|"A manager's guide to the business and organisational
applications of open source technologies"| This mobile operating
system was first created by Android Inc. Following the company's
purchase by Google Inc in 2005, development has moved to the
Open Handset Alliance and Google. The first release of Android
as open source (Android Open Source Project) was announced in a
press release by the Open Handset Alliance on 21 October 2008
with the first handset - the HTC Dream - being released on 22
October 2008. A major release of the Android operating system
happened on 5 January 2010 when Google and the HTC Corporation
began shipping the Nexus One mobile internet handset. Google has
reported that 60,000 Android handsets were being shipped per day
in February 2010. Android supports standard smartphone hardware,
but can also manage larger VGA displays and other specialist
hardware such as video and stills cameras, touchscreens, GPS,
accelerometers and 2D/3D graphics. Communications protocols
supported include GSM, U