Facts You Might Not Know About Android Phones - Computers

The new Android phone has probably been seen or heard in some advertising you've been exposed to recently. You know that there are Google phones available but you don't know much beyond that. The fact is that a Google phone runs the Android OS much like a computer runs Windows OS. The similarities between other phones and the google phone end there.

So many cellular phones use the Android OS offers challenges in making a logical phone choice. Google phones and Android phones are considered smart phones, this is good news in today's society! Look out iPhone and Blackberry there's a new kid in town, Google phones taking on the smart phone world! Here are a few more interesting facts about he Android OS.

One website insists that Google is not the original creator of the Android OS. We are well aware of the fact that most people credit Google with this. Many people will call these phones "Google phones" when they are looking into them. From our research, we learned that the very first creators of the Android operating system are Andy Rubin and Rich Miner. They built the system in 2003 and then sold it to Google for a lovely profit. In spite of the 2003 purchase, Google decided to sit on the OS for a few years while it was further developed and improved and readied for the cellular market.

The Android OS is actually based on the Linux system. Linux is an open source operating system that people use instead of Windows or Mac OSes. There are lots of rumors flying about the real reason Google wanted to buy the system. Just about everybody knows that Microsoft and Google have a long and established rivalry. Is it any wonder that they would snap up a system that was based after one of the main challengers to the Windows system? A major benefit to using an open source system like Linux is that anybody can work on it and develop it further. This allows the company to keep development costs low and turn a major profit.

Being able to multi-task between applications is a major selling point that helps Android compete against the crazily popular iPhones. The iPhone can operate all of its base features at one time: phone calls, music, internet and one of your apps. That is pretty much the only multi-tasking it can do. You could, however, run your Twitter app along with your note taking apps and not have any issues. The great thing about the Android OS is that it is always changing and growing to be relevant in an ever changing market. Not all of the wireless OS creators can say that. If you stop and think about just how fast the cell phone market moves it should be very comforting to know that your cell phone maker wants to make sure that your phone is always useful. After all, you don't want to get stuck with a phone that isn't relevant for most of your contract time! With all of the options that are available, which phone would you choose--the one you can afford that keeps up or the one yo u can't afford that will only be shiny pretty soon?

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