Article by Mobile Fanatics
Smartphones have gained much more place in our daily lives then ever before. By their very nature they offer some amazing benefits which ease out our busy lives. In the past many Operating systems have been used in smartphones like the Symbian OS, Windows Pocket PC OS, Palm OS Treo and BlackBerry OS.
Since 2007 there has been a revolution in the smartphone market. By the introduction of iPhone by Apple smartphones reached next level of excellence as it was the first phone which was completely touch controlled among other features. Though when released in 2007, it lacked support for 3rd party applications. Unless , you did the process of jailbreak you couldn’t run 3rd party applications which was a major downside of Apple iPhone.
The emergence of Android
In 2008, Android emerged as an open source platform backed by Google. It gained quick popularity and HTC Dream emerged as the first smartphone to have Android OS.
Some of the benefits on Android are:
* Can be used with third party applications * Offers Android Market: Applications can be downloaded without having to use a PC. Contains over 200,000 applications. * Multitasking * Allows tethering ; which means you can use your smartphone as a wireless hot-spot. * Offers Multi-touch support * Bluetooth support for sending contacts and voice dialing. * Flash support * Swift Web browser