Android The Green Robot

What is Android?

Android is a multi-lingual operating system designed firstly for smartphones, and tablets, offering users access to Google services like Search, Youtube, Maps, Gmail and many more applications that you can download at Android app store. Android Inc. was founded in 2003 in Palto Alto, Carlifornia by (Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears, and Chris White). On August 2005 Google adquired Android Inc, however the initial release of this platform was in 2008, in fact the first Android-powered phone was sold in October 2008. Even if this platform was firstly designed for mobile devices, right now it has additional applications on televisions, games consoles and other electronics devices. Reports say that Android has a worldwide smartphone market share of 75% during the third quarter of 2012, with 500 million devices activate in total and 1.3 million activations per day. Then Android is one of the most popular smartphone platform in the world.

Android features:

There are a lot of version of Android. The lastest Version 4.2 Jelly Bean released in 2012 is awesome and very useful. But let mention some of features generally find in Android:

Multiple language support, Multitasking of applications, Accessibility, Voice based features, Messaging, Web browser, Widgets, GPS, External storage, Handset layouts, Java support, Streaming and Media support, Tethering, Screen Capture, Video calling, Connectivity including GSM/EDGE, IDEN, CDMA, EV-DO, UMTS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, LTE, NFC and WiMAX . To conclude we can say Android is continuously driving innovation forward, pushing the boundaries of communication and sharing with new capabilities and interactions.

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