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What is Android?

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What is Android?

Introduction

Android, or known by the geek as Andy, is the operating system develop by Google, with the hope to provide an open source based mobile operating system to the masses. It come to live in the end of 2008, but come to main stream on 2009, with the introduction of T-Mobile G1 (or HTC Dream), the first phone to be powered by the new Google mobile OS (using the first version 1.5 known as Cupcake).

By harnessing the power of Android Open Source Project or famously known as AOSP, with "The goal of the Android Open Source Project is to create a successful real-world product that improves the mobile experience for end users." Yes. That is what we are experiencing now.

Version

There as been a few version up before the latest "Jelly Bean 4.1", an update for Ice cream sandwich or ICS 4.0.x.

  • Cupcake
  • Donut
  • Eclair
  • Froyo
  • Gingerbread
  • Honeycomb
  • Ice Cream Sandwich
  • Jelly Bean

If you has been or using an Android phone, you will be much more happy than ever, since it always provide it user with the best UX ever.

Written by Fadli Saad in the category Android tags: , , , , .

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