What is an android phone? The shorter answer for this question is: an android phone is a phone who use like operating system Google Android.
Android is billed as the mobile phone operating system that will change the way we use mobiles. Where traditionally, phones have all worked differently, with usability ranging from the passable to the infuriating, Android’s mission is to simplify, partially by devising a more intuitive interface, and also by making it so widely available that it becomes a standard.
Android is a mobile operating system running on the Linux kernel. It was initially developed by Google and later the Open Handset Alliance. It allows developers to write managed code in the Java language, controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries.
Sprint HTC Hero
The HTC Hero offers a highly customizable user interface thanks to HTC Sense. It also improves on past Android devices with Outlook e-mail, calendar, and contacts synchronization, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a 5-megapixel camera. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and 3G support are all onboard.
Underneath the fancy HTC Sense user interface, you’ve got one feature-packed smartphone running Android 1.5. While the HTC Hero can do many things, it wouldn’t be worth much if it couldn’t do the most basic and core function of a phone: making calls.
As a Google Android phone, the HTC Hero obviously supports a number of Google services like Google search, Google Maps, and Google Calendar, but it also comes with a number of standard personal information management tools, including a clock, a calculator, a voice recorder, and a PDF viewer.
In addition, you get a handful of extras, including Documents to Go, a Twitter app called Peep, and the new Facebook for Android, but you can have access to plenty more utilities and games through the Android Market, which now has more than 8,000 apps in the catalog. Unfortunately, you still can’t save apps to a microSD card – you must store them on the phone’s shared internal memory.
In addition to the Android goodies, Sprint throws in a few of its own services on the Hero, including Sprint Navigation, NFL Mobile Live, and Nascar Sprint Cup Mobile, which are all included with Sprint’s Simply Everything plan.
T-Mobile Motorola CLIQ
The CLIQ is Motorola’s first Android device, and has both a touchscreen and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. While it runs Google’s open-source OS, Motorola have developed a custom UI and social networking sync service called MOTOBLUR which funnels all of your various Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other information into one Happenings stream.
With integrated Google technology, CLIQ brings one-touch access to the popular Google mobile services, including Google Search by voice, Google Maps with Street View, YouTube and Picasa. CLIQ also provides easy access to both personal and corporate e-mail, calendars, and contacts supported by Exchange Server and Gmail. E-mail is also supported by Yahoo!, Windows Live Hotmail, and other POP3 and IMAP e-mail services.
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X3
Sony Ericsson’s first Android smartphone, the Rachael / Xperia X3 has a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 8MP camera, 4 inch WVGA display, 3.5mm headset jack and probably many other nice features.
Motorola Sholes
Sholes is a touchscreen phone with QWERTY keypad and is powered by Android. Motorola had moved to Android by skipping Windows Mobile.
Android phone from LG-GW620
LG-GW620 it’s the first LG android phone from LG. It will feature a 3-inch full touchscreen and slide out QWERTY keypad.
LG’s Android phone comes on the heels of its rival handset maker Motorola introducing an Android-based device of its own called Cliq. A feature-packed phone, the Cliq has a touch screen, physical slide-out keyboard, a 5-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, 3G connectivity, the ability to shoot video at 24 frames per second, a standard headphone jack and GPS capability. The device also sports a custom-designed user interface that integrates email, text messages, social networking feeds from sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace and photos.
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