Happy Birthday for Android | Fourth Birthday

Happy Birthday for Android | Google will celebrate the 4th year for Android. In relatively short time, more than 500 million Android devices have been activated worldwide.

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With 1.3 million new Android devices activated each day. Android also managed to become the most dominant mobile operating system, with a global market share of 68 per cent or four times larger than Apple's market share, according to data from IDC's second quarter. The two most popular mobile operating systems have a combined market share of 85 percent.

The first version of this operating system, Android 1.0, was released on 23 September 2008. Subsequent versions, which brings improvements and new features were added, followed, namely:

-Android 1.1 (Februari 2009),
-Android 1.5 "Cupcake" (30 April 2009),
-Android 1.6 "Donut" (1 September 2009),
-Android 2.0/2.1 "Eclair" (26 Oktober 2009),
-Android 2.2 "Froyo" (20 Mei 2010),
-Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" (6 Desember 2010),
-Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" (22 Februari 2011),
-Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" (19 Oktober 2011), dan
-Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean" (27 Juni 2012).

Happy Birthday for Android. Android history can be traced back to well before the time of its first appearance, at a time when Rich Miner, Andy Rubin, Nick Sears, and Chris White co-founded a company called Android in October 2003, nearly nine years ago.

Android then joined Google, when the Internet giant bought the company for 50 million dollars in August 2005.

The first Android phone released to the market is the HTC Dream, which is known as the T-Mobile G1 in the U.S. market. Although relatively slow even for that time, the phone is equipped with a processor speed of 384 MHz and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard is successfully sold 1 million units in April 2009.

Today, the most advanced Android devices such as the LG Optimus M and the Samsung Galaxy Note II, each of which has been reinforced with quad-core processor, Qualcomm, Snapdragon and Samsung Exynos.

Along with iOS, Android has become the most popular mobile operating system in the world. Unless Microsoft managed to take a large enough portion of the Windows Phone 8 start later this year, the trend is likely to continue. (Teknokompas)