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WHAT IS ANDROID? Android is the world's most popular mobile
platform. With Android you can use all the Google apps you know and love, plus there are more than 600,000 apps and games available on Google Play to keep you entertained, alongside millions of songs and books, and thousands of movies. Android devices are already smart, and will only get smarter, with new features you won't find on any other platform, letting you focus on what's important and putting you in control of your mobile experience.
Who founded Android, Inc.?
O Android, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California, United States 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 WebTV).[25] to develop, in Rubin's words "...smarter mobile devices that are more aware of its owner's location and preferences."
Why most of people love android tablet devices?Android tablet devices are great
gadgets which could be practically used for anything from a technological point of view. There is no doubt that multi-functionality is what attracts most of the loyal users who tend to buy every new model of the android devices no matter if it is a tablet or an android phone. If some thought is given, it could be easily concluded that the android tablet is actually replacing the laptops because it can be used for chatting, playing games, preparing documents, reading documents, sending mails, listening to music etc. It is pretty much like something that replaces a computer, MP3 player and even a mobile phone. That’s right! Some of the most recent tablets can even enable their users to make phone calls.
WHY ANDROID IS BETTER THAT IOS?
Android iOS
*Many People who have iPhone’s will try to point out the “great features” of the
iOS, however they don’t know what they are missing out on. There are many things about
the iOS, that are just plain irritating, and I will point them
out.
1. The Back Button
The iPhone lacks a back button, a feature which pretty much all Android phones have
to begin with. For example, if you’re reading an email and you click on a link, it opens up Safari, and to get back to your email, you have to press the home
button, and click on the mail app again. (This was somewhat fixed with iOS 4.0
multitasking but the functionality of Android is still better.)
2. Default AppsSo far, it is impossible to set default
apps for certain actions on the iPhone. However, on Android, this is a piece of cake. If you want to set
Opera or Dolphin as the default web browser, you can do so easily but on iPhone, you have to open the app up
manually, since Safari cannot be changed as the default web browser.
The Android slide-down notification bar is amazing, however, the iPhone notification system is horrendous.
3. Notification System
Android Widgets are absolutely amazing. The iPhone lacks Widgets altogether. Android widgets can be placed on the home screen(s), and can provide you with quick news
updates, live scorecards for sport, messages, email, and much,
much, more.
4. WIDGETS
5. Memory
Apple is too restrictive on what their customers can do and what they can’t. For example, the iPhone doesn’t
have a slot for micro-SD cards. If you want more memory on an iPhone, you’ll have to pay an outrageous sum of money for an iPhone with a higher capacity of memory.
(There is a significant price difference between the 16GB and 32GB iPhones.) Pretty much all Android Phones, on the other hand, have a compartment to put a micro-SD card into, and with the release of Android 2.2(Froyo),
many apps can be saved onto the SD card, saving you a lot of valuable phone memory.
6. Integration
On Android, if you want, your Facebook contacts
can be integrated into your phonebook. This a feature
which the iPhone lacks.
Personally, I hated having to repeatedly sync my iPhone with iTunes. With Android, plug your
phone into the computer, and it’s just drag and drop, which believe
me, is much quicker and convenient than syncing. So, your Android
phone can even replace your USB. The iPhone can’t even be started for
the first time without iTunes!
7. Syncing
8. Android MarketThe Android Market doesn’t send you back to the home screen every time you want to download/update an app. I have found this to be very irritating on the App Store.
9. FLASH
Many Android phones have Adobe Flash support, while the iPhone only has html5
support. Without flash, many videos on the Internet cannot be viewed, making YouTube, Facebook Video, And TwitVid, some of the only video sites supported by the iPhone.
10. DevelopersApple charges people who
want to develop applications for the App Store $100/year, while Google only charges Android developers $5, so
once again Android prevails.
11. Email
The email system on the iPhone is horrible. You have to manually
check for email, unlike on Android, on which you are notified of an email as soon as it arrives.
Also, if you have already viewed/read an email on your
computer (eg. on Hotmail), it will appear as unread on your iPhone.
This is a big disadvantage for people who use email a lot.
Yep! On Android, all three versions of Angry Birds are
free, unlike on iOS where they are $1
each.
12. Angry Birds is Free
5 Things iPhone 4S Can’t Do That Android Can
4G Speeds:
Ever since the HTC EVO 4G launched on Sprint’s WiMAX network in summer 2010, we’ve seen more and more Android handsets with next-gen network support. Today, every major carrier sells 4G Android phones, including Verizon, which has half a dozen LTE handsets that can download at speeds between 10 and 20 Mbps while the 3G iPhone 4S will be lucky to pull down 1.5 to 2 Mbps. Buy your iPhone 4S with a two-year contract and you’ll be stuck on a 2008-era network in 2013.
Load Any App You Want:
With iOS, developers and users are at the mercy of Apple’s standards board. With Android, there are literally dozens of app stores in addition to
Google’s Android Market. Want to program your
own app and distribute it your friends? With
Android, it’s no problem; just give your friends the install file, tell them to check the “Unknown sources” box in their
settings menu, and go to town.
Keyboard Flexibility:
If you don’t like
Android’s stock
keyboard, you have
dozens of third-party
alternatives, from
Swype to Better
Keyboard. Better still,
you can buy an Android
handset with a honest-
to-goodness physical
keyboard. If you don’t
like the iPhone’s
keyboard, you’ll need to
jailbreak it in order to
install an alternative.
Bigger Screens:
With the iPhone 4S, you can get any screen size you want as long as it’s 3.5 inches. With the wide range of Android phones available, you can choose from tiny form factors such as the Motorola Charm or huge ones, such as the 4.5-inch Samsung Infuse. It’s your choice, not Apple’s.
NFC Support/Mobile Payments:
With a Near Field Communications (NFC) chip, Android phones such as the Samsung
Nexus S and the HTC Amaze 4G can
double as your wallet, allowing you to
tap and pay at a growing number of retail outlets. In the future, NFC chips
will also allow your phone to be used as an ID card
or a keycard. Maybe then, Apple will add this promising technology to
its phones.