What is Android?

is a wide choice of Android phones from different manufacturers

Google Nexus S

With Google's Andy Rubin announcing that there are now 500,000 activations of Android devices per day, it's clear that Google's operating system has hit the big time.However, despite shops such as Phones 4U advertising "Latest Android handsets" for the release of phones like the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, LG Optimus 2X and HTC Wildfire S, many people are still left asking, "What is an Android phone? And what is an Android tablet?"Android is an operating system for mobile phones and tablets, in much the same way that PCs run Microsoft Windows as their operating system. It's maintained by Google, and comes in a few different versions. At the time of writing, mobile phones run a variant of version 2 of Android, while most new tablets run a variant of version 3.The difference between the 2.x and 3.x versions of Android is mainly in how they use the screen space provided. Because Android 3.x is designed to run on tablets, its apps have been altered to be able to fit more information on the screen at one time. It also puts all buttons for navigation in the interface, while Android 2.x devices tend to include some physical buttons (usually Home, Back, Menu and Search keys).Android's standard layout is to have a series of Home screens, which can contain shortcuts to launch apps, or can contain widgets, which are small programs that serve a single function, such as controlling your music or displaying Facebook updates." 

       WHY ANDROID????

Why I choose HTC as my first Smartphone because I think it makes handsets powered by Android. Some of us may not even know they're running Android, but it gets the job done and they're not at all worried about nuts and bolts of what make our gadgets tick.

Ever since I got the HTC, i've been meaning to write up a little post about the Android and it's importance these days. 

The most thing I really love about the Android is when I read from the lifehacker.com about the Android features that the iPhone doesn't have. The one of them is True App Integration."Google voice may finally be available for the iphone, but the experience will never be the same as it is on Android. Other iPhone apps always direct you to the default dialer and visual voicemail apps, so even if you want to use Google Voice full time, you have to manually navigate it to yourself. On Android, Apps like Google Voice integrate directly with the operating system, if you want make calls from Google Voice, every call you make from the phone's dialer goes through Google Voice. When you click on a phone number in your browser or in Google Maps, it goes through Google Voice instead of sending you to the wrong dialer. True app integration like this make using custom phone, SMS, voicemail and even browser apps absolutely seamless on Android, which is something you won't find on the more locked-down iPhone platform."