Mobile Phone Operating Systems: Symbian Os, Android, Mobile Operating System, Webos, S60, Cyanogenmod, Symbian Platform, Blackberry Os

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Chapters: Symbian Os, Android, Mobile Operating System, Webos, S60, Cyanogenmod, Symbian Platform, Blackberry Os, Symbian Foundation, Ophone, Ubuntu Mobile, Bada, Meego, Openmoko Linux, Stable Hybrid Release, Nokia Os, Gdfs. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 110. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Android is an operating system and software stack for mobile devices that includes middleware and key applications, and uses a modified version of the Linux kernel. It was initially developed by Android Inc., a firm later purchased by Google, and lately by the Open Handset Alliance. It allows developers to write managed code in the Java language, controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries. The unveiling of the Android distribution on 5 November 2007 was announced with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 65 hardware, software, and telecom companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices. Google released most of the Android code under the Apache License, a free software and open source license. On 13 May 2010 Google announced that 65,000 cell phones with Android were being shipped every day. According to NPD Group, unit sales for Android OS smartphones ranked second among all smartphone OS handsets sold in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2010. BlackBerry OS and the Android OS ranked first and second respectively. Android at Googleplex.In July 2005, Google acquired Android, Inc., a small startup company based in Palo Alto, California, USA. Android's co-founders who went to work at Google included 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). At the time, little was known about the functions ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12610483