Android Cell Phone Operating System History

Android is an operating system of mobile phones, initially developed by Android Incorporated. Barely two years had the Palo Alto, California, Inc. Android mobile device a lot of knowledge. Google recognizes the market potential of mobile devices, the company acquired in 2005. The operating system is based on a modified version of the open source operating system Linux with applications written in different programming languages ​​such as Java, Python and Ruby. Android was one of the most popular mobile operating systems phone, Blackberry, Apple iPhone, Symbian and Microsoft Pocket PC and now the phone 7

Google and Open Handset Alliance developed an operating system Android. The Open Handset Alliance includes companies like Intel, Motorola, Texas Instruments, Samsung Electronics, NVIDIA, LG, Qualcomm, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile. On November 5, 2007 Google and the Open Handset Alliance announced they were working on a mobile set of open standards and introduces Android. In a little over a 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 ready for publication with the Android operating system. In October of that year T-Mobile G1 Android smartphone introduced to 1.0. The new phone first carried out at a price of $ 129.99 with a two-year contract. The phone was built by HTC and offered a sliding keyboard design. G1 was a screen display of 3.2 inches diagonally with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. The G1 has access to Android Market, Google ran where customers can install third party applications. The market showed that only thirty to forty applications at once.

Android operating system to continue with the development of the following announcement is named after deserts. Listed below are the names platform 1.0, 1.1, 1.5 (cupcake), 1.6 (Donut), 2.0/2.1 (Eclair), 2.2 (Froyo), 2.3 (gingerbread) and 3.0 (honeycomb). Tablet Android honeycomb version 3.0 was designed to take advantage of the larger size of the tablet screen and hardware capabilities.

Since publication of the initial number of T-Mobile G1 Android mobile phone was released. Every major airline in the United States now offer Android phones. As with the increase of units increased as the number of Android applications. As of this writing Android Market has more than 200,000 requests. One wonders what mobile devices of tomorrow will bring.