Google will celebrate the fourth anniversary of its flagship mobile operating system, Android. In
relatively short time, more than 500 million Android devices have been
activated worldwide, with 1.3 million new Android devices activated each
day.
Android also managed to become a mobile operating system is the most dominant, with a global market share of 68 per cent or four times larger than Apple's market share, according to data from IDC's second quarter. The two most popular mobile operating systems have a combined market share of 85 percent.
The first version of this operating system, Android 1.0, was released on 23 September 2008.
Subsequent versions, which brings improvements and new features were added, followed, namely:
Android 1.1 (February 2009),
Android 1.5 "Cupcake" (30 April 2009),
Android 1.6 "Donut" (1 September 2009),
Android 2.0/2.1 'Eclair' (October 26, 2009),
Android 2.2 "Froyo" (May 20, 2010),
Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" (December 6, 2010),
Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" (February 22, 2011),
Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" (October 19, 2011), and
Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean" (June 27, 2012).
History of Android itself can be traced back to well before the time of its first appearance, at a time when Rich Miner, Andy Rubin, Nick Sears, and Chris White co-founded a company called Android in October 2003, nearly nine years ago.
Android subsequently joined Google as the Internet giant to buy the company for 50 million dollars in August 2005.
The first Android phone released to the market is the HTC Dream, which is known as the T-Mobile G1 in the U.S. market. Although relatively slow even for that time, the phone is equipped with a processor speed of 384 MHz and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard is successfully sold 1 million units in April 2009.
Today, the most advanced Android devices such as the LG Optimus M and the Samsung Galaxy Note II respectively are reinforced with quad-core processor Qualcomm Snapdragon and Samsung Exynos.
Along with iOS, Android has become the most popular mobile operating system in the world. Unless Microsoft managed to take a sizable portion of the Windows Phone 8 start later this year, the trend is likely to continue.
Android also managed to become a mobile operating system is the most dominant, with a global market share of 68 per cent or four times larger than Apple's market share, according to data from IDC's second quarter. The two most popular mobile operating systems have a combined market share of 85 percent.
The first version of this operating system, Android 1.0, was released on 23 September 2008.
Subsequent versions, which brings improvements and new features were added, followed, namely:
Android 1.1 (February 2009),
Android 1.5 "Cupcake" (30 April 2009),
Android 1.6 "Donut" (1 September 2009),
Android 2.0/2.1 'Eclair' (October 26, 2009),
Android 2.2 "Froyo" (May 20, 2010),
Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" (December 6, 2010),
Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" (February 22, 2011),
Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" (October 19, 2011), and
Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean" (June 27, 2012).
History of Android itself can be traced back to well before the time of its first appearance, at a time when Rich Miner, Andy Rubin, Nick Sears, and Chris White co-founded a company called Android in October 2003, nearly nine years ago.
Android subsequently joined Google as the Internet giant to buy the company for 50 million dollars in August 2005.
The first Android phone released to the market is the HTC Dream, which is known as the T-Mobile G1 in the U.S. market. Although relatively slow even for that time, the phone is equipped with a processor speed of 384 MHz and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard is successfully sold 1 million units in April 2009.
Today, the most advanced Android devices such as the LG Optimus M and the Samsung Galaxy Note II respectively are reinforced with quad-core processor Qualcomm Snapdragon and Samsung Exynos.
Along with iOS, Android has become the most popular mobile operating system in the world. Unless Microsoft managed to take a sizable portion of the Windows Phone 8 start later this year, the trend is likely to continue.
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