Hello to everyone, OS
“X” of this month is a Mobile OS. Now-a-days mobiles are mesmerizing the young
ones in the world, such mobiles are operated by a super OS. I think you may
have guessed it by now. Yes! It is Android rocking the world with a share of
81.1% highest of its type (Mobile platforms). Behind the victory of Android
there is a reason that is Android is open source software which means it can be
modified by anyone and its source can be viewed by everyone. My favorite is also
android, even though I am a great fan of Steve jobs. Android, Inc. was founded
in Pa lo Alto, California in October 2003 by Andy Rubin (co-founder of
Danger),Rich Miner (co-founder of Wildfire Communications, Inc.), Nick
Sears(once VP at T-Mobile), and Chris White (headed design and interface
development at Web TV) .The early intentions of the company were to develop an
advanced operating system for digital cameras, when it was realized that the
market for the devices was not large enough, and diverted their efforts to
producing a smartphone operating system to rival those of Symbian and Windows
Mobile (Apple's iPhone had not been released at the time). First Android
powered phone was HTC one released on October 2007. Android has a wide range of applications.
The operating system's success has made it a target for patent litigation as
part of the so-called "smartphone wars" between technology companies.
As of May 2013, 48 billion apps have been installed from the Google Play store
and as of September 3, 2013, there have been 1 billion Android devices
activated Today there are 1.5 million android apps and there thousands and
hundreds of mobile devices that support Android OS. Android Tablets are also in
market. In July 2013 there were 11,868 different models of Android device,
scores of screen sizes and eight OS versions simultaneously in use. Android is
a UNIX like operating system, works with monolithic kernel (modified Linux
kernel). Android has a good user Interface (UI).Android’s interface is based on
the touch screen input. Android supports ARM, x 86, MIPS architecture. Google
acquired Android Inc. on August 17, 2005, making it a wholly owned subsidiary
of Google. Key employees of Android Inc., including Rubin, Miner and White,
stayed at the company after the acquisition. Not much was known about Android
Inc. at the time, but many assumed that Google was planning to enter the mobile
phone market with this move. Android has several version of operating system
released till date their release date and version names are as follows:
Version
|
Release Date
|
API level
|
Distribution
|
|
|
|||
4.3
(Jelly Bean)
|
July 24, 2013
|
18
|
0 %
|
4.2.x (Jelly Bean)
|
November 13, 2012
|
17
|
8.5 %
|
4.1.x (Jelly Bean)
|
July 9, 2012
|
16
|
36.6 %
|
4.0.3–4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
|
December 16, 2011
|
15
|
21.7 %
|
3.2
(Honeycomb)
|
July 15, 2011
|
13
|
0.1 %
|
3.1
(Honeycomb)
|
May 10, 2011
|
12
|
0%
|
2.3.3–2.3.7 (Gingerbread)
|
February 9, 2011
|
10
|
30.7 %
|
2.3–2.3.2
(Gingerbread)
|
December 6, 2010
|
9
|
0
%
|
2.2 (Froyo)
|
May 20, 2010
|
8
|
2.4 %
|
2.0–2.1 (Éclair)
|
October 26, 2009
|
7
|
0 %
|
1.6
(Donut)
|
September 15,
2009
|
4
|
0 %
|
1.5
(Cupcake)
|
April 30, 2009
|
3
|
0 %
|
No matter what mobiles are newly introduced into the market Android Phones will rule the world. But there are still some phones that may overtake Android features we will see those OS in the upcoming OS “X” of the month post. See you soon!! J Till then its bye from a geek like you…..
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