Android is an operating system for mobile telephony was originally developed by Android Incorporated. Barely two years had the Palo Alto, California Android Inc. a knowledge of mass mobile device. Google recognizes the market potential of mobile devices, the company acquired in 2005. The operating system is based on a modified version of the operating system Linux with open source applications written in different programming languages, including Java, Python and Ruby. Android has been one of the most popular systems operating mobile with Blackberry, Apple iPhone, Symbian and Microsoft Pocket PC Phone 7 and now
Google and Open Handset Alliance’s Android operating system developed. Open Handset Alliance, companies such as Intel, Motorola, Texas Instruments, Samsung Electronics, Nvidia, LG, Qualcomm, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile. November 5th June 2007, Google and Open Handset Alliance have announced they are working on your mobile device set of open standards and introduced the Android. Last year, ARM Holdings, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba Corp, Asustek Computer Inc., Garmin Ltd. and Vodafone joined the Open Handset Alliance.
Around August 2008 rumors began circulating that a new cell phone was about to be released Android operating system. In October the same year, T-Mobile G1 Android smartphone has the power 1.0. The new phone was first priced at $ 129.99 with a two-year contract. The phone was built by HTC and offered a sliding keyboard design. The display screen G1 is 3.2 inches diagonally with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. The G1 has access to run Google Android Market, where customers can install third party applications. The market consists of only thirty to forty applications at once.
Android operating system has continued to develop and later are named after deserts. The following list shows the names platform 1.0, 1.1, 1.5 (Cupcake), 1.6 (Donut), 2.0/2.1 (Flash), 2.2 (Froyo), 2.3 (gingerbread) and 3 0 (honeycomb). The honeycomb of version 3.0 was developed for the benefit of the tablets of the largest screen size and hardware capabilities.
Since the release of the original T-Mobile G1 Android Many mobile phones have been released. Every major carrier in the U.S. now offer Android powered phones. As with the increase of equipment has increased as the number of Android applications. From the time of writing the Android Market has more than 200,000 applications. One may wonder what the future held mobile devices.