There has been a lot of excitement in the world of mobile phones, for the past couple of years. Ever since Apple revolutionized the industry with the iPhone, people have decided that they wanted to move up and have a smart phone as part of their electronic arsenal. Google decided to answer the call, and released the Android operating system.

The Android operating system was built so that several different phone manufacturers could have an already functional operating system on their manufactured smart phones. This OS would have the modern features that are expected in an operating system these days. So now each manufacturer would only have to worry about the hardware, and Google would worry about the rest. Now that the OS is on the 2.0 version, we are seeing a lot of features that have really made the Android phone one to have. We will go over a couple of features that really make the Andorid phone special.    

The first feature that we will go over is the GPS set up of the phone. Sure, most phones have a GPS feature, but Google's integrates very well with the already popular Google Maps. Since they own the mapping software, they are able to do things with it that other vendors could not. It may be a similar feature to all of the other phones out there, but the Android does the feature a lot better than everyone else. If you want to make sure that you can find your way around somewhere you want to visit, then an android phone is one of the best phones that you could have to accomplish this with.    



Another feature that the Android has that everyone loves, is the tethering set up of the phones available if you use a third party app. The iPhone does not let you tether the phone unless you jailbreak it. The Android allows you to take advantage of this feature with the availability of a third party application. If you do not know what tethering is, we will give you a quick explanation. It is when you hook up an external device such as a laptop to your phone so that the external device can access the internet. This is great when you are mobile and you can not get to any LAN points. The iPhone creators have been saying that the feature was coming soon but they never delivered. Google has.    

The last feature that we will talk about on the Android phone is the use of multiple applications at the same time. When you are on the iPhone, you can only use one application at a time. With an Android based phone, you can use several applications at the same time. Just like a normal computer. This is great when you are in the middle of using an application, and you want to take a peek at another one, you do not have to turn the first one off.    

As you see, the Android is filled with features that you will grow to love.