Gadgetory

hey what is up guys I'm Kay PhD here and Android is one of Google's most successful products in recent years it's been very very popular lately but there are a lot of things that people don't know about it and it hasn't always been a very popular and successful product so without any further ado here are five true facts about Android number five is androids origins a lot of people may think that Android is Google's baby a lot of people truly believe that but now Android is adopted similar to a lot of existing Google products Android was picked up as a start-up earlier so originally in 2003 it was being produced any basically developed by a company called Android Inc in Palo Alto California and the head or founder of that company was Andy Rubin so you can see where that name came from they were working on it and developing it sensed from about 2003 to 2007 and then the original iPhone came out in 2007 and Google decided hey alright we're going to take this and bring it to the next level they bought Android for 50 million dollars they hired Andy and I started developing it into what it is today number four is that Android almost didn't happen like we said it was originally funded for around 50 million dollars when Google first bought it but it almost immediately ran out of that initial funding and it was in 2003 to 2007 so we don't really have a lot of information about that on the web but from what we know it almost immediately ran out and it was basically rock bottom and it started off very hot and then very quickly was a really cold project then was bailed out by an investment of a few thousand dollars by Android or rank one of androids founders originally Steve Pearlman so it originally was really hot then met really really cold and then moved back up to a higher level project as it was bailed out with some financial problem Microsoft Scot Horan who was at the time the head of Windows Mobile's marketing team said to Engadget after Android was released that he didn't understand the impact Android would have so you can see that it started off as a very underrated project it would probably be in an underrated projects video if I did one but it was an underrated project and you can see exactly how far it's come today number three is that more men than women use Android like a lot more now I did there is an exception to there are a couple of exceptions to the rule I reviewed the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 not too long ago the link will be down below the like button on this video but basically for some reason that phone is really popular with the ladies I think it's a purse thing but I don't actually know but for the most part actually 73% of Android users as of the end of 2012 are men leaving 27% as woman now I don't know how accurate that number is today because it's been a few months since then Android is still growing in popularity so more people are using it but there are a lot of interesting facts about androids demographic also for example Android users are on average pretty young mostly between the 18 to 44 year old range and 60% at the end of 2012 were under the age of 34 so Android has a lot of young men in its audience so obviously a lot of the people who watch my videos are also young men so I can kind of understand where that demographic comes from but yeah there is a pretty interesting demographic for Android phone users number two is that Andy the Android mascot was not exactly an original creation all you guys might already know this but the first draft of the robot was actually lifted from a 1990 atari lynx video game console game called gauntlet the third encounter the character's name was Android and it had 24 speed 7 strength and 9 missiles whatever that means for us in today's world we can probably figure that out but in the end you can see it looks very very similar to the original game character the way it looks today down to like the line around where the mouth is separating the head and the antenna everything looks similar but if you're a small game creator back in the 1990's especially when that game wasn't that popular you're not going to sue Google I mean it's Google so they got away with it but that's why the Android logo looks the way it does today and number one Android in space is an actual thing in 2010 a British firm launched a Nexus One into orbit as basically the brains of the satellite where it runs scientific experiments and collects data and it's still there satellite has a name it's called strand one but that's an acronym and it actually stands for survey training research and nano satellite demonstrator according to the firm that is in charge of this whole deal SST the Nexus one that is part of the satellite will be running apps that collect scientific data we'll take pictures of the earth using its 5 megapixel camera stable-yard back then and it will also actually be able to detect when the temperature is getting too low and it will just ramp up the CPU and run some intensive apps to get the battery temperature back up because you have to prevent the battery from freezing so it actually knows when it should be running apps that are really hardcore to keep the battery temperature up and that's actually pretty neat to be honest along with its serious purposes strand is said to have an app on board that will run called scream in space which as you can imagine will emit a noise and basically test the hole in space no one can hear you scream theory and their hope working with that experiment there's a whole bunch of neat stuff it's doing again I'll leave some links below to check out what you want to learn about that but to be honest uh there are no competing iphone satellites yet but supposedly there's some problems with Apple maps either way the fact that that thing is still up there and is doing well is pretty cool and that's basically yeah those are some neat facts about Android in a way that's been it some honorable mentions I guess would go to the fact that these things have names the Android versions have names starting from a all the way to the current letter of the alphabet they've all been desert names so if you've noticed Astro bender cupcake donut Eclair Froyo gingerbread honeycomb Ice Cream Sandwich jelly bean and probably key lime pie and lemon cake and a whole bunch of others as we get all the way through the alphabet I don't know what X is going to be I don't know what Z is gonna be but it'll be fun to see what Android names these things anyway that's a quick video guys just wanted to give you guys some fun facts about Android if you did enjoy this video and you want to see some other videos similar to it I'll have a playlist down below with my other top 5s and if you want to subscribe you'll be able to see all the other videos I put out so there you go thanks for watching and I'll talk to you guys in the night Aysen you