Todays mobile phones, also known as smartphones, has a variety of features like colorful

graphical interface, long battery life, touchscreen, bluetooth, cellular data, Wi-fi, and many

more specifications that differs from old phones. Smartphones have an operating system in

order to run those features. The top platforms or operating systems that most smartphones used

are Android OS and iOS.

Android OS is developed by Google. It is used by most smartphone manufacturers as

their platform for their products. Samsung is one of the top manufacturer that used this

operating system. The following are the versions that android releases:

Code Name Version No. Initial release date API Level Support Status
None 1.0 September 23, 2008 1 Unsupported
None 1.1 February 9, 2009 2 Unsupported
Cupcake 1.5 April 27, 2009 3 Unsupported
Donut 1.6 September 15, 2009 4 Unsupported
Eclair 2.0 2.1 October 26, 2009 5-7 Unsupported
Froyo 2.2 2.2.3 May 20, 2010 8 Unsupported
Gingerbread 2.3 2.3.7 December 6, 2010 9 - 10 Unsupported
Honeycomb 3.0 3.2.6 February 22, 2011 11 - 13 Unsupported
Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 4.0.4 October 18, 2011 14 - 15 Unsupported
Jelly Bean 4.1 4.3.1 July 9, 2012 16 - 18 Unsupported
KitKat 4.4 4.4.4 October 31, 2013 19 Unsupported
Lollipop 5.0 5.1.1 November 12, 2014 21 - 22 Unsupported
Marshmallow 6.0 6.0.1 October 5, 2015 23 Supported
Nougat 7.0 7.1.1 August 22, 2016 24 - 25 Supported
A version of Android KitKat exclusive to Android Wear Devices was released on June

25, 2014, with an API level of 20.

IOS is a platform developed by Apple exclusively for Apple mobile devices. It is popular

because of its unusual and advanced features than any other mobile operating systems. The

following are the version that iOS released:

Version Codename Release Date

 1.0 Alpine June 29, 2007
1.0.0 1.0.2 Heavenly July 31, 2007 - August 21, 2007
1.1 Little Bear September 14 2007
1.1.1 Snowbird September 27, 2007
1.1.2 Oktoberfest November 12, 2007
2.0 Big Bear July 11, 2008
2.1 Sugarbowl September 9, 2008
2.2 Timberline November 21, 2008
3.0 Kirkwood June 17, 2009
3.1 Northstar September 9, 2009
3.2 Wildcat (iPad only) April 3, 2010
4.0 Apex June 21, 2010
4.1 Baker September 8, 2010
4.2 Jasper November 22, 2010
4.2.5 Phoenix February 7, 2011 July 25, 2010

4.2.10
4.3 Durango March 9, 2011
5.0 Telluride October 12, 2011
5.1 Hoodoo March 7, 2012
6.0 Sundance September 19, 2012
6.1 Brighton January 28, 2013
7.0 Innsbruck September 18, 2013
7.1 Sochi March 10, 2014
8.0 Okemo September 17, 2014
8.1 OkemoTaos October 20, 2014
8.2 OkemoZurs March 9, 2015
8.3 Stowe April 8, 2015
8.4 Copper June 30, 2015
9.0 Monarch September 16, 2015
9.1 Boulder October 21, 2015
9.2 Castlerock December 8, 2015
9.3 Eagle March 21, 2016
10.0 Whitetail September 16, 2016
10.1 Butler October 24, 2016
10.2 Corry December 12, 2016
10.3 (Beta) Erie February 2017
Apple always update their product. There are many iOS update for every version release

to fix some bugs and errors.