The innovations that android brought to the world!!

It is often suggested that android is just a copy OS, little do people realise the things that android did first things that have eventually became the standard for competitors as well.

1. The revolutionary notification center of android was a part of it from day one, nobody had done notifications like that before and eventually the competitors had to give in and adopt a similar style.

2. Over the air updates - now a standard throughout all platforms in the world this was something introduced by google from day one.

3. High resolution screen - many people falsely believe the iphone 4 was the game changer for smartphone resolution. It was not!! The motorola droid was the first phone which took a quantum leap over the screen resolution and general quality of previous phones and forced apple to get out of their comfort zone of the same screen for 3 years!!

4. Free turn by turn navigation, once again something that we now see is being copied by competitors.

5. Social network integration - once again now a standard for all platforms!!

There are lots more things but I have specifically listed things that got copied and things which influenced competitors to come back harder. I believe the list is going to get bigger in future, NFC was also introduced by google and could become the standard in the future for all platforms. Anybody who thinks android didnt innovate needs to think things more reasonably.

Screen resolution. You are wrong the first was HTC when they released the HD on WinMo 6.5, they first released sense overlay on that platform too!!!

screen resolution. you are wrong the forst was HTC when they released the HD on WinMo 6.5, they first released sense overlay on that platform too!!!mystic_knight

The HD2 is perhaps revolutionary for the screen size craze but not in terms of screen quality.

The Xperia X1 was announced Feb 08 and was shipped/released Sept/Oct 08, it had a 3 inch 800x480 display with a 311ppi.

The Xperia X1 was announced Feb 08 and was shipped/released Sept/Oct 08, it had a 3 inch 800x480 display with a 311ppi.

NVIDIATI

The Touch HD was announced Sept. 08 and released Nov. 08, it also had a 3.8 inch display (246ppi).

sidekick introduced OTA updates.

That said, Andy Rubin made android after making the Sidekicks, so its still part of android's DNA

Oh ya the SE Xperia X1 I didnt know about that. I suppose that would be the first "retina" screen, man even I was of the impression that apple made the first 300+PPI screen. :lol:

Anyways the moto droid still remains pretty big though. The X1 had a resistive screen with poor sunlight performance, the moto droid screen is superior overall. You could say the droid is the first phone with a "complete" screen having no major weakness.

It is often suggested that android is just a copy OS, little do people realise the things that android did first things that have eventually became the standard for competitors as well.

1. The revolutionary notification center of android was a part of it from day one, nobody had done notifications like that before and eventually the competitors had to give in and adopt a similar style.

2. Over the air updates - now a standard throughout all platforms in the world this was something introduced by google from day one.

3. High resolution screen - many people falsely believe the iphone 4 was the game changer for smartphone resolution. It was not!! The motorola droid was the first phone which took a quantum leap over the screen resolution and general quality of previous phones and forced apple to get out of their comfort zone of the same screen for 3 years!!

4. Free turn by turn navigation, once again something that we now see is being copied by competitors.

5. Social network integration - once again now a standard for all platforms!!

There are lots more things but I have specifically listed things that got copied and things which influenced competitors to come back harder. I believe the list is going to get bigger in future, NFC was also introduced by google and could become the standard in the future for all platforms. Anybody who thinks android didnt innovate needs to think things more reasonably.

Gambler_3

It is often suggested that android is just a copy OS, little do people realise the things that android did first things that have eventually became the standard for competitors as well.

1. The revolutionary notification center of android was a part of it from day one, nobody had done notifications like that before and eventually the competitors had to give in and adopt a similar style.

2. Over the air updates - now a standard throughout all platforms in the world this was something introduced by google from day one.

3. High resolution screen - many people falsely believe the iphone 4 was the game changer for smartphone resolution. It was not!! The motorola droid was the first phone which took a quantum leap over the screen resolution and general quality of previous phones and forced apple to get out of their comfort zone of the same screen for 3 years!!

4. Free turn by turn navigation, once again something that we now see is being copied by competitors.

5. Social network integration - once again now a standard for all platforms!!

There are lots more things but I have specifically listed things that got copied and things which influenced competitors to come back harder. I believe the list is going to get bigger in future, NFC was also introduced by google and could become the standard in the future for all platforms. Anybody who thinks android didnt innovate needs to think things more reasonably.

Gambler_3

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It is often suggested that android is just a copy OS, little do people realise the things that android did first things that have eventually became the standard for competitors as well.

1. The revolutionary notification center of android was a part of it from day one, nobody had done notifications like that before and eventually the competitors had to give in and adopt a similar style.

2. Over the air updates - now a standard throughout all platforms in the world this was something introduced by google from day one.

3. High resolution screen - many people falsely believe the iphone 4 was the game changer for smartphone resolution. It was not!! The motorola droid was the first phone which took a quantum leap over the screen resolution and general quality of previous phones and forced apple to get out of their comfort zone of the same screen for 3 years!!

4. Free turn by turn navigation, once again something that we now see is being copied by competitors.

5. Social network integration - once again now a standard for all platforms!!

There are lots more things but I have specifically listed things that got copied and things which influenced competitors to come back harder. I believe the list is going to get bigger in future, NFC was also introduced by google and could become the standard in the future for all platforms. Anybody who thinks android didnt innovate needs to think things more reasonably.

Kid-Atari

1) Growl Notifications on OSX, 2006. 2) My Sidekick and Blackberry had OTA updates 3) HTC was the first to implement higher resolution. Even then, the HD and Moto Droid are not as high resolution as Retina display. Retina Display is an innovation in screen resolution. One that has everyone scrambling to match or outdo. 4) Hardly has to do with innovation more than it has to do with Google intentionally nerfing the same app on iOS due to conflict of interest. Hardly matters. 5) facepalm material. Remember how long it took for Android to even have a working FB app? More less FB Chat. What Microsoft is doing is more innovative than what Android has ever offered. Android started off as a blackberry and Palm OS rip, only to quickly imitate iOS literally right after its announcement.Kid-Atari

2. The sidekick was produced byAndy Rubin so nevertheless the google camp did it first.

3. Actually it was sony which had the first retina screen as already pointed out. In any case 265 PPI is bloody good however you cut it.

4. Google developed it doesnt it? And android was the first platform that got it? Ya google sure deserve credit it seems.

5. No I dont remember I havent been using android for that long. Doesnt matter we are talking about right now.

Good thing android imitated the clickable icons thing from iOS, look where those awful tiles have got microsoft.

I don't recall if it was Google that was responsible for that integration or if it was FB.

musicalmac

I disabled google+ from my google phone without even requiring root access, thats freedom for ya.