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Thursday, December 15, 2011

What is Android?

Android is a platform for applications to run on mobile devices. Android provides a more user friendly environment for mobile users, to work around using mobiles, when compared to other mobile operating systems. This software stack gives users a more attractive touch experience, which makes it more popular.

Android is an open source software, which uses Linux as its core. The feature that makes android more common among smartphone operating systems is licensing. Window operating system is another operating system used among smartphone, for which the hardware manufacturers need to pay for. Another factor that makes android stand forward, when compared to windows mobile is the cost of the device. The windows mobile devices are very expensive. But android provides smart phone devices for very less rates, which makes it common among common customers.

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