The Android operating system is even 10 years old on September 23 yesterday. The operating system made by Andy Rubin et al. It has already passed through a wide array of development until now.
The first true Android project already revealed at the 2007 Legenda, however on September 23, 2008 for the first time Android 1.0 was officially announced. At that time the HTC Dream of becoming a pilot project the world's first Android phone.
In the past 10 years, Android to date being the most dominant operating system. Globally berdasrakan research NetMarketShare, Android has a market share of 68.39 percent.
For 10 years the Android experience a change in line with the needs and the development of the times.
Speaking of change, it turns out there are a few features that are retained since the first version of Android was developed. Here are the 5 features of Android 1.0 which is still used today.
Android Market (Google Play Store)
At the time of the HTC Dream phone is launched, already have a store application called Android Market installed in it. At that time there were only 13 applications available and all for free.
When the Android Market opened in General to the developers, this is where the number of applications increased significantly. Within the next four months until the end of 2008 there were 200 recorded applications are listed there.
In 2012, Google Play then born. This application combines store Android Market with Google Music, Google eBookstore and Android Market simultaneously.
Synchronization Applications
Since the first Android operating system release, it already has a Sync feature. Although when it's the applications that have this feature can still be counted on the fingers.
Some applications that have the features of sync on first Android is Google Contacts, Gmail and Google Calendar. Then along with the development, there are quite a lot of applications that have this feature such as Microsoft Outloook.
Data synchronization feature does look like things that are trivial but this feature is one of the foundations of the beginning of the era of smart phones.
Organizing Application
Since it was first released, Android already has organizing applications better than iOS. One example is the existence of app dining drawer.
App dining drawer is a page that serves as a gathering place for the application. App dining drawer function displays all the applications installed on the device.
In this app users can also dining drawer put the applications that are installed in accordance with their respective categories. For example the category of messaging, tools, etc. This feature still maintained to this day.
SMS and MMS
In 2008, SMS and MMS still dominates as way messaging among mobile users. Because at that time the application and chat features are still not widely used by the user.
Quoted from Android Authority, Monday (24/9/2018), when first released, Android already has a technologist MMS enables users to Exchange multimedia messages. In contrast to the new iOS can adopt these technologies in 2009 when the iPhone 3Gs is present.
Although currently more widely used chat applications, this feature can still be found on Android phones today.
Taskbar Notifications
All phones certainly have the notification feature. But the report brought the first Android since version different from the others.
At first, all the Android notification either phone, SMS, or other notice placed on the one place that can be accessed by way of wiping the screen from top to bottom. And this became one of the features that is seeded at that time.
The notification bar is already present since the first Android on the HTC Dream was born and is still maintained to this day.
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