Android is an operating system or an OS, that is owned by Google, a consumer favorite, and used to operate phones.  It’s every other phone service’s answer to Apple’s operating system and the ever popular iPhone.  Google has an agreement with Verizon to enable new Verizon phones to run on this network but Verizon is not the only phone company to use this operating system.  Sprint also uses Android in conjunction with its Now Network and T-moblie as well as AT&T have phones out that are using this system, too.  Kyocera is coming out with a phone on the Adroid operating system next year.

As with many other operating systems, whether on phones or on computers, one of the must-haves for the system is the ability to play games.  Since Android is the answer to the iPhone, the ability to use applications, or apps, is very important. Apps can be anything from something very useful in a person’s every day life – like the ability to turn the phone into a giant alarm clock to something that is played with just for fun – like the Android application Mahjong Solitare, which is in 3-D and is a calming puzzle game that is a classic computer game.  Due to the great difference in types; there is a very large selection of applications.  Listed below are some of the best according to users of the Android operating system. (more…)