1、中文 3050 字 ,1880 单词， 1 万英文字符 出处： Gandhewar N, Sheikh R. Google Android: An emerging software platform for mobile devicesJ. International Journal on Computer Science and Engineering, 2010, 1(1): 12-17. Google Android: An Emerging Software Platform For Mobile Devices Nisarg Gandhewar1, Rahi
2、la Sheikh2 Abstract Mobile phone usage has been increasing dramatically over the last several years. Globally, if a usage comparison can be carried out between PCs and mobile devices. Mobile devices have approximately 3.5 times more usage than PCs. But cell phone in todays society is not only
3、a tool for making call and writing SMS, but its a personal item which provides entertainment and information. There should be nothing that users can access on their desktop that they cant access on their cell phone. The increasing importance of mobile devices has triggered intense competition among
4、technology giants, like Symbian, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Nokia in a bid to capture the bigger market share for mobile platform. So Google launched Android, an open source software platform for mobile devices consisting of an operating system, middleware and key applications. Since its official
5、 public release, Android has captured the interest from companies, developers and the general audience. This paper intends to explore different perspectives, features & suitability of android for mobile devices & comparison between Android, Symbian & Windows mobile OS. Keywords: An
6、droid, Symbian, Windows Mobile, Middleware, Open source software platform. I. INTRODUCTION Android is a software stack for mobile devices which includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. Since its official public release, Android has captured the interest from companies, developers and the general audience. From that time up to now, this software platform has been constantly improved either in terms of features or supported hardware and, at the same time, extended to new types of devices different fr
