About: Android

Android is a mobile operating system runs on the Linux kernel. It was originally developed by Google and later the Open Handset Alliance. It allows developers to write Java code that handles the commands and the device through the Google-developed Java libraries.
The inauguration of the distribution Android November 5, 2007 was announced with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 50 hardware, software and telecommunications company dedicated to developing open standards for mobile devices. Google has released most of the code of Android under the Apache license, free software and open-source license.

In July 2005, Google Android, Inc., a start-up small businesses in Palo Alto was incorporated in California, USA. Android's Co-founder, went to work at Google included Andy Rubin (co-founder of Danger), Rich Miner (co-founder of Wildfire Communications, Inc.), Nick Sears (once VP at T-Mobile) and Chris White (lead design and development of an interface WebTV). At that time, little is known about the functions of Android were, Inc. when asked for software for mobile phones. This began rumors that Google might enter the mobile phone market, but it is unclear what role might exist in this market.
At Google, the team led by Rubin, a mobile platform, the Linux kernel that has put the market on the basis of mobile phone manufacturers and network operators on the principle that maintains a flexible and extensible.It was reported that Google has already made arrangements with a number of components of hardware and software partners and signaled he was open to airlines, to varying degrees of cooperation from them. More speculation that Google might enter the mobile phone market was in December 2006. Information from the BBC and The Wall Street Journal noted that Google wanted to research and applications on the phone and he was very keen to ensure that. Provide print and online soon reported rumors that Google was developing a Google-Lift brand. More speculation followed reporting that Google, as the technical specifications that have been set for the manufacturers and mobile network operators to show prototypes. No less than 30 prototype phone was reported that feral is in use"in the file. "
In September 2007, InformationWeek reported a decrease Evalueserve study that Google has filed several patents in the field of mobile telephony.