Last weekend celebrated his birthday on Android

On November 5, celebrated the birthday of Google's operating system, Android.

The Android platform was born with the goal of being a unified open source operating system for mobile devices (and here we should mean primarily the smartphone category rather than simple mobile phones). The idea was based on a Linux-based operating system that would be redesigned to be able to handle the integrated hardware of mobile devices (touch screen, WiFi, HSDPA, Bluetooth, etc.) without problems. The first steps did not involve Java, but Google bought a company called Android in July 2005 and gave it a new direction for development: a virtual machine was added over the Linux kernel to manage the user interface and run applications.

Of course, this did not go overnight, and Google in the first year worked very quietly, in early 2007 began to leak news that Google is entering the mobile market. Industry rumors eventually proved to be true, although in many cases we could read exaggerated claims and horror news on the news sites. On November 2007, XNUMX, the Open Handset Alliance announced the Android platform.

The first Android smartphone, the T-Mobile G1 manufactured by HTC, was unveiled to the general public a year later, on October 2008, 22. The system has undergone tremendous development over the past two years, and the latest news is that the latest version, 2.3, will arrive on the week of November 11th. It will be available to Nexus One owners first. We look forward to seeing you!

Source: Wikipedia