subject: 18 Google Android Mobiles Launched This Year? [print this page]
Google Androidis a complete solution for mobile phones - an operating system and related systems for managing applications.According to Google, it at least 18 handsets running Android, just this year.
There is much that is interesting about Android.In several ways it can be seen as a competitor to theiPhone, even if Android is only one system and not a unique mobile phone.The system is built based onLinuxand is free to use.Google has also created a so-called SDK (Software Developer Kit) that allows programmers to develop tools for the system.
Compared to the iPhone, Android is much more open.Anyone can build applications and games for Android and distribute it to users, while in the iPhone world, that Apple approves the application before it comes up in the AppStore.Although it is possible to install programs on free-to unlock the iPhone, but it is in the gray area.
Eight or nine mobile manufacturers are building phones based on Android, and as usual, it is faster in Europe than in the U.S., which means it probably will not wait too long before we see Android phones in our stores.
