The Growth of Android Software
Android is one of the leading mobile operating
systems in the world. With unmatched performance and functional capabilities,
Android has attained a great level of excellence and importance. The Android
software is considered to be the most appealing and accentuating feature of a
mobile phone, tablet or any other device. It offers a great level of
sophistication and convenience. In doing so, it supports a wide and diverse
variety of attractive and alluringly exciting applications that include games,
business apps and a lot more.
The popularity of the Android Operating system has
significantly increased the production of devices that are compatible with this
OS. Many developers of the Android based devices have stepped in the worldwide
electronics market and are introducing hundreds of compatible phones and
tablets with each passing day.
Android Phone is a device induced with power and
performance based smoothness. It is, therefore, the perfect companion of
everyone. It does not matter if the individual is a gamer, application lover,
photography enthusiast or a businessman, an Android operating system based
phone is the best communication device for everyone.
There were over 300,000 Android applications that
were available for download in the Android Market, as of October 2011. The
number has ever been increasing. Number of applications that have been
downloaded by users has even exceeded 10 billion. Such applications can be
obtained from Android Market, now named as Google Play, which is run by Google
and is updated with new applications by developers on daily basis.
The Android OS has had several updates since its
original release. Each newer version came with new features. Newer versions
also fixed the problems that were found in the older ones. The most recent
version is called Jellybean (4.2), which was released on November 13th, 2012.
Android phones come with all the abilities of
smartphones, for instance messaging, storage, connectivity, Java support,
multiple language support, media support, web browser, streaming media support,
multi-touch, multitasking, Bluetooth, voice based features, video calling,
tethering and screen capture.
HTC-Dream is known to be the first phone that ran
Android software as its operating system. Since then the Android phones have
added numerous brilliant features and functions. Almost all the mobile and
tablet manufacturing companies are now launching devices that run Android
operating system. The most recent Samsung Galaxy series of smartphones are
considered the best in the market.
According to the details provided by a research
company, Canalys, by Q2 2009, Android had a share of 2.8% of the global
shipments of smartphones. By Q4 2010, it reached 33% and gained the position of
best selling platform for smartphones. As per a Q4 2012 report by NDTV, the
sales of smartphones powered by Android software were more than 44% in the
worldwide market of smartphones.
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