Reasons why Android has become the best operating system for mobile devices

Android is a leading operating system for smartphones, tablets and other products like music players. The Linux kernel-based open source software from Google is now slowly making domination in global technology markets thanks to lots of products running on the platform. The software is certainly expected to make inroads into the market supremacy of Apple iOS products. According to a recent IDC survey, Android OS is to top Apple iOS in next four years. Even Microsoft Windows Phone will be in the second spot in competition to Android, IDC says.

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Why it is best for Mobile phones

Android software has been acclaimed as a perfect option for smartphones. There are hundreds of top-notch smartphones from multiple manufactures running on Android. Since Android is an open source software, manufactures can run it on any of their products. That means more people get access into the Android platform on smartphones.

Android offers a new experience on smartphones. The software realizes nice functioning of your device. Indeed, there are too many applications for Android OS on smartphones. Though lagging behind Apple App Store in number of applications, Android Market has thousands of applications for various purposes.

Since the software is from the online behemoth Google, all online services of Google have enough importance on the platform. Google Search, YouTube, Picasa Web and several other popular Google services will run smoothly on Android devices.

Android on smartphones is becoming a great choice of customers. Since the software lets third-party manufactures run their user interfaces on their products, customers have extensive options. Samsung can run its TouchWiz, HTC can run its Sense UI and Motorola can run its Moto Blur for a new experience on their device.

Samsung Galaxy S II, Motorola Droid Bionic, HTC Sensation 4G and HTC myTouch 4G are some of leading Android smartphones in the market right now. These Android smartphones raise huge threat to Apple iPhone.

Why it is best for Tablets

With the arrival of iPad in 2010, the tablet frenzy started in the world. Soon after the tablet from Apple, several technology manufactures rolled out several tablets on Android. Since tablets have larger display and different user interface, Google brought out a special version of its Android. It is called Android 2.3 Honeycomb. The software was also warmly welcomed by tablet users for its smoother functioning.

Android brings better multitasking, speed and enhanced camera features on tablets. More than everything, Android supports Adobe Flash Player. This is the feature that makes Android different from Apple iOS, which does not notoriously support Flash contents.

Leading Android tablets in the market are Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Motorola Xoom, HTC Flayer, and several others. With Android, you can enjoy Web surfing, image sharing and video watching more interesting on tablets. So like with the smartphones, there are enough applications for tablets running on Android. Several more tablets are to appear in the market on Android in challenge to Apple iOS and Windows tablets.