Androids used to be beings that were half human and half robot. However today, the term Android has taken on a different meaning. Many people think that an Android is a phone or a tablet computer but, it really isn’t. An Android is basically the operating system that powers some brands of smartphones and tablet computers. It is neither the phone itself nor the tablet computer – it’s the mechanism inside that makes these gadgets work.
Android was unveiled in 2007 with the foundation of the Open Handset Alliance. The Open Handset Alliance is a consortium of over 80 hardware, software and telecommunication companies that share the same vision of wanting to advance the open standards of mobile phone devices. In addition to designing the operating system, this community also developed applications (or apps) that extend the functionality of mobile devices that run on Android.
Today, there are over 250,000 Android applications and these can be downloaded from third-party sites of online stores such as the Android Market, an app store run by Google. Online stores that allow downloads of Android Apps or sell Android powered phones or tablets, should have sites that are on safe and reliable web hosts.
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