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Android's best features ever (CNET Top 5)

2018-09-24
these are the best features of Android ever can you believe Android is now 10 years old well you should because it's true over the years Android phones have overtaken every other competitor to become the number one mobile operating system by market share worldwide let's look back and see what has been so great about Android in the past 10 years number 5 is quick settings swipe from the top of the screen and Android gave you the option of toggling important settings like Wi-Fi or mobile data long pressing the setting brings you even more choices could you imagine having to call up the Settings app every time you wanted to mess with Wi-Fi or airplane mode that was a reality on certain non Android phones for a very long time coming in at number four is battery saver it's really easy to wind up using your phone for everything then you realize you need your phone alive for something really really important and you have no charging Android added a battery saver mode to the operating system way back in the lollipop days and it's incredibly useful thankfully batteries have gotten bigger over the 10 years Android has been around with battery saver you can get a lot of usage from your phone number three is variety because Android is free and open source anyone can build their own version of Android if they see fit Amazon fire tablets run a customized version of Android there are also a ton of different sized and priced Android phones without Android would be stuck when it comes to options number two is notification management from the get-go Android notifications have been well managed I remember seeing the notification trade being pulled down at the t-mobile g1 event years ago I thought it was a great idea on top of that notifications have improved over the years by adding functionality you can reply from notifications without launching another app swipe down on an email notification to get more information you can even change settings for notifications within the notification before we get to number one let's talk about the worst things about Android over the years homogenous Asian of handsets in the early days of Android we saw some weird crazy things remember when Android phones featured Hardware keyboards two screens these days so many phones have moved to the notches lab form factor apart from BlackBerry tablets Android tablets are not officially dead but this should be Android tablet apps are generally awful then again with Android phones getting larger in a short amount of time a large screen Android phone pretty much eliminates the need for a tablet and the most frustrating part about Android is updates what the latest version of Android when it comes out you've got some very limited options arguably Samsung makes the best Android phones due to a number of reasons updates take a long time to reach Samsung phones that also means that developers may not be able to take full advantage of Android features for a while back to the bright side and the number one best thing about Android ever is customization for the most part you can make your Android phone behave however you want I think Risto C on Twitter said it best quote want a different keyboard sure change the launcher you've got it different assistant at like Cortana or Amazon done like a honey badger Android don't care well stated wrists OC also don't forget Android lets you have widgets pretty much anywhere you want your Android phone is yours to mess with and that is great they leave anything out let me know am i as apt I'll see you online
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