Android phones are the recent fad and craze that has taken over the mobile phone buyers. These phones are better known as smart phones using android technology with innumerable features and applications. Android mobiles are now the most commonly preferred mobile devices using cutting edge and advanced technology. It has proved to be a sought after phone segment world over with its attractive application downloading facility. Android itself is primarily an operating system based on Linux. This system was first developed by Google employee Andy Rubin and its growing popularity has only lead to increased membership number.
Android phones provide an affordable platform for downloading tools and applications from the internet at free of cost. One doesn’t need to pay for applications that are offered by android and can be downloaded without paying anything extra. Such applications are often developed by third party or those software professionals of a development company. These applications are created in keeping with different client requirements and are made with the help of technology which doesn’t require any licensing or permission. Such applications are again priced affordably and reasonably to create unique applications for the android market. Nowadays, most mobiles are in-built with such systems and are priced accordingly depending on the different features.
Android phones are built with an integrated advanced technology which provides the required platform for various applications. Several programs can also be combined through such android platform. Many-a-times, mobile development companies use android as a platform to combine programs or promote them. These phones are the most coveted and much in demand phones of the current generation. These kinds of phones are known for their multi-tasking, user-friendliness and multi-functionality. They are mainly run by the customized graphics in the 2D and 3D library designed with the use of OpenGL ES 1.0.
Android mobiles are designed to make tasks easier and enable it with proper security means for the sake of safety. These have a framework of featured applications which is used to reuse or replace the components of the phone. The phone browser is dependent on the engine for open source webkit and fitted with SQLite for storing data. These mobile phones are also enabled with media supportive formats like audio, video and other formats for still image like MPEG4, H.264, MP3, MP4, AAC etc. Such phones also had various add-on features like 3G, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, camera, GPS navigator and compass on the handsets.
Other integral features in these high-end, advanced handsets or mobiles are memory storage capacity, performance profiling, emulator, debugging tool and plug-ins. These phones are marked by features like sleek design, dual core application processor and Amoled display. Mobile brands like Sony offer personalized features like Timescape, messaging and application downloading facilities based on the android platform. Micromax also presents various android supportive features like touch screen, GPS navigation, android market, sensor etc. The other striking features of such mobile phones RAM capacity of 256MB, ROM of 512 MB, Flash, light sensor, Video Recording Resolution of 320×240 (QVGA), 16 GB expandable memory, 3.5 mm jack, bluetooth, USB port etc.