Google bought Android from Android Inc. in 2005, and that was the begging of Android history. Today Android OS is the best-selling mobile platform, dethroning Nokia’s Symbian from top position. Major advantage of Android OS is the wide variety of apps (applications) that extend the functionality of device running on Android OS. Latest version Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) bring the following improvements :
- UI refinements for simplicity and speed
- One-touch word selection and copy/paste
- Faster, more intuitive text input
- Improved power management
- New ways of communicating, organizing
Also there are new features for developers, like enhances for gaming, new form of communications, and much more.
So the question remains, will Android remain only a mobile-based OS, we will just have to wait and see.