As a lean, highly customizable, and highly transparent mobile OS, Android has topped Apple’s iPhone OS, Palm’s WebOS, and certainly Microsoft’s Windows Mobile to become the top smartphone platform.
As the hottest new platform lately, Android has been getting a lot of support, both officially and otherwise. For instance, after rooting my Droid Incredible, an active user / developer base has been keeping me busy installing all kinds of new features. WiFi tethering and a VPN client are child’s play. Overclocking and “undervolting” the Qualcomm 1GHz processor have even become commonplace.
With the release of Android 2.2, Google is leading the pack in terms of support for Flash content. Even though Verizon customers may be waiting some time for an official 2.2 update to their handset (especially those of us with the HTC Sense UI add-on), rooted phones always reap the benefits long in advanced.
I’ll be posting more impressions of certain features of the Android platform, but for now, suffice it to say I’ll be a member of the Android bandwagon for quite some time.
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