Since its inception, the Android OS has been generating a lot of buzz. The open standard OS has seen exponential growth as developers have picked it up as a great platform for app distribution, with the freedom of expression that many of them find missing due to the limits that Apple has imposed on apps for its iOS.

The developers behind the Android OS simply understand the significance of what Microsoft achieved for its Windows line of operating systems. That is that in consumer heavy markets or markets that are focused on the average user, the more apps and the more features that you can offer, the more that users will tend to gravitate toward your product. The open standard of the Android OS has thus become its biggest advantage in the mobile computing world. Because developers feel that they can be more creative with their applications for the Android OS, more of them prefer to develop apps for the platform, and so provide the OS with a superb choice of third party software for any (and maybe every) user. In retrospect, it seems like Google was aware about this from the very start, and capitalized on the chance to acquire Android and improve on it with its already large following of open source developers.

Now, what does this have to do with Chinese smartphone manufacturers?

Well, we have all witnessed the growth of the smartphone market in Asia. Asia-Pacific is the leading region in smartphone usage and the biggest providers of smartphones in Asia are based in China. Aside from that, HTC has recently acquired the number two spot in overall smartphone shipments the world over. Other manufacturers like ZTE, Huawei, Qigi, HKC (a clone of HTC), and other Chinese brands have also seen a rise in popularity in international markets.

These manufacturers all have made efforts to release smartphones built around the Android platform. Most notably HTC, 80% of whose current line of smartphones utilizes Android running with their increasingly popular HTC Sense launcher. This shift toward the Android platform in Asia is true for just about every smartphone manufacturer in the region. Because the Android OS is open standard, implementation of the Android OS is simply easier than trying to implement a custom OS that would function as an iOS clone for iPod/iPhone/iPad clone devices.

These facts along with potential for more and more consumers to swing toward the Android OS because of its application-rich environment puts Chinese smartphone manufacturers in a position to take world smartphone markets by storm. Apple seems intent on imposing limits on the types of apps it releases, and unless Apple changes this attitude, Android devices seem like the more practical choice for pushing the potentials of smartphone mobile computing further into the future.

Chinese smartphone manufacturers already have several years of Android smartphone development experience to bring to the smartphone battlefield, and already many of the smartphones coming out of China seem to suggest this position. Several of them are already starting to experiment on unique hardware platforms to complement their Android software orientation. Many of them are already implementing the kind of technologies that bigger brand name manufacturers have introduced. All these advances came just a few years after the release of the very first iPhone.

For a better picture of the potentials for Chinese Android smartphones, visit any Chinese electronics wholesaler and take your pick.