Google’s Android operating system is an open-source platform that’s currently available on a wide variety of smartphones.
Android has its advantages - it’s highly customizable, for one - but it’s also somewhat geeky software that can seem intimidating to smartphone newbies.
All Android smartphones are touch-screen devices; some - but not all - have hardware keyboards, too. All come with a desktop that is made up of a certain number of screens ( some Android phones have 3, others have 5, while still others have 7) that you can customize to your liking. You can populate screens with shortcuts to apps or widgets that display news headlines, search boxes, or more. The customization is certainly a bonus; no other smartphone platform offers as much flexibility in setting up your desktop screens to your liking.
The Android interface will vary slightly from phone to phone, but, in general, the software itself has become more polished looking over time.