Top 10 Most Interesting Android Facts

Android is a Linux-based operating system designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Android was unveiled in 2007 along with the founding of a consortium of hardware, software, and telecommunication companies, also known as Open Handset Alliance, devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices.

The first Android-powered phone was sold in October 2008. Android is open source and Google releases the code under the Apache License. You can get more basic information form Wikipedia or similar platforms but today I am going to show you some interesting facts of Android. Although there would be some other fats but I found the given bellow something very interesting. lets see what are the more interesting facts of Android are:

1.  Google didn’t build Android itself. Android was a separate unit which was bought and financially backed by Google way back in 2005. The separate unit was called Android Inc. and was founded by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner and Chris White in 2003.

2.  60% of Android users are under the age of 34.

3.  Though Samsung has captured much of the Android smartphone sector with its Galaxy series of devices but HTC was the first to take a shot at Android. The first commercially available Android smartphone was called HTC Dream and was released on October 2008. HTC Dream ran on Android 1.5 Cupcake.

4.  33% of Android users have 50 apps on their Android devices.

5.  Do you love the green cute looking Android Logo? Well, google didn’t originally create that. The mascot was adopted from a character named Android! From a game called Gauntlet.

6.  Microsoft earns more from Android than from windows Mobile.

7.  Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said recently that there were over 1.5 million Android devices every day activated.

8.  4.5 billion Applications have been installed from the Android Market.

9.  For 45% of Android users, Android is their first smartphone.

10.  See if you look at the names of all Android versions like Cupcake, Donut Éclair Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean, you will definitely get their pattern. Google names the code names of Android versions in alphabetical order. These names are not random but the names of desserts. 

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