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The Android platform is a mobile-phone operating program originally created by Android Incorporated. Just below two years old, the Palo Alto, California Android Inc. possessed a lot of mobile device expertise. Google recognizing the potential of the mobile-device market acquired the organization in 2005. The operating technique is built upon a modified version of the open source Linux operating system with applications written in different programming languages like Java, Python and Ruby. Android has turn into a single of the most nicely identified mobile-telephone operating systems along with Blackberry, Apple iPhone, Symbian, and Microsoft's Pocket Pc and now Phone 7.

Google and the Open Handset Alliance further developed the Android operating method. The Open Handset Alliance included organizations such as Intel, Motorola, Texas Instruments, Samsung Electronics, Nvidia, LG, Qualcomm, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile. On November 5th of 2007 Google and the Open Handset Alliance announced they were working on a mobile device set of open standards and introduced Android. In a little more than a year ARM Holdings, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba Corp, Asustek Computer system Inc, Garmin Ltd, and Vodafone joined the Open Handset Alliance.

Around August of 2008 rumors started to circulate that a new cell telephone was about prepared to be released with the Android operating method. On October of the exact same year T-Mobile introduced the G1 Android 1. powered intelligent telephone. The new telephone initially carried a cost tag of $129.99 with a two year contract. The telephone was built by HTC and featured a slide out keyboard design. The G1 screen was a three.2 inch diagonal display with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. The G1 had access to Google ran Android Market place exactly where prospects could set up third-party applications. The marketplace featured only about thirty to forty applications at the time.

The Android operating system continued improvement with subsequent releases becoming named just after deserts. The following list shows the platform designations 1., 1.1, 1.five (Cupcake), 1.6 (Donut), 2./two.1 (Éclair), two.2 (Froyo), two.3 (Gingerbread) and 3. (Honeycomb). The 3. Honeycomb version was designed for tablets taking advantage of the bigger screen size and hardware capabilities.

Given that the release of the original T-Mobile G1 numerous Android cell phones have been released. Each and every major carrier in the United States now delivers Android powered cell phones. As with the improve of devices has grown so has the number of Android applications. As of the time of this writing the Android Industry presents over 200,000 applications. 1 can only wonder what the future mobile devices will hold.