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• Accelerometer
• Aldiko
  Aldiko
  Aldiko is an e-book reader application for the Android operating system. It supports the EPUB format for digital publications and incorporates facilities for browsing online catalogs on thousands of books and downloading them directly into the user's personal library...
  
  
• Alex Reader
  Alex Reader
  The Alex eReader is an e-book reader created by Spring Design. As with the Barnes & Noble Nook, the Alex features two screens. The upper is a 6-inch monochrome electronic ink screen and the lower is a 3.5 inch HVGA touch screen color LCD. The device has Wi-Fi and mobile network connectivity and...
  
  
• Amazon MP3
  Amazon MP3
  Amazon MP3 is an online music store owned and operated by Amazon.com. Launched in public beta on September 25, 2007, in January 2008 it became the first music store to sell music without digital rights management from the four major music labels , as well as many independents...
  
  
• Android (operating system)
• Android Open Accessory Development Kit
• Android software development
  Android software development
  Android software development is the process by which new applications are created for the Android operating system. Applications are usually developed in the Java programming language using the Android Software Development Kit, but other development tools are available. As of April 2011 more than...
  
  
• Android version history
  Android version history
  The version history of the Android operating system began with the release of Android 1.0 in September 2008. Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance, and has seen a number of updates since its original release. These updates to the base operating...
  
  
• Apache Harmony
  Apache Harmony
  Apache Harmony was an open source, free Java implementation, developed by the Apache Software Foundation. It was announced in early May 2005 and on October 25, 2006, the Board of Directors voted to make Apache Harmony a top-level project...
  
  
• APK (file format)
  APK (file format)
  Android application package file is the file format used to distribute and install application software and middleware onto the Google's Android operating system. To make an APK file, a program for Android is first compiled, and then all of its parts are packaged into one file...
  
  
• Application development
• Architel
  Architel
  Architel Holdings LLC is an American professional services company. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Architel provides computer and network support. Architel operates multiple data center and network operation facilities with personnel in more than six countries around the globe...
  
  
• Archos Internet Media Tablet
  Archos Internet Media Tablet
  The Archos Generation 6 product series is represented by misc "Internet Media Tablets" or "IMT", e.g. the Archos 5 Internet Media Tablet . This series of tablet computers developed by the French company Archos that features a resistive touchscreen for video, photo, audio, internet browsing and...
  
  

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• Babelgum
  Babelgum
  Babelgum is a free to view Internet television platform supported by advertising. The project was set up in 2005 by Italian media and telecommunications entrepreneur Silvio Scaglia and scientist Erik Lumer, with the aim of developing interactive software for distributing TV shows and other forms...
  
  
• Barnes & Noble nook
  Barnes & Noble nook
  The Nook 1st Edition is a brand of electronic-book readers developed by American book retailer Barnes & Noble, based on the Android platform. The original device was announced in the United States in October 2009, and was released the next month...
  
  
• Biblical software
• Bluetooth profile
  Bluetooth profile
  A Bluetooth profile is a wireless interface specification for Bluetooth-based communication between devices.In order to use Bluetooth technology, a device must be compatible with the subset of Bluetooth profiles necessary to use the desired services. A Bluetooth profile resides on top of the...
  
  
• Bionic (software)
  Bionic (software)
  The Bionic libc is a derivation of the BSD standard C library code that was originally developed by Google for the Android embedded system operating system. Bionic has several major Linux-specific features and development continues independent of other code bases...
  
  

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• Cloud computing
  Cloud computing
  Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....
  
  
• Comparison of netbooks
  Comparison of netbooks
  These tables provide a comparison of netbooks. See also the comparison of subnotebooks, as there is significant overlap between these categories.Aspects of netbooks that should be considered:...
  
  
• Comparison of smartphones
  Comparison of smartphones
  -Hardware and OS:-Networks and connectivity:...
  
  
• Computing platform
• CyanogenMod
  CyanogenMod
  CyanogenMod is an after-market replacement for the firmware of over sixty cell phones and Internet tablets. Based on the Android mobile computer operating system, it offers features and options not found in the official firmware distributed by vendors of these devices.Features supported by...
  
