As I prepare for my eTech 2011 presentation, An iPad, Kindle, and iPod
Touch walked into a classroom…, I decided that it would be
beneficial to plan on questions about Android, Android Tablets, and how
they may work in schools. The Consumer Electronics Show was held this
past week, and during it a bevy of manufacturers announced tablets, with
almost all of them running Android.
Android is an open source operating system created at Google based on
Linux. Google allows distributes this OS free of charge to be used by
manufacturers and cellular providers on mobile devices. It competes
against other mobile operating systems such as Apple’s iOS (used on the
iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch), Microsoft Windows Phone 7, RIM Blackberry
OS, and HP’s WebOS.
I purchased a Motorola Droid off of eBay and received it this past week.
I’ve been playing around with it for the last couple of days, so this
isn’t so much as a review as it is my first impressions.