7 interesting facts about Android

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Android does not come up with Google

Although today the Android brand is inextricably linked with Google, at the origin of the operating system were very different people. The company Android Inc. It was founded by a group of talented engineers (Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears, Chris White) in 2003 to develop a new platform for digital cameras. However, later they shifted to create an operating system for mobile phones. Google acquired Android Inc. in July 2005. All employees of the company continued to work in the new company, and its name was used as the title of the new mobile operating system.

Android prototype was created under the influence of BlackBerry devices

The first version of Android It was created under the influence of large firms BlackBerry gadgets that were considered at the time reference device for business people. They did not have a touch screen, but there was a hardware keyboard, call buttons and hanging up, the joystick. All the cards are mixed Apple with its iPhone OS, on 9 January 2007. It was a revolutionary interface that has made a bombshell. Android makers had to postpone the presentation of its operating system, and quickly alter it in accordance with the new trends.

The first device based on Android has made HTC

The first ever mobile phone running Android was released by HTC and HTC Dream has a name (in the United States - T-Mobile G1). Official presentation of the device was held in October 2008, the price was $ 179 with the purchase of two-year contract from T-Mobile. Interestingly, the device has a full-size hardware keyboard, but there was no standard headphone jack.

Android 1.0 and 1.1 did not have a "sweet" names

Everyone knows that each version of Android has its own name, which is selected in alphabetical order and complies with some sweets. However, there are two versions, which have not been assigned names delicacies. Android 1.0 called Alpha or Astro Boy. Android 1.1 although it was a culinary symbol, but it is used only informally, within the company. And only since version Android 1.5 Cupcake was launched familiar to us today, the order naming each version of Android.

Android 3 did not work on smartphones

The Android version of the story is one that has not been designed for smartphones. One of the culprits of its creation was the Apple company with its iPad. After its presentation in January 2010, the whole world has gone mad for tablets. Google had something to answer, and that answer was the Android 3.0 Honeycomb - an operating system that is specially designed for installation on the tablet. It also can be called the most unsuccessful version of Android: it never gained special popularity among users and was quickly replaced by a universal Ice Cream Sandwich.

The first smartwatch for Android released by Sony in 2010

Today we are witnessing a real boom in portable gadgets such as wearable. Although the first version of the special operating system called the Google Android Wear company introduced relatively recently - in 2014, attempts to create a wearable running Android began much earlier. More in 2010, the company released the Sony Ericsson LiveView watch. They are connected to smart phones and were able to display information from Twitter, RSS-news, SMS, as well as control the playback of media.

Microsoft earns on Android more than Google

It's all about patents. Virtually all devices that use Android, used technology patented at different times by Microsoft. For this she relied payments, the size of which, according to analystsIt surpasses even the income from their own Windows Phone operating system. And, of course, it brings Microsoft more money than Google the company, which, as you know, receives no income from the distribution of its operating system.