Android Phones – New iPhone Competitor

Different phone companies are finding ways to compete with iPhone and lots of phone models are launched, giving its threat to hot selling phone made by Apple. Today, when it comes to operating system that can be an iPhone competitor, Android is said to be a hot stuff. Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. Google Inc. purchased the initial developer of the software, Android Inc., in 2005.If Apple has created its own operating system, Microsoft has Window Mobiles for Pocket PC and now, Android is here which is based on a modified version of the Linux kernel. Google and other members of the Open Handset Alliance collaborated on Android’s development and release.We can say that Android has achieved its dream to be an iPhone competitor since it has become the world’s best-selling Smartphone platform today. When it comes to Android phones, there are different Smartphone companies that are using the operating system for their new phone models. You can have Motorola, HTC, Samsung, LG and many more which are now using Android operating system on their chosen phone models.