Sunday, September 25, 2011

Guide To Android with The Players, Andy Rubin

For abounding of you this may be accepted ability but to those of you that are new to Android or just seek added ability we are starting a new articulation alleged adviser to Android.

Andy Rubin (Vice President of Engineering/Android at Google)
Andy Rubin is no drifter to buzz operating systems. His acquaintance afore Android is in fact an important allotment of Android and smartphone OS’s as we apperceive them. Rubin began his career at Angel in 1989. After angel he went to plan on WebTV.

Andy Rubin larboard WebTV which was acquired by Microsoft. After which he, forth with ally Joe Britt and Matt Hershenson founded Danger. Danger was the aggregation that developed the Danger Hip Top accessory which a lot of of us apperceive as the T-Mobile Sidekick. Danger was founded in 2000 and the aboriginal Sidekick debuted in 2002. T-Mobile clearly retired the Sidekick as we apperceive it in 2010 and appear that Microsoft would stop acknowledging the Sidekick servers this spring.

The T-Mobile Sidekick (also accepted as the mobiflip elsewhere) featured a quick absolution accelerate out qwerty keyboard for which the buzz took it’s name. In agreement of software, operating arrangement and performance, with it’s absolution in 2002 it was in fact advanced of it’s time. You see while anybody is angry for the best billow based this and billow based that, the Sidekick stored aggregate in the Cloud.
In 2003 Rubin founded Android with accomplice Rich Miner with the ambition to actualize “…smarter adaptable accessories that are added acquainted of its owner’s area and preferences.” In the aboriginal phases of Android, Rubin kept it added backstairs than an Angel absolution alone cogent humans they were alive on software for adaptable phones.

In 2005 Google acquired Android and it’s employees, including Rubin who backward on and became the Vice President of Engineering and the Android lead. After the Android aggregation was in abode at Google the rumors started bustling up everywhere but not that Google was alive on an Operating System, but that they were alive on a phone.

It was no abstruse that Google saw things alive to adaptable and by accepting in the adaptable amplitude they provided themselves with added opportunities to serve the seek and commercial needs of consumers and companies. The Android aggregation at Google developed an operating arrangement based on the Linux Kernel.

Google began analytic out OEM and carrier ally for it’s new operating system, all the while the media was confined up a aberration of abstract belief about a Google branded or Google produced adaptable device. Things came to a arch if in 2007 it was broadly appear that Google had filed several patents all of which were in the adaptable space.

On November 5, 2007 the Accessible Handset Alliance appear it’s founding as a bunch of OEM and carrier ally to advance accessible standards for adaptable devices. It’s absorbing to agenda that T-Mobile and Sprint Nextel were the alone carrier ally if the Accessible Handset Alliance was formed.

T-Mobile was the aggregation that partnered with Andy Rubin’s antecedent company, Danger, to absolution the hiptop, “Sidekick” which was the a lot of accepted customer axial smartphones of it’s time. In the aboriginal allotment of the decade Blackberry was even added geared for business. It wasn’t until Blackberry appear the Pearl, and Curve curve that they were perceived as for non business humans as well.
On October 22, 2008 T-Mobile appear the aboriginal Android accessory the G1. There are currently over 180 accessories active some anatomy of Android.

T-Mobile appear the chase up to the G1, appropriately called the G2. Later this bounce they are accepted to absolution the G2X as able-bodied as the new Sidekick 4G, this time active Android. It’s like a ancestor getting reunited with his continued absent child.

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