  

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• Dalvik virtual machine
  Dalvik virtual machine
  Dalvik is the process virtual machine in Google's Android operating system. It is the software that runs the apps on Android phones. Dalvik is thus an integral part of Android, which is typically used on mobile devices such as mobile phones, tablet computers and netbooks. Programs are commonly...
  
  
• Db4o (object database)
• Developer Challenge
  Android Developer Challenge
  The Android Developer Challenge was launched by Google in 2008, with the aim of providing awards for high-quality mobile applications built on the Android platform. In November 2009, the winners of Android Developers Challenge II were selected after two rounds of scoring by thousands of Android...
  
  
• Dev Phone
  Android Dev Phone
  The Android Dev Phone is a SIM-unlocked and hardware-unlocked Android device that is designed for advanced developers. While developers can use regular consumer devices purchased at retail to test and use their apps, some developers may choose not to use a retail device, preferring an unlocked or...
  
  
• Digital newspaper technology
• Droid (font)
  Droid (font)
  Droid is a font family created by Ascender Corporation for use by the Open Handset Alliance platform Android and licensed under the Apache License. The fonts are intended for use on the small screens of mobile handsets and were designed by Steve Matteson of Ascender Corporation...
  
  

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• Git (software)
  Git (software)
  Git is a distributed revision control system with an emphasis on speed. Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on...
  
  
• Google Code
  Google Code
  Google Code is Google's site for developer tools, APIs and technical resources. The site contains documentation on using Google developer tools and APIs—including discussion groups and blogs for developers using Google's developer products....
  
  
• Google Fast Flip
  Google Fast Flip
  Google Fast Flip was an online news aggregator from Google Inc. that mimicked the experience of flicking through a newspaper or magazine, allowing visual search of stories in manner similar to microfiche...
  
  
• Google Maps
  Google Maps
  Google Maps is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, free , that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit, and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API...
  
  
• Google Talk
  Google Talk
  Google Talk is a freeware voice over Internet protocol client application offered by Google Inc. The first beta version of the program was released on August 24, 2005...
  
  
• Google TV
  Google TV
  Google TV is a Smart TV platform from Google. It was announced on May 20, 2010, at Google’s Google I/O event and was co-developed by Google, Intel, Sony and Logitech...
  
  
• Galaxy Nexus
  Galaxy Nexus
  The Galaxy Nexus is a touchscreen slate Android smartphone developed by a partnership between Samsung and Google. The phone and operating system were developed collaboratively by engineers from both companies. It is the third generation successor to Google’s previous flagship phones, the Nexus One...
  
  

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• HTC Blue Angel
  HTC Blue Angel
  The HTC Blue Angel is a GSM Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition PDA-phone, manufactured by High Tech Computer Corporation. It has a CDMA EVDO variant called the HTC Harrier, the Harrier does not have Wi-Fi like the Blue Angel does. Both have the same housing...
  
  
• HTC Desire
  HTC Desire
  The HTC Desire is a smartphone developed by the HTC Corporation, announced on 16 February 2010 and released in Europe and Australia in the second quarter of the same year. The HTC Desire runs the Android operating system, version 2.2 "Froyo"...
  
  
• HTC Dream
  HTC Dream
  The HTC Dream is an Internet-enabled smartphone with an operating system designed by Google and hardware designed by HTC...
  
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• HTC Hero
  HTC Hero
  The HTC Hero is the third phone manufactured by the HTC Corporation for the Android platform, as part of the A series...
  
  
• HTC Magic
  HTC Magic
  The HTC Magic is a smartphone designed and manufactured by HTC Corporation. It is the second HTC device to run the Android software stack, after the HTC Dream. Vodafone unveiled the Magic on February 17, 2009 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona...
  
  
• HTC Incredible
• HTC Inspire 4G
• HTC Sense
  HTC Sense
  HTC Sense is a graphical user interface developed by HTC Corporation for mobile devices running Android, Brew and Windows Mobile.Based on the TouchFLO 3D design, HTC has referred to HTC Sense as both a user interface in itself and also as a user experience layer on top of TouchFLO 3D.Announced June...
  
  
• HTC Tattoo
  HTC Tattoo
  The HTC Tattoo is a phone manufactured by the HTC Corporation for the Android platform. It is the second phone to feature the HTC Sense interface. The phone was announced on 8 September 2009....
  
