Mobile and Android together a big hit

Gone are the days and those Mobiles phones without Android. A lot of mobile phones have inbuilt attractive features and designs but when Mobiles with Android comes to the market people tend to forget every other phone released .
Past times witnessed the acclaim of Android based phones worldwide . Around 60,000 Android phones used to get shipped every single day . As a matter of fact , the Android platform powered by Google was released not too long ago, but shows its supremacy significantly by various Mobile giants with the establishment of the Open Handset Alliance.

If the last year smartphone companies were remembered for the launch of Android based phones this year it would be remembered defeat its opponents.

If we talk about Android as a whole, it is an operating system (OS) urbanized by Google for mobile devices including cellular phones, tablet computers and netbooks. The OS is based on the Linux kernel and GNU software. According to the fresh report from NDP Group, Android OS smartphones ranked 1 with 33% unit sales ahead of BlackBerry OS, which holds number two position with 28% unit sales in the world. Apple’s iPhone iOS comes third with 22% ,next to RIM BlackBerry.
Below mentioned are some of Androids attractive features :
• Video/still cameras, touchscreens, GPS, accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, proximity and pressure sensors, thermometers, accelerated 2D bit blitz and accelerated 3D graphics.
• Handset layouts: VGA, 2D graphics library, 3D graphics library based on OpenGL ES 2.0 specifications, and traditional smartphone layouts.
• Storage: SQLite is used for data storage purposes
• Connectivity: GSM/EDGE, IDEN, CDMA, EV-DO, UMTS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX.
• Messaging: SMS, MMS, and Android Cloud to Device Messaging Framework(C2DM)
• Web browser: open-source WebKit layout engine, coupled with Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine
• Java support: It runs on Dalvik virtual machine but does not support J2ME
• Media support: audio/video/still media formats such as: H.263, H.264, MPEG-4 SP, AMR, AMR-WB (in 3GP container), AAC, HE-AAC , MP3, MIDI, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP
• Development environment: Includes a device emulator, tools for debugging, memory and performance profiling, and a plugin for the Eclipse IDE
•Bluetooth