| AT&T has the iPhone and until just recently the | | | | portion of the market back from Apple. |
| smart phone Goliath was king of the castle. Back in | | | | Here are some comparisons between the |
| late October, Verizon Wireless unleashed the | | | | technologies. |
| Motorola Droid, a device that runs on the android | | | | Android: |
| platform. Another Android phone gaining a great deal | | | | Operating system: Android OS that uses a modified |
| of hype is the Nexus One by Google. Apple actually | | | | version of Linux kernel. Originally developed by |
| went after Google with a patent lawsuit. It's no | | | | Android, Inc. and recently purchased by Google; |
| secret that Apple's Steve Jobs and Google CEO Eric | | | | Allows developers to write managed code in Java.; |
| Schmidt aren't very fond of one another. The Google | | | | Allows users to multi-task. |
| CEO was asked to step down from the Apple Board | | | | Phones available on the Android platform: Motorola |
| and an Anti-trust investigation was started. Schmidt | | | | droid, HTC Nexus One, HTC Eris, HTC Hero,HTC |
| said he wanted to "Kill the iPhone" and Jobs to | | | | Tattoo, MyTouch 3G, LG Eve just to name a |
| offense to that saying something along the lines of, | | | | few.iPhone: |
| "We didn't enter the search game, they entered the | | | | Operating system: iPhone OS-Derived from the Mac |
| phone game so they clearly want to kill the iPhone." | | | | OS X, shares the Darwin foundation. The OS has |
| So the war of words had begun. The Google Nexus | | | | four abstraction layers, the core OS layer, the core |
| One is already available on the T-Mobile and AT&T | | | | services layer, the media layer and the cocoa touch |
| networks and will be available for the Verizon | | | | layer. The OS uses less than500 MB of the device's |
| network in the second quarter of 2010. With Apple | | | | memory. Unable to multi-task. |
| being the first player in the touch screen mobile | | | | Phones available on the iPhone platform: Apple iPhone |
| device arena there hasn't been a worthy adversary | | | | From just looking at these stats, I think the Android |
| until now. | | | | Platform is going to be the next big thing with smart |
| The new Android platform is growing by leaping and | | | | phones. The iPhone just seems so locked up and |
| bounds everyday and many mobile app developers | | | | controlled. I know you can "jailbreak" the iPhone but |
| are creating iPhone apps but also latching on to the | | | | who wants to do that to their device? I really like |
| android platform. One of the drawbacks to the | | | | the Nexus One, it has a sleek design and has the |
| Android platform early on was that the Apple App | | | | ability to multi-task. I know the apps aren't to level of |
| Store dwarfed that of Android but over the recent | | | | the iPhone just yet, but give them time and I'm sure |
| months more and more Android apps are becoming | | | | they will be more than worthy in a year or so. |
| available and Android is actually taking a decent | | | | |