Friday, April 1, 2011

Challenges of Porting Android: Hardware-Software Integration

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Along with the growing of technology, consumers are expecting to get multi-tasking mobile phones with wireless Internet and multimedia entertainment applications even more. According to numbers from research firm Canalys for the fourth quarter of 2010, Android owned 32.9% of the worldwide smartphone market compared with iOS, which held 16% of the market. Google’s Android operating system has been phenomenal to be compatible with Apple iPhone currently because its growth rate of the market share and the unit sales are going up rapidly.