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unusual facts about Android


MoSync

Support for iOS, Android and Moblin was announced on 19th Feb 2010 during Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona.


ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs

BMPM also comes as a feature in two mobile apps - ABS-CBNnews.com's and COMELEC's - which are present in iOS, Android, and Windows.

Artix Entertainment

(often abbreviated to AE) is an independent video game developer and publisher that creates browser-based role-playing games using the Flash and Unity engines, and has recently begun developing games for mobile platforms including iOS and Android.

Awesome Android

A synthesis of ape DNA and unstable molecules incorporated into an almost indestructible body with a microcomputer and a solar-power source, the newly christened Awesome Android is directed against the Fantastic Four, although the superhero team defeats both the Android and the Thinker.

Acquiring sentience, the Android rebels against the Thinker and seeks legal aid from law firm Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway (the firm that employs Jennifer Walters, the alter ego of heroine She-Hulk).

The Android reappeared as part of a supervillain team in The Avengers #286-289 (Feb.-May 1988); featured in the Acts of Vengeance storyline in Avengers Spotlight #27 (Mid-Dec. 1989); battled several Marvel heroes in Thunderbolts #2 (June 1997) and Heroes for Hire #1 (July 1997) and had two further encounters with the Fantastic Four in Fantastic Four vol.

The Android reappears during the "Acts of Vengeance" storyline, being repaired by the robot Machinesmith and used to distract the Avengers while several villains escape confinement in the prison facility the Vault.

Bi-Beast

The Bi-Beast is an android with two heads (one atop the other - the top skull is given knowledge of warfare while the bottom skull was given a knowledge of culture) created many years ago by an avian race that were in turn a sub-species of the Inhumans.

Bloomberg Terminal

There are also applications that allow mobile access via Android, BlackBerry, and iOS.

Connect2Media

Publishing platforms include Java, Android, BREW, portable games consoles, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, iPhone, PC, interactive TV and other emerging digital platforms.

Cracker Jack

In 2013, the prizes became codes for people to redeem "nostalgic" games on the Cracker Jack app through Google Play for Android-powered devices.

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

The game was originally released in Japan for the PlayStation Portable on November 25, 2010 and was later ported to iOS and Android devices on August 20, 2012.

Daryl Cagle

Cagle publishes iPhone, Android and iPad apps, including one with cartoons about Tiger Woods which made news when it was rejected by Apple Inc., because of Apple's policy of not allowing apps that ridicule public figures.

Datalore

The new android was intended to have been created as something that could be deployed into dangerous or hazardous situations, described in the premise as something along the lines of a female android version of Red Adair, the fire fighter.

Dreams of Sumatra

The IMDB entry for Valeria Vasilevski credits her as the voice of one of the Android Sisters in a 1985 animated film by Bill Plympton called Boomtown.

Fabasoft Folio

The mobile usage on smartphones (e.g. Android, iPhone) and media tablets (e.g. iPad) is supported by open standards such as HTTPS, WebDAV, CalDAV and CMIS as well as apps for the Android and iOS operating systems.

Far-Play

In order to participate in the locative aspects of fAR-Play games, users must have an Android or iOS mobile device and access to wireless internet.

Flow My Tears

In 2006, the British electronic music group