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Android is an operating program created by the Open Handset Alliance controlled by Google, for mobile gadgets such as tablet computers and smartphones.

Android Inc., was the initial developer of Android and it was purchased by Google on August 17 2005. The Open Handset Alliance, which is a consortium of a number of computer software, hardware and telecommunication suppliers, was then formed and the Android operating system was distributed on November 5 2007. Due to the fact then Android phones have grown by leaps and bounds and steadily captured the mobile market place.

Most of the Android code was released by Google under the Apache license which is a free software license. The functionality of the Android devices is extended by the sizeable number of apps that are developed by a community of developers maintained by Android.

As of October 2011, there had been far more than 300,000 Android apps that are offered for download and the number has been ever increasing. The number of apps that had been downloaded has been identified to exceed ten billion. Such apps can be downloaded from the Android Marketplace that is run by Google or from third-party web-sites.

Android operating technique has had a number of updates since the original release, and every single version had a new feature or fixed a dilemma with an older version. The most current version of the operating system is known as Ice Cream Sandwich, which has an added feature of facial recognition.

Android phones have all the capabilities of smartphones such as storage, messaging, connectivity, multiple language support, Java assistance, internet browser, media assistance, multi-touch, streaming media support, Bluetooth, multitasking, video calling, voice based features, screen capture and tethering.

HTC dream was the 1st telephone to run on Android that was commercially accessible. Since then the phones have added a number of brilliant new attributes and the most current Samsung Galaxy series of phones are the very top in the industry for smartphones.

The growth of Android phones

As per the info provided by Canalys, a research company, Android had a share of 2.8 percent of the worldwide shipments of smartphones as of Q2 2009. By Q4 2010, it had captured 33 percent of the market to best as the greatest selling smartphone platform. As per Gartner estimates, nearly 52.5 percent of the smartphone market belonged to Android as of Q4 2011.

In February 2010, only 9 percent of the United States smartphone market place was held by Android. But as the number of mobile subscribers elevated, this number gradually elevated to 21.four percent as of Q3 2010. The U.S. sales of Android surpassed that of iPhone in the first quarter of 2010. iPhone sales grew as nicely, which indicated that Android was capturing the RIM industry in the U.S. Also, it is pointed out that because Android is a multi-carrier and multi-channel operating program, it was able to swiftly duplicate the success of Microsoft's Windows Mobile.

As of June 2011, 550, 000 new Android gadgets were being activated on a every day basis and there were around 190 million Android devices in the smartphone market place as of October 2011. This grew to 200 million users on November 16 2011.

Google purchased Motorola Mobility for US $12.five billion, on August 2011 thereby strengthening its hold on the market place. This led to the opening of the first Android shop in Melbourne in December 2011.