Android OS categories: operating systems Overview
In the trade there is in addition to Android Smartphones and iOS equipment. In addition, you can find mobile phones with less common systems like Windows Phone OS or Blackberry OS.
- The Smartphones and Tablets of Apple, the company run under the operating system iOS.
- However, all of the smart phones of the brands Samsung, Sony or HTC to run the Android operating system, also called the "Android OS". This System comes from Google, but it is changed by the individual phone manufacturers always something.
- On the Smartwatches, a derived Version of the "Android OS"-operating system called the run "Android Wear".
- A operating system you also know from your Computer: Here is the Windows run on the conventional devices operating systems Windows 8, Windows 7, or MacOS, or Linux.
- An operating system is a large Software that is required by the relevant Hardware, to be able to the system resources process is basically.
- In an operating system, multiple computers are most of the time, programs and features integrated in Android OS:
Android OS vs iOS
Android OS - what can it do?
The different Android versions and their names
The first Version of the operating system now comes to the year 2008. The Version, Android 1.0 is also under the name of "Apple Pie" is known.
- For this purpose, The Android is says: versions arrange themselves according to the Alphabet, and are always named after a Dessert (in the English language).
- Was invented in Android by software developer Andy Rubin. However, already in 2005, the company Google bought in 2003, founded the company.
- The latest Android Version 5, called the "Lollipop" is its successor, currently called just "Android M". Whether behind the "M" well, "Muffin", Milkshake," or any other dairy food is hidden, is not yet known.
Android 5.0: Lollipop
For more detailed information on the Features of the Android 5 can you find in a further article.