  
• HTC Touch Pro2
  HTC Touch Pro2
  The HTC Touch Pro2 is a slate smartphone, part of the Touch series of Internet-enabled, Windows Mobile, Pocket PC smartphones designed and marketed by HTC Corporation of Taiwan...
  
  
• HTC Wildfire
  HTC Wildfire
  The HTC Wildfire is a smartphone developed by the HTC Corporation, that was announced on 17 May 2010 and released in Europe in June of the same year. It is powered by a 528 MHz Qualcomm processor and runs the Android operating system, version 2.2. It includes an TFT LCD capacitive touchscreen...
  
  

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• Java Virtual Machine
  Java Virtual Machine
  A Java virtual machine is a virtual machine capable of executing Java bytecode. It is the code execution component of the Java software platform. Sun Microsystems stated that there are over 4.5 billion JVM-enabled devices.-Overview:...
  
  
• Java (programming language)
  Java (programming language)
  Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
  
  
• Java Platform, Micro Edition
  Java Platform, Micro Edition
  Java Platform, Micro Edition, or Java ME, is a Java platform designed for embedded systems . Target devices range from industrial controls to mobile phones and set-top boxes...
  
  
• Javaground
  Javaground
  Javaground is the provider of a suite of development and porting tools for the mobile games industry called the Xpress Suite. The company is also a developer of mobile games...
  
  

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• LastPass
  LastPass
  LastPass Password Manager is a freemium password management program developed by LastPass. It is available as a plugin for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, and Safari...
  
  
• libc
• LiMo Foundation
  LiMo Foundation
  The LiMo Foundation is an non-profit technology consortium organization dedicated to creating the first truly open, hardware-independent, Linux-based mobile operating system for smartphone mobile devices...
  
  
• Linux
  Linux
  Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
  
  
• Linux Phone Standards Forum
  Linux Phone Standards Forum
  The Linux Phone Standards Forum is a consortium of a group of companies to create standards for the use of Linux on mobile devices. The main goal of the LiPS Forum is to create application programming interfaces that will allow developers to build applications to inter-operate across Linux...
  
  
• Linux kernel
  Linux kernel
  The Linux kernel is an operating system kernel used by the Linux family of Unix-like operating systems. It is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software....
  
  
• List of Android devices
• List of digital distribution platforms for mobile devices
• List of Open Source Android Applications
• List of operating systems
• Location-based game
  Location-based game
  A location-based game is one in which the game play somehow evolves and progresses via a player's location. Thus, location-based games almost always support some kind of localization technology, for example by using satellite positioning like GPS."Urban gaming" or "Street Games" are typically...
  
  

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• Maemo
  Maemo
  Maemo is a software platform developed by the Maemo community for smartphones and Internet tablets. It is based on the Debian Linux distribution, but has no relation to it...
  
  
• Mobile development
  Mobile development
  Mobile application development is the process by which application software is developed for small low-power handheld devices such as personal digital assistants, enterprise digital assistants or mobile phones...
  
  
• Mobile browser
• Mobile game
  Mobile game
  A mobile game is a video game played on a mobile phone, smartphone, PDA, tablet computer or portable media player. This does not include games played on handheld video game systems such as Nintendo DS or PlayStation Portable....
  
  
• Mobile operating system
  Mobile operating system
  A mobile operating system, also known as a mobile OS, mobile software platform or a handheld operating system, is the operating system that controls a mobile device or information appliance—similar in principle to an operating system such as Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux distributions that controls a...
  
  
• Multiple phone web based application framework
  Multiple phone web based application framework
  A multiple phone web based application framework is a software framework that is designed to support the development of phone applications that are written as embedded dynamic websites and may leverage native phone capabilities, like geo data or contact lists...
  
  
• Mobile TV
  Mobile TV
  Mobile television usually means television watched on a small handheld device. It may be a pay TV service broadcast on mobile phone networks or received free-to-air via terrestrial television stations from either regular broadcast or a special mobile TV transmission format...
  
  
• Mobile Web
  Mobile Web
  The Mobile Web refers to the use of Internet-connected applications, or browser-based access to the Internet from a mobile device, such as a smartphone or tablet computer, connected to a wireless network....
  
