Android: automaton whose appearance evokes the human. But our Android has nothing of the robot which is moving hands and feet in a quest for imitation of human kind. Avinash Meetoo, Director of Knowledge 7 society, summarized us Android, computer platform.
Let's look. Mauritius, in five years: children returning from school, take their lunch while tapping their digital shelves. into the bus, smart phones to any va; all buses are Wi - Fi (or something better)... And finally, the Android platform is moving our small society. This is not a remote possibility. See why.
To Avinash Meetoo draw table: "according to a report of Fortune, Android is in first place of sales: almost 40% of the market against 25% for the iPhone." But it is not a phone, is it not? The layman may already be diverted.
What is Android?
Not a smartphone, or a tablet. Android, this is what there is the smartphone of the Tablet: an operating system (or more, a platform, but we will return) comparable to the iOS of Apple system governing iPhones and iPads and comparable to Windows Mobile, the Nokia Symbian, among others.
"But how is it that all phones are Android?" it would be tempted to ask. Fair question. Samsung, HTC, Sony Ericsson and LG smartphones work all under Android without that the mark is Android. To clear any confusion, it is important to make the distinction between software and hardware. Simply put, say that the hardware - circuits, the screen, the camera - are the brand and the software (software, any of the programming aspect) can be outsourced, hence the fact that several manufacturers will often share the same operating system.
How to explain that Android team 40% of the smartphones sold? "The great advantage of Android is that it is open source, so in free access; "code (Editor's Note: the programming) for Android is available free on the internet", says Avinash Meetoo. The implications are that anyone can access the code, modify it, developing it any. Android is in constant motion.
What are the business benefits? Android is already free. It is less expensive to adapt Android than to create an operating system from scratch. For example, HTC, Sony Ericsson, LG and Samsung take advantage of the open nature of Android to modify the original interface and thus add value to the phone.
The open attribute source is therefore a pillar of the democratization of technology. This is Android that can today be obtained a smartphone to Rs 7 000.
Android: a platform, a universe
"Android, it is more than a system of exploitation…." "We are talking here about platform, the platform", we said Avinash Meetoo. The platform includes the operating system (in the case of Android, a Linux kernel) and application (commonly called apps) programs that may be of word processing, spreadsheets, software downloadable games on market.android. com… The operating system is as the agent which regulates the traffic intersection enforcement programs are as different cars, cyclists, piétons… using the intersection.
In practice, Android includes a virtual office extended on several parties. Each is customizable and it is possible to put shortcuts (to applications, files, folders, contacts, etc.) or widgets (calendar, clock, notes, etc.).
Android also offers the centralization of information where, for example, the bar from the top (of the interface) receives the statutes (used networks, level of battery modes vibrate/ringtone/silencer, alarm, etc.) and notifications. They come from applications, and can notify the arrival of emails, SMS, among others.
Android, the future?
Android is a Google product. "And it sees well the master plan of Google, says Avinash Meetoo, move towards The Application". Indeed, everything is consistent to this. Integrated Google, any project integrating Google +: mail, maps, network aspect And all this in scope of the smartphone, via Android. Android, more than a virtual platform, therefore, a marketing platform, a strategy.
Steve Jobs said he was "disappointed" with the approach of Google to come and walk on beds of Apple. A disappointment around fear? Appointment in a few years. But remember the motto of Bill Gates: "computer, it is always in two years of bankruptcy". Fifteen years ago, Google did not exist and in five years, there is perhaps no Google or Apple - If however Android fills behind the firm Apple for musical applications. By audio latency (time lag between the time where it plays a note and the where it is) which makes the game almost impossible real-time, Android sentence so far to convince those who want to play music on their laptop or their tablet, field in which the iPad and the iPhone remain Kings.
Knowledge 7
Avinash Meetoo will be felt at the right time. "The Android community celebrated its 10 billion download week dernière…. Lot more than serious are développées… "And the creation of apps became an industry," he says. And to add "there is a request to Maurice to get to the page of the mobile app".
Knowledge 7, which has existed for three years, would be the first company in the island to offer courses for the development of mobile applications. Two modules are proposed: HTML5 or Android. Knowledge 7 is located on the fifth floor of the Newry Complex, four-Terminal.
Also Avinash Meetoo launched the site androidmauritius.com two weeks ago. The site is home to a forum, practical advice, among others - a mine of information about the Android to Maurice community.
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The Galaxy Nexus smartphone
This is how present Android 4.0 to the world. An association with Samsung, and Galaxy Nexus out (finally!) on 15 December, in the United States.
It is the first smartphone to run on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Its specifications: a screen 4.65 inches HD Super AMOLED, a dual-core processor 1.2 GHz, 1 Gb of RAM, a 5 MP camera, HDMI output, among others. According to several internet sources, reviews, expert journalists, it would be perhaps the "best ever Smartphone."
Security and control: The advice of the CNIL
Following a Médiamétrie study on the behaviour of users of smartphone on French territory, the National Centre of Information and liberties (CNIL) provides the following tips.
1 Save confidential information in your smartphone.
2. Do not disable the PIN code and change proposed by default. Choose a complicated code.
3. Put in place a phone Autolock period. In addition to the PIN code, it allows to make the phone time inactive. This prevents the consultation of the information contained in the telephone in case of loss or theft.
4 Select if possible encryption of backups of the phone. To do this, use the settings of the platform with which you connect the phone. This manipulation will ensure that nobody will be able to use your data without the password you set.
5. Install anti-virus when this is possible.
6 Note the "IMEI" of the phone number to block in case of loss or theft.
7. Do not unknown sources application download. Choose the official platforms.
8 Verify data contained in your smartphone application that you install will have access.
9 Read conditions of use of a service before installing it. The opinion of other users may also be useful!
10 Adjust the settings in the phone or in applications of geolocation to always control when and by which you want to be géolocalisé. Disable Wi - Fi or GPS when you do not use more than one application of geolocation.
(Source: www.cnil.fr)
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