Mobile phones have become now most important part of our life, we cannot even think of not living without out mobile phone. Some people prefer to use simple phones but many of us are addict to the phones with a lot of features and functions; that is why we always looking in to the new developments in the field of mobile phones. Mobile phone plays a vital role in our life and it has eased our life in many ways. In this article you will be reading about the Android which has also given a name of “open source software stack”.
Android came in to existence in year 2008 to help and support the mobiles phones and devices relevant to it. It’s an operating system designed for mobile devices. The OS is coded mainly into C/C++ languages and system UI is built on Java UI programming. Android operating system offers various level of application and system API to build application that interact with system Kernel (version 2.6) and run under certain privileges.
Google is leading Android open software project called (AOSP) to take care the area of improvement, development, problem solutions and recovery matters.
Features of Android Phones
- Human finger touch interaction (works using input event listeners API)
- Camera Front/Rear (works using media/hardware API)
- High Quality Display.
- Third Party applications (through Google android app store)
- High end (HD) videos/games playback and mp3 sound (that depends on hardware specs)
- Radio reception (depends on hardware)
- Optimized Multitasking on different apps (CPU/GPU quality and internal storage determines it)
- Internet connectivity using WiFi.
Most popular, simple and handy android phones available in the market are briefed below.
Samsung Mobile with Galaxy Pro:
Again one of the most used and popular android phones among the professionals with its very comfortable and easy to use QWERTY formatted keypads in a touch screen display. It is believed that the four rows in a keyboard have taken attention of professional businessmen and executives from all regions. And now this mobile phone has also been known as Samsung galaxy pro business people desired handset. This phone is design with great care and is consist of TFT touch screen 2.8inches and has capability of 256 colors images with its 3.2 mega pixels camera. The more good news about this phone is that it has capacity of capturing of 30fps videos. It has capacity of 160mb to 32 gigabytes with the power of 800 MHz processor and 3G technologies.
The above discussed phones are just a small examples of android products and there are lots of other mobile phones and devices are in the market depending on the people buying capacity and affordability. There are countless services available in these phone model is greater than other. Every phone has its own advantages and functions so buyers have an edge to select his choice. Android phones and devices are available in the market and you can easily purchase from online and offline markets. The resale value of these products is always an advantage for the users who want to sell their old android devices to get latest versions. You can trust blindly to these android products, if you want to search more about these products you can use search engines to find out more about android phones and devices.
Upcoming Android Phones to watch out for in 2012
- Samsung Galaxy S III.
- Google Galaxy Nexus
- HTC Rezound
- Motorola Droid 4
Android Version History
- Android 1.0 released on 28 September 2008 with all basic features of internet apps, web browser, instant/text messaging, voice dialer, youtube, wi-fi connectivity and utilities like calculator, alarm, photo gallery and media player.
- Android 1.1 released on 9 February 2009 with bit improvements of maps, call screen timeouts and saving attachments.
- Android 1.5 Cupcake released on 30 April 2009 with major improvements on API stack to support third party keyboards callbacks, widgets, video recording, device pairing, copy/paste of text and some UI transitions effects.
- Android 1.6 Donut released on 15 September 2009 with improvements in application frameworks that improves performance of camera and searching
- Android 2.0 released on October 2009 with bluetooth 2.1 support, multi-touch events and revamped UI.
- Android 2.2.x Foryo released on May 2010 with performance optimizations, V8 javascript engine to support modern HTML interaction, auto updates of market apps, SD card installable API calls for app installer and adobe flash support.
- Android 2.3.x Gingerbread released on December 2010 with HD screen resolution supports, video conferencing, power management, multiple camera APIs, download manager, audio effects, enhanced text manipulation, faster keyboard input and barometers/gyroscope hardware API support.
- Android 3.0 Honeycomb for abdroid-tablets released on February 2011
- Android 4.x Ice Cream Sandwich released on 19 October 2011 with pinch to zoom facility, offline search, screenshot capture, accessing app from locked screen, face unlock, tabbed browser, photo editor, resizable widgets, data limit for internet usage.