Android operating system is the latest trend in mobile operating systems market. Google purchased Android from its original developer Android Inc. In the middle of year 2010, Google astonished every one by getting highest sales in the market of mobile OS. Market share for Android by April 2011 was nearly around 37%.

Today, Android is emerging as the most powerful custom-make mobile OS. It is one of the best available that allows used to customize their device. All Android devices are touch screen devices and have multiple screen panels that allows user to personalize their cell phone according their needs and usage.

Without a doubt, Android is a powerful mobile system with very high capabilities but still Google believed in keeping the Android easy and simple. Google made access to file menus as easy as one two three. The Android OS is made up of several programming languages. Since it is an open source program, one can develop applications using Java language and get them executed on Android operating system.

Multitasking in Android lets the user to run multiple applications at the same time to make best use of Android cell phone. One thing on which Android loses points is that the Android operating system does not have that much elegance and system integration as compared to the Apple’s iPhone iOS. But one thing that is sure is that it is a really powerful mobile platform coupled with the huge number of applications and features which meets the needs of all users.

All smart phones are just high tech cell phones. What makes these phones "smart" is that they are able to use various applications called "apps" in smart phone parlance. At this moment Android’s Marketplace has more than 300,000 applications of both free as well as paid kind. It is projected that by year-end of 2011 the Marketplace will have more than 400,000 such applications. This number is set to overtake Apple’s Appstore in terms of numbers. The growth of Android apps is by leaps and bounds.

In the earlier days of Android’s Marketplace, the apps available were often simple as well as unremarkable. But as more users buy and use the Android mobile OS platform, Apple app makers took noticed and begun to develop high quality apps for Android, or else port over their original IOS apps. Thus, quality and usability of Android apps have improved.

The Android mobile platform is so powerful and this fact makes Android operating system best for those who need a powerful, fast and full featured cell phone that can be customized to their liking. The fact that it is powerful with many great and unique features adds to its versatility as a smart phone.

Google is committed to continuously upgrading their mobile/tablet platforms and plan convergence of these 2 separate and distinct platforms to streamline apps development as well as software OS integrity. This direction will also eliminate earlier problems of OS splintering. To this end, Google has came up with a timelineroad map that it wants manufacturers as well as telcos to commit to ensure that consumers will not be left out of OS upgrading.