symbian Operating System 8.0a

60 Series Second Edition Suite 3 Symbian Operating System 8. 1a

Symbian operating system 9. 1

60 series third edition PACK 1 Symbian OS 9.2

60 series third edition PACK2 Symbian operating system 9.3

Symbian Operating System 9.4, 5th Edition, Series 60

S60 UI was 176*208 before the third edition. The third edition defines 176*208, 320*240 and 352*4 16.

At present, UIQ is common in version 2.0(nokia6708)2. 1 (Sony Ericsson P900) with symbian7.0a, and version 3.0 (Sony Ericsson m600) with symbian 9. 1.

The resolution of UIQ2.0.1is 208*320. Version 3.0 currently has a M600 with a resolution of 320*240.

The first edition of Series 60 includes the following features:

Java 2 platform, mini version (including J2ME API):

Mobile information driver (MIDP) 1.0

Limited connection drive configuration (CLDC) 1.0

Wireless short message program interface (JSR- 120)

Mobile Media Interface (JSR- 135)

XHTML/WML browsing

Multimedia short message service

The 2nd Edition of Series 60 includes the following functions:

XHTML browsing based on TCP/IP: MMS multimedia short message service supports HTTP transmission and multimedia language (SMIL) support;

Calendar is synchronized with the weather; Digital synchronous clock.

The 2nd Edition of Series 60 includes the following functions:

Location API (including landmark API, landmark UI APIs, landmark

Search API, BLID application API)

Web service API (including WS connection API, WS description API, WS.

Manager API, XML extension API)

SIP APIs

S60 OMA DRM v2 API

OMA data synchronization 1.2 API

MMF DRM API

Background light control API

Instant messaging API

IM application startup API

Bluetooth 1.2 support

Exif API

Find project API

Attachment API

Security API (JSR 177)

Java location API (JSR 179)

Advanced Application Programming Interface (JSR 180)

Wireless message API (WMA) 2.0 (JSR 205)

Scalable 2D vector graphics API (JSR 226)

Advanced multimedia supplement-including 3D& music (JSR 234)

Basic functions of the first edition of Series 60:

Personal information management; Calendar, phone book, photo album, directory and file management application synchronized with PC;

Connection: Support USB, Bluetooth and IrDA protocols.

SMS service: SMS service with less than 450 bytes based on GSM transmission.

E-mail: supports IMAP4, POP3, SMTP, MIME2 and MIME 2. Support GRPS.

Others: Chinese support, PC connection software, plug-ins, RealOne player, XHTML mobile protocol.

Basic functions of 60 series second edition:

Multimedia: camera, image browsing, RealOne player, multimedia application,

Personal account management: support credit card payment through the Internet.

File management: Allows users to create, delete and move files or directories.

Application software management:

Personal themes: include UI themes, such as changing backgrounds and icons.

Others: HTTP support, advanced MMS service, SMIL protocol support, recording function.

Basic functions of 60 series third edition:

Macromedia Flash, music playback, OMA DRM 2.0, stand-alone applications, desktop themes, new content formats, and support MS ActiveSync, Windows Media Player mpeg and MS DRM encoding; Synchronization 1.2, IMAP/POP, OMA email notification, OMA data synchronization, email detection. On June 24, 2008, it was acquired by Nokia to build an open smartphone operating platform. Saipan collaborator

The 5th Edition of Series 60 supports touch operation.

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[Edit this paragraph ]Symbian's new Jianghu

Many people didn't expect that 10 years later, Saipan's separatist regime lasted for ten years, and it ended only with Nokia's repeated efforts.

Symbian was founded in 1998. In addition to Nokia and Samsung, other shareholders of Symbian include Sony Ericsson, Ericsson, Panasonic and Siemens, which hold shares of Symbian 15.6%, 13. 1%, 10.5% and 4.5% respectively.

As early as four years ago, after Motorola withdrew from Saipan, Nokia tried to take over the remaining shares of Saipan, but Nokia's plan was not supported by other shareholders and was finally stopped by Ericsson.

The idea of "great unification" was finally realized in 2008. On June 24th, 2008, Nokia announced that it would acquire a 52% stake in Symbian, the world's largest mobile operating system company, for US$ 400 million in the future, thus acquiring Symbian wholly.

Unsurprisingly, under the impetus of Nokia, Symbian shareholders, including Sony Ericsson, Ericsson, Panasonic and Siemens, agreed to sell shares to Nokia one after another, except Samsung.

By the beginning of September, the deadlock was finally broken. Samsung Electronics has agreed to sell its Saipan shares, but the purchase price has not been disclosed. Nokia announced that it will fully acquire all the shares of Saipan held by Ericsson, Panasonic, Samsung, Siemens and Sony Ericsson, making Saipan a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nokia.

Saipan's new rivers and lakes

It is understood that one of the goals of Nokia's original decision to acquire Symbian wholly is that from 2009, Nokia will form a new open mobile software platform together with Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DoCoMo. At the same time, unite the above companies and AT & amp； T, LG, Samsung, stmicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone set up a non-profit Symbian Foundation to promote the new Symbian mobile operating system platform to the whole world.

