8 UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUT ANDROID

Well today we gonna learn 8 Unknown Facts About Android OS. Yes you heard right “Unknown and Unusual Facts about Android”. One of the most popular, gazing, and stunning (I cannot say elegant) Smart-Phones Operating System. I really don’t need to define it. You’ll really wonder about facts

1. Android wasn’t Google’s Idea

Android was the brainchild and huge project of Andy Rubin, who founded Android Inc. in October 2003 with the aim of creating a new mobile platform/OS. Google later bought Android Inc. and hired Rubin and others in August 2005. There’s nothing unusual about it, but up till now I always thought Google created and founded Android.

2. Android almost didn’t work out

Isn’t this shocking ? – Android almost immediately ran out of cash after its founding, only to be saved according to the Businessweek, by Steve Perlman. The beginning was very hard for Android in market and by looking at this situation Google immediately acquired Android.

3. Microsoft thought it would be a non-event

Microsoft’s Scott Horn, then head of the Windows Mobile marketing team, had told Engadget after Android’s release, “I don’t understand the impact they are going to have.”

4. The Nexus was a hot rumour years before the Nexus released

People had started predicting about the “gPhone” (Google Phone) as early as 2007 though, Nexus came out in 2010. In reality Nexus was founded from myths and rumors.

5. The first official version code name was NOT a Dessert

Google’s Dan Morrill confirmed in January that the very first alpha version of Android released to internal developers was R2-D2.

6. Every app you run on your Android phone gets its own virtual machine

Well, you might don’t believe but it’s true that each active app on an Android device runs in its own Dalvik Virtual Machine (VM) which keeps it safe and separate from core functions. This improves battery life and boosts performance of the phone. But still people keeps complaining about “Android Consumes Much Battery!” Imagine if they’d not created Dalvik VM – then you might had to charge after every hour. That’s very unusual and unknown fact of Android that it still manages to save a lot of battery power.

7. There’s an Android phone in Space

A British firm launched a Nexus phone on Space, to control a satellite as part of an experiment and see how well consumer-grade electronics stand up to the rigors of space.

8. Resolution scaling was introduced in Version 1.6

The ability to automatically scale images based on display size appeared in Donut, or Android 1.6, paving the way for the huge range of device form factors on the Android market today.