Smartphones

 

The 21st century miracle.

Google's android.

Apple's ios

In the early 2000s the mobile phones were only known for simple calling and texting, and yeah that’s what they were seriously meant for. But today the possibilities are getting endless it’s not just a bar meant for calling and texting it’s getting far more complex with the legendary microprocessors and operating systems. With the launch of mighty iphone on 2007 the mobile market got changed rapidly. It brought the downfall of companies like Nokia and Blackberry which dominated the global market for a decade and created new possibilities for small manufactures to stand up with new concepts. In the beginning of the smartphone era the Apple iphone dominated the entire market till 2010, Apple was the first to make a digital app store for mobiles and they were the first to create a successful touchscreen eco system for the users. But after 2010 there was bang in smartphone market although Android was there since 2008 with its cupcake and doughnut but the biggest game changer was the Samsung galaxy series, Samsung launched a big series of smartphone lineup which suited everybody’s pocket. Now anyone can get a smartphone with paying a fraction of iphone’s price. The number of smartphone users grew very rapidly that no one ever imagined. With time new and more powerful devices came into existence first into dual core processing into quad core and then the octacore, the size of the RAM also got increased since then. But companies like Nokia and Blackberry lost their market share very rapidly because there were still stuck with Symbian and proprietary Os. During Q3 of 2012 all app developers realized that android has also got the same potential like ios do. Today every app developer releases his apps first on the major platforms ios and android. Google has benefited a lot from the sales of android devices as it sells ads to us. Today the android platform has got so affordable that you can buy a new functional android device from 2500 indian rupees (roughly 41USD). So those who can’t get a flagship device also have the access to android. Although there are more players on the smartphone market rather than android; Ios (the most dominant), Windows phone, Firefox os, Ubuntu, Blackberry Os, Bada but android is the most widely used mobile operating system (ios giving the toughest competition to android), this is just because of the flexibility of android. The problem with the other manufactures is that they have their own proprietary OS ( like Blackberry OS, Symbian, Firefox os, ios) but in android things are little different you can get an android device from a cheap manufacturer like Lava to a high end world class manufacturer like Vertu that is the difference with android. It is the strongest point of android and the weakest also as different manufactures provides different kind of adulterations like Custom skins ( Samsung’s Touchwiz, Sony’s Timescape, HTC’s sense) and lot of bloat ware apps. Although Apple’s Ios , I would say still is one of the most securest and reliable Os of the smartphone market but things are changing. Who thought that android will such a big player in the market? With the introduction of smartphones now people can do the things which were only possible in Pc , just like working with office documents, playing pc games of 2000s , video editing, image editing, etc etc. The possibilities are endless with the rising age of technology.