Symbian Foundation will start operation in 2009, aiming at unifying the user interface of Symbian system, creating a free platform and realizing open source under "public license" within two years. Foundation members will continue to develop open platforms in the future and release the source code of some components. In addition, you need to pay $65,438+0,500 to join this foundation.

Although there are objections, this plan is regarded by most people in the industry as a symbol of "the business model of copying personal computers with mobile phones". Frank Dickson, co-founder and chief research officer of market research organization MMI, believes that the long-term significance of this approach is greater than the immediate significance. He believes that through this transaction, mobile phones will likely become a standard platform for running standard operating systems.

Another reason for optimists is that Nokia's unification of Symbian rivers and lakes coincides with the giant's intention to fight Google.

Play against Google

"Companies such as Google, Apple and Microsoft are not our competitors traditionally, but we must meet the challenges they bring." Ollie Pekka said in public.

Olli-pekka kallasvuo's concern stems from the fact that Google, the dominant player in the Internet field, is gradually infiltrating into the mobile Internet, which has increasingly threatened traditional mobile phone terminal manufacturers such as Nokia.

In June, 2007, Google and more than 30 companies in the industry set up open handset alliance, and jointly developed an open source mobile platform for Android, striving to turn mobile phones into powerful mobile computers. Andy Andy Rubin, Google's mobile platform director in charge of Android project, expressed the hope that Android can be imported into high, medium and low-end product lines, which is the biggest difference between Linux and the popular commercial operating systems such as Nokia Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile. If successfully implemented, it will have an impact on the existing troops.

In this alliance, there are more than 30 companies, including German operators T-MOBILE, Qualcomm and Motorola, but there are no Palm, Microsoft, Apple, RIM and Symbian.

Nokia "predictably" stayed out of it. Niklas Savander, executive vice president of Nokia's services and software business, explained, "The Android platform has 3 to 4 million lines of code, and we must make a detailed evaluation before supporting the platform. If it is favorable, it will consider joining. "

Nigel Clifford, CEO of Saipan, revealed another signal. He said that Google's current open source is still closely tied to its own Gmap, Gmail and other products, which has brought a lot of inspiration to Symbian, so it does not rule out more extensive cooperation with Google at the application software or operating system level.

Businessweek believes that Nokia's doing this will help the development of mobile networks, stimulate people's demand for various mobile phone applications, and most importantly, stimulate the market demand for advertisements sold by Google, which may be exactly what Google wants. "Business Week" quoted Kevin Burden, director of mobile device research at ABIResearch, a market consulting firm, as saying, "This is also in line with Google's plan. Google also needs a more open device environment, which may be Google's ultimate goal. " However, there are also many people who hold completely opposite opinions. With the integration and opening of Symbian to the platform, both Apple and Google, as new forces of mobile operating system, may be affected.

Development prospect of five mobile phone operating systems

Intelligent mobile terminal operating system

Market share: ★★★★★☆.

Technological leap: ★★★★☆.

Highlights and importance: ★★★☆.

Symbian system has occupied the leading position in the intelligent system market for many years, and its system capability and ease of use have been recognized by the market and mobile phones.

Widely recognized by users.

Google Android

Market share: ★★★★☆.

Technological leap: ★★★★★☆.

Highlights and importance: ★★★★★☆.

The emergence and strong development of Android is a remarkable event in the mobile phone industry recently, and the way Google intervenes in the mobile phone field is beyond everyone's reach.

Unexpectedly, it is not the smart phone that people speculated before, but the openness formed by more than 30 leading manufacturers in the field of technology and wireless applications.

Mobile device platform.

Windows Mobile

Market share: ★★★★★

Technological leap: ★★★★☆.

Highlights and importance: ★★★★★

Windows Mobile(WM) system originated from Windows desktop system, and it has the blood of desktop application, so both interface design and function are required.

Users are similar to PCs. In the early promotion, this is also the reason why a large number of users invested in WM.

Linux operating system

Market share: ★★★★

Technical jump range: ★★★★

Highlights and importance: ★★★★

Although theoretically speaking, Linux system has the most open source characteristics, giving developers the greatest space to play, but from the development in recent years, Linux system

Children seem to be far away from most ordinary consumers.

Palm operating system

Market share: ★★

Technological leap: ★★★★☆.

Highlights and importance: ★★☆.

Palm OS, as an embedded operating system, is really its strong point when used on professional devices such as PDA. However, after Palm developed 1 1 year, it has been

After entering the cold winter, perhaps defending the high-end professional field is its right way.

[Edit this paragraph] Forum community

The Chinese abbreviation of the first community with the theme of smartphone operating system symbian in China was launched on June 18, 2005, which translated "symbian" into "Saipan" earlier in China and popularized this translation. At present, it has become the largest symbian application discussion community in the world, and it is the preferred online communication place for novices and players of symbian operating system in China and China. By the end of February, 65438+2008, it had more than 6 million registered members, and its daily visits could reach more than 5 million PV.

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