Mobile is becoming more and more of a hit not only in young adults in the Philippines. Almost everybody have their own mobiles, embracing new products and making life easier and more convenient than ever.

In the early days, few can afford to have their own mobile. But as new technologies are introduced people become more and more competitive in buying mobile with new design, new features, surging ahead and along with modernity.

Mobile opened new possibilities of communication. For a time, it was just nothing but a handy tool used for conversation. Then came text messaging, Today, mobile can take photographs and videos and send it anywhere by email and by phone.

In the Philippines, these mobile features and capabilities, usually found in Nokia mobiles were made popular by the two competing companies Globe and Smart. To a satisfied user, mobile is a great baby of technology and modernization, but to the techno-entrepreneur circle, it is a work of genius.

The operating system (OS) that these mobiles depend on for basic operations like its screen display, response to user, download of favorite music, hook up to internet, is The Real-Time Operating System Nucleus or known shortly as TRON.

TRON was created in the early 1980s by a team led by Sakamura Ken, a Japanese computer architect and was released to the public in 1984. Over a year ago, Sakamura�s creation became the most popular OS in Japan. TRON is also used in home electronic appliances and audiovisual equipment. Other major products that depend on TRON are Toyota�s engine control system, Mitsubishi Electric cell phones, Sony�s minidisk video camera, Sanyo Electric�s digital photo album and many more.

Sakamura was the person who wrote the program code of TRON and many companies agreed with and supported the aim of TRON. These companies recognized its usefulness and convenience and some developed OS based on TRON specification that were eventually incorporated in their own products. This worked for the phone makers, enabling them to add new functions on any given moment.

Game software and other application featured in mobiles are programmed in Java, making it a perfect fit with the known JTRON-type OS.

Anybody can use TRON for free and its specifications are in the public domain, that is why TRON is said to be an open architecture. TRON was developed long before Linux.

Despite Sakamura�s achievement in creating TRON, he is no billionaire like Microsoft founder Bill Gates, but just as successful in changing people�s lives and a donor, indeed, to the world of �equipments communicating with each other�.

About the Author

Marou Laurio-Eduarte is a freelance PR writer who used to work in Malacanang. Marou also used to be the literary editor of Miriam College�s Chi-Rho Publication as well as was actively involved in school newspapers back in high school and college.