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What is Android the world best selling smartphone platform?

This article gives an introduction to the Android mobile operating

system and why you should buy an android phone if you don t buy it yet!

Android is the Google s mobile operating system, which was initiallydeveloped by Android Inc. but later in 2005 the Android Inc. is acquiredby Google for $50,000,000.

The Android is based upon the modified version of the Linux kernel. It iscoded in C for its core, C++ for third party libraries and java for the userinterface. The Android is free and open source software which comesunder Apache license.

FE ATURES

The Android platform has large variety of features these include its

adaptability to large VGA display 2D graphics library and support towide range of connectivity technologies such as GSM/EDGE, CDMA, EV-DO, UTMS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Wi Max.

Android also supports many media formats such as H. 264, MPEG-4,AMR, AAC, MP3, WAV, Ogg, JPEG, PNG, and GIF. It also supportscamera (video and still), touchscreen, GPS, accelerometers, gyroscopes,magnetometers, proximity, pressure sensors, thermometers andaccelerated 3D graphics.

All these features will definitely make you to buy an Android phone andif you are a developer then these features provides you a greatopportunity to work upon with.

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V ERSIONS OF AND ROID

Android has several versions since its original release. Each new versionis update in the original release to add new features and fix bugs. It isinteresting to know that when the first version of Android was releasedit has no actual device in the market.

1) Android 1.02) Android 1.13) Android 1.5 under the codename Cupcake.4) Android 1.6 under the codename Donut

5) Android 2.0 under the codename clair (It give a new andimproved user interface, introduce HTML 5 and exchange activesync 2.5 support)

6) Android 2.01/2.1 under the codename clair7) Android 2.2 under the codename Froyo (It includes speed

optimization with JIT optimization, chrome V8 JavaScript engine,Wi-Fi hotspot and adobe flash support).

8) Android 2.3/2.3.3 under the codename Gingerbread (It includesrefined user interface, improved the soft keyboard, copy pastefeatures and support for near field communication)

9) Android 3 under the codename Honeycomb (It is released only fortablet which includes support for larger screen, new userinterface, support for multicore processor and hardwareacceleration for graphics)

10) Android 3.1/3.2 under the codename Honeycomb (Itincludes honeycomb devices to directly transfer content fromVSB devices, broader range of screen sizes, zoom to fill screencompatibility mode, load media files directly from the SD card andextend screen support API)

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Fu t u re ReleasesAndroid 4.0 under the codename Ice cream Sandwich (It is acombination of Gingerbread and Honeycomb into a cohesive

whole)

AND ROID MARKETAndroid market is the online software store developed by Googlefor Android devices. In this store you can find more than 2,00,000third party apps to do almost everything a phone is capable of which includes games ,applications and widgets.