Android is mobile operating system begin with the beta version on November 5, 2007.It was developed by Open handset alliance and commercially sponsored by Google .The first commercial version was released on September 23rd 2008 from that it started ruling mobile sectors.
Here, are the versions of Android from 1.0 - 10.
Android 1.0(API 1):
The first version of Android was released on September 23 2008 and it was launched on Android device HTC Dream. This is the first device that run with the Android operating system.
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The first mobile that allows to download the application with the pan full HTML and XHTML webpages.
But there are some lack on the quality of camera.
It supports protocols like
for email servers.
Application that supports on Android 1.0
Gmail
Google accounts
Google calendar
Google map with Street view
Google sync
Google search
Google talk and instant messaging text messaging and MMS.
Media player
YouTube
- It came with the Notifications on Status bar and option like Ringtone, LED, Vibrations are set there.
- And cool feature like Voice dialer is also introduced.
Android 1.1 (API 2):
This updated version of Android was released on February 9 2009 in HTC dream.
In this updated version of Android features like Reviews and Details displays while user searches for maps and businesses.
Ability to Show/Hide the Dial pad and Time-out by default when longer-in call.
Supports attachment to save in Messages.
Android 1.5 (Cupcake API 3):
This version of Android was released on April 27, 2009 . It was released based on Linux kernel 2.6.27 and the Codename Cupcake is given to this version.
In this New version of Android we can able to see the Virtual Third-party Keyboard with Dictionary.
- Supports Widgets.
- Supports Video recording and Playback in MP4 and 3GP format.
- Supports Auto-pairing and stereo in Bluetooth.
- Supports Copy and Paste feature in Web-browsers.
- Supports Animated Screen Transitions.
- Supports Auto-rotation option.
- Supports to upload videos to YouTube.
- Ability to check phone usage history.
- Supports Multi-lingual Speech Synthesis engine to allow Android application speaks a string of text.
- Supports Screenshot feature.
- Fully Integrated Camera and Camcorder with faster Camera access.
- Ability for Multiple selections of photos for deletion.