Android is a powerful operating system competing with Apple 4GS and supports great features. Few of them are listed below:
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| Android OS basic screen provides a beautiful and intuitive user interface. |
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| GSM/EDGE, IDEN, CDMA, EV-DO, UMTS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, LTE, NFC and WiMAX. |
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| SQLite, a lightweight relational database, is used for data storage purposes. |
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| H.263, H.264, MPEG-4 SP, AMR, AMR-WB, AAC, HE-AAC, AAC 5.1, MP3, MIDI, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, JPEG, PNG, GIF, and BMP |
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| SMS and MMS |
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| Based on the open-source WebKit layout engine, coupled with Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine supporting HTML5 and CSS3. |
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| Android has native support for multi-touch which was initially made available in handsets such as the HTC Hero. |
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| User can jump from one task to another and same time various application can run simultaneously. |
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| Widgets are resizable, so users can expand them to show more content or shrink them to save space |
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| Supports single direction and bi-directional text. |
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| Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is a service that lets
developers send short message data to their users on Android devices,
without needing a proprietary sync solution. |
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| A technology that lets apps discover and pair directly, over a high-bandwidth peer-to-peer connection. |
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| A popular NFC-based technology that lets users instantly share, just by touching two NFC-enabled phones together. |
