What is the difference between Android and smartphone? We understand in terms!

Ordinary users choose their phone based on what is displayed on the shop window. Often, studying a smartphone is limited to viewing the interface and music player - buyers do not have a great knowledge of the technical characteristics of the purchased product. Let's increase the level of our own literacy and learn more about what Android is different from the smartphone and about the incorrectness of the statement of this issue.

Great diversity

A smartphone is a cross between a mobile phone and a personal computer. Each of these devices is equipped with an operating system (OS). It can be:

• Open webOS;
• Windows Phone;
• Android
• Apple iOS.

The kind of operating system is the determining factor in considering what the Android is different from the smartphone. To understand how wrong the question is, let's look at the types of operating systems. They affect the functions that the smartphone can support.

Open webOS

This operating system is the very first one used on smartphones. Now it occurs less and less.

Windows Phone (WP)

This MOS came out in 2010 under the leadership of Microsoft. The system also works on the basis of the "multitouch" function. Its distinctive property is Hubs. These are sections that combine common themes (games, contacts, the Internet and others). Static icons look like "live" tiles. They reflect information about the status of each section.

Apple iOS

This type of mobile OS can be installed exclusively on Apple's technical products. The screen and the device interface work on the basis of the "multitouch" function (simultaneous work with 1-3 points of contact). Applications can be installed on iOS in IPA format.

Android

Let's return to the question of what the Android is different from the smartphone. Android and iOS systems are the most popular in the whole world. The first version of this OS was launched in 2008. Subsequently, developers only improved the products of Android. Now this system is on many products of digital technology (game consoles, wristwatches, tablets and smartphones). Smartphones based on Android have the following advantages:

• Have open source software;
• Support multitasking and multi-user mode;
• Widely available and relatively cheap compared to Apple products;
• Surprise with a bright and convenient interface;
• Support Wi-Fi, file transfer over the Internet, USB, Bluetooth.

The main drawback of mobile devices running on Android OS is an uneconomic battery.

Android or Open webOS

Having dealt with the question of what differentiates Android from a smartphone, we will find out which OS is better: Android or Open webOS? Of course, give preference to the first option, because the corporation Google is one of the first positions in the world market. Its products meet absolutely all modern requirements for mobile devices. The cheapest smartphone on Android is Alcatel One Touch Pixi 4007D. Its price is only 1990 rubles.

Instead of concluding

It is generally accepted that Apple's products are better and more prestigious. However, recently there has been a trend towards an increase in users of the Android OS.