The Android Technology has become the talk of the day as a unique invention. Android is a Linux-guided operating system uniquely developed for touch screen mobile devices like tablet computers and smartphones. The operating system was initially developed by the Android Incorporation, which was supported financially by Google. The Google Corporation purchased the Company later in 2005. The company has developed several android applications, but the most recent one is the Android 4.0, which is also known as the Ice Cream Sandwich (Komatineni & MacLean, 2012). This is an application which has become a sweeping force to the mobile devices technology. It has come along with unique definition of applications and use of these devices.
Being the latest version for Android, Ice Cream Sandwich has combined several features from earlier versions to ensure a unique development. This new model of Android allows customized home screens, easy multitasking, rich notifications, and deep interactivity, resizable widgets and adds strong new communicating and sharing ways. The invention gives a device refined animations, countered with ample feedback in a system that makes interactions enthralling as well as engaging (Google, 2012).
Although, this application was developed for mobile devices especially Smartphones and tablet computers, it has a wider application. Other electronics like laptops and LED TVs may also apply this form of technology in adding on the uniqueness of their products. With minimal navigation, this application may fit for other phones, which are not necessarily Smartphones (Google, 2012). This means that Android 4.0 was developed to bring in revolution in the electronic industry. With the adoption of this technology by several mobile phone companies like Samsung and ZTE, the application is foreseen to be a force to beat in the development of electronic devices (Komatineni & MacLean, 2012).
However, adoption for this device by most electronic manufacturing companies has become almost impossible. Every company is looking forward to gaining full rights for the application. However, this has not been possible. Instead, it has brought massive competition among these companies, leading to exit of small companies from the competition.
Other companies like laptop manufacturing companies fear the adoption of the application as it may limit their market. Since Android was adopted by Google, all devices that are to support the Android 4.0 application must be using Google as the browser. To some people, Google is not the most preferred search engine (DNA, 2012). This means that if such customers purchased a device with an already installed Android 4.0 application, they would not enjoy the freedom of browsing.
Despite being uniquely developed, the Android 4.0 application has been linked to some problems that have been noted in the devices that have adopted the technology. Galaxy Nexus owners were the first ones to report a problem on the use of the application. In case of any update on the application, the phone loses signal when it gets into sleep mode. This usually occurs when there is no running application in the background as the phone gets into sleep mode. This drops the speed of the processor below the limit leading to loss of signal by the phone (Google, 2012).
However, the problem can be eliminated by running a heavy resource in the background. This will reduce the speed on which the phones gets to sleep mode as well as keep the speed of the processor intact to reduce the slowdown of the activities meant for the phone. The problem may also be solved by regulating the CPU clock speed to the double of the initial speed. For example, from 350MHZ to 700 MHZ may be extraordinarily significant. The third solution may be to entirely disable the sleep mode in the phone (DNA, 2012)
Therefore, Android 4.0 is a form of technology that has had a massive impact to the mobile devices industry. It has made it easy to use them following the uniqueness of the application. The application has an extremely wide market if only it controlled the adverse challenges to its adoption and make up on the impending problems of the application to devices.
References
DNA. (2012, December 23). Advantages | New Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich | www.blog2life.com. Bringing blog into your life. Retrieved January 25, 2013, from http://blog2life.com/new-android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich/
Google. (2012, September 18). Android - Introducing Ice Cream Sandwich. Android. Retrieved January 25, 2013, from http://www.android.com/about/ice-cream-sandwich/
Komatineni, S., & MacLean, D. (2012). Pro Android 4. New York: Apress.
