Just in case you’ve been wondering what on earth this site is actually devoted to… here’s a brief explanation.

In essence, Google’s Android is a mobile device operating system. The same way Windows, Mac OS, or a Linux distribution is what you see when your computer boots up, Android is what you see when your mobile phone (and eventually other devices) boots up.

Well, great, but seriously… who cares? It’s just a phone, yes? That used to be true, and then the BlackBerry shook things up a bit by stirring email into the mobile phone mix. The real game changer was the iPhone. The iPhone added a certain elegant, tactile chic to using your phone, and gave people access to thousands of user and company written applications, providing endless uses for the one device. Essentially, they turned it into a tiny little computer that fits in your pocket.

So, why not spend all my time writing about the iPhone, if they’re the great and wonderful innovator here? What makes Android a subject that is more worthy of attention? One important factor puts Android ahead of the iPhone OS – it’s open source. Any one can download the code, look at it, change it, do whatever they like with it entirely free of charge.
This means that handset manufacturer’s don’t need to provide a snappy well supported OS any more, and they don’t have to spend nearly as much money coming up with one (if they don’t want to). It also promotes the development and advancement of the Android OS as a whole, with people being able to produce their own branch versions, taking the great features from one… and rolling them into another.

To sum it all up, Android is an advanced mobile OS that tells your phone what to do, how to look, how to act, and does all this very well.
On top of that, it’s free, open to change and inspection, and constantly developing.

Android is one of the brighter things in the future of mobile technology.
If you’re after even more information, here is Google’s Android promotional page.
And here is the relevant Wikipedia article.