Thursday, March 8, 2012

Google Android

Tight competition on IT service and Phone cellular operation, all network providers are trying to get new innovation on this era. All network providers feels afraid will loosing their customer on using their application and service. Google Inc. also want be the looser on this world competition, always try to develop and growing their business in many communication systems.

Android is a Linux-based operating system for mobile phones such as smart phones and Android tablet computer.provides an open platform for developers to create their own applications for use by a variety of mobile devices. Initially, Google Inc. buy Android Inc., new comers who make software for mobile phones. Then to develop Android, formed the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 34 companies for hardware, software, and telecommunications, include Google, HTC, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, T-Mobile, and Nvidia.

At the inaugural release of Android on 5 November 2007, Android together with Open Handset Alliance said it supported the development of open standards on mobile devices. On the other hand, Google released the Android code under the Apache license, a license is open standard software and mobile devices.

In this world there are two types of Android operating system distributors. The first fully supported by Google or Google Mail Services (GMS) and the second is a completely free distribution without the direct support of Google's otherwise known as the Open Handset Distribution (OHD).