  
• Mobilinux
  Mobilinux
  Mobilinux is a distribution of the Linux operating system, targeted to smartphones. It was announced by MontaVista Software on April 25, 2005.Mobilinux is based on open source and open standard technology, designed for scalability and maximized battery power usage for single-chip mobile phones...
  
  
• Moblin project
  Moblin project
  Moblin, short for 'mobile Linux', was an open source operating system and application stack for Mobile Internet Devices , netbooks, nettops and embedded devices. It has since been merged into the MeeGo project, and bears its name...
  
  
• Moblyng
  Moblyng
  Moblyng, based in Redwood City, California is a developer and publisher of HTML5 social games.-History:Moblyng is a venture-backed startup founded in 2008. The company is based in Redwood City, CA. Moblyng began as a slide show creation service and has since changed its focus toward becoming a...
  
  
• Motoblur
  Motoblur
  Motoblur is an Android UI replacement and push-based service focused on social networking developed by Motorola. It aims at functional similarity to Palm's Synergy, including such features as Remote Wipe...
  
  
• Motorola Backflip
  Motorola Backflip
  The Motorola Backflip is a touchscreen smartphone released to the U.S. for the AT&T Mobility network on March 7, 2010, and for other countries on Telus and Optus networks...
  
  
• Motorola Calgary
  Motorola Calgary
  The Motorola Calgary is an Android-based smartphone by Motorola to be initially distributed by Verizon Wireless in the United States. Features of the phone include Wi-Fi networking, a 3-megapixel low light capable digital camera, a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack, interchangeable battery,...
  
  
• Motorola CLIQ
  Motorola CLIQ
  The Motorola Cliq is an Android-based mobile phone by Motorola.The Cliq/Dext has 3G/HSDPA ; in the US, it is only compatible with T-Mobile's 3G UMTS network. It also has Wi-Fi ability, a 5-megapixel camera and video recording , a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack, an HTML browser, and a QWERTY keyboard...
  
  
• Motorola Devour
  Motorola Devour
  The Motorola Devour is an Internet and multimedia enabled smartphone designed by Motorola, which runs Google's Android operating system. In the United States, the handset is distributed exclusively by Verizon Wireless. The Devour has a Hearing Aid Compatibility rating of M4/T4...
  
  
• Motorola Droid
  Motorola Droid
  The Motorola Droid is an Internet and multimedia enabled smartphone designed by Motorola, which runs Google's Android operating system. The Droid had been publicized under the codenames Sholes and Tao and the model number A855...
  
  
• Motorola Xoom
  Motorola Xoom
  The Motorola Xoom is an Android-based tablet computer by Motorola, introduced at CES 2011 on January 5, 2011. It was the first tablet to be sold with Android 3.0 Honeycomb. The Verizon branded Xoom was the first tablet to run Android 3.1 Honeycomb, however the 3.1 update has not yet been provided...
  
  
• Movenda
  Movenda
  Movenda is a company that provides software products for Device&SIMCard Remote Management. Movenda works for Mobile Operators, Handset&SIMCard manufacturers, Mobile Virtual Network Operator to accelerate the adoption of new technologies and services...
  
  
• Multi-touch
  Multi-touch
  In computing, multi-touch refers to a touch sensing surface's ability to recognize the presence of two or more points of contact with the surface...
  
  

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• OpenBinder (inter-process communication)
  OpenBinder
  OpenBinder is a system for Inter-process communication. It was developed at Be Inc. and then Palm, Inc. and has more recently been used in the Android operating system developed by Google....
  
  
• OpenGL ES
  OpenGL ES
  OpenGL for Embedded Systems is a subset of the OpenGL 3D graphics application programming interface designed for embedded systems such as mobile phones, PDAs, and video game consoles. OpenGL ES is managed by the not-for-profit technology consortium, the Khronos Group, Inc.- Versions :Several...
  
  
• Open Handset Alliance
  Open Handset Alliance
  The Open Handset Alliance is a consortium of 84 firms to develop open standards for mobile devices. Member firms include Google, HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, T-Mobile, Nvidia, and Wind River Systems.-History:The OHA was...
  
  
• Open Kernel Labs
  Open Kernel Labs
  Open Kernel Labs is a privately owned company that develops microkernel-based hypervisors and operating systems for embedded systems. The company was founded in 2006 by Steve Subar and Gernot Heiser as a spinout from NICTA...
  
  
• Open Mobile Alliance
  Open Mobile Alliance
  The Open Mobile Alliance is a standards body which develops open standards for the mobile phone industry.- Principles :Mission: To provide interoperable service enablers working across countries, operators and mobile terminals....
  
  
• Open source license
• Open standard
  Open standard
  An open standard is a standard that is publicly available and has various rights to use associated with it, and may also have various properties of how it was designed . There is no single definition and interpretations vary with usage....
  
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• Openmoko
  Openmoko
  Openmoko is a project to create a family of open source mobile phones, including the hardware specification and the operating system. The project was sponsored by Openmoko Inc....
  
  
• Openmoko Linux
  Openmoko Linux
  Openmoko Linux is an operating system for smartphones developed by the Openmoko project. It is based on the Ångström distribution, comprising various pieces of free software.The main targets of Openmoko Linux were the Openmoko Neo 1973 and the Neo FreeRunner...
  
  

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• PaltalkScene
• PhoneGap
  PhoneGap
  PhoneGap is an open-source mobile development framework developed by Nitobi Software. It enables software programmers to build applications for mobile devices using JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3, instead of often less-known languages such as Objective-C...
  
  
• Ping.fm
  Ping.fm
  Ping.fm is a free social networking and micro-blogging web service that enables users to post to multiple social networks simultaneously.Making an update on Ping.fm pushes the update to a number of different social websites at once...
  
  
• Porn
• Power Architecture
  Power Architecture
  Power Architecture is a broad term to describe similar RISC instruction sets for microprocessors developed and manufactured by such companies as IBM, Freescale, AMCC, Tundra and P.A. Semi...
  
  
• Push e-mail
  Push e-mail
  Push email is used to describe email systems that provide an always-on capability, in which new email is actively transferred as it arrives by the mail delivery agent to the mail user agent , also called the email client...
  
  

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• Samsung I7500
  Samsung I7500
  The Samsung i7500, known as Samsung Galaxy in some countries, is the first mobile phone manufactured by Samsung that uses the open source Android operating system. It was announced on 27 April 2009...
  
  
• Samsung Moment
• Screenshot
• Shazam (service)
  Shazam (service)
  Shazam is a commercial mobile phone based music identification service, with its headquarters in London, England. The company was founded in 1999 by Chris Barton , Philip Inghelbrecht, Dhiraj Mukherjee and Avery Wang ....
  
  
• Sipdroid
  Sipdroid
  Sipdroid is a voice over IP application for the Android operating system using the Session Initiation Protocol.Sipdroid is open source free software released under the GNU General Public License.-Features:...
  
  
• Skia Graphics Engine
  Skia Graphics Engine
  The Skia Graphics Engine is a compact open source graphics library written in C++. It was originally developed by Skia Inc., which was subsequently acquired by Google in 2005 , who then released the software as open source licensed under the Apache License 2.0 free software license.Now known as...
  
  
• Smartphone
  Smartphone
  A smartphone is a high-end mobile phone built on a mobile computing platform, with more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary feature phone. The first smartphones were devices that mainly combined the functions of a personal digital assistant and a mobile phone or camera...
  
  
• Spotify
  Spotify
  Spotify is a Swedish-founded, UK-headquartered DRM-based music streaming service offering streaming of selected music from a range of major and independent record labels, including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group, and Universal. Launched in October 2008 by Swedish startup Spotify AB, the service had...
  
  
• SQLite
  SQLite
  SQLite is an ACID-compliant embedded relational database management system contained in a relatively small C programming library. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain and implements most of the SQL standard...
  
  
• Steel (web browser)
  Steel (web browser)
  Steel is a freeware web browser developed by Michael Kolb under the name kolbysoft. It is a fork of the default browser for Android, taking its WebKit-based layout engine and providing what is intended to be an easier and more "touch friendly" user interface....
  
  
• SyncML
  SyncML
  SyncML is the former name for a platform-independent information synchronization standard. The project is currently referred to as Open Mobile Alliance Data Synchronization and Device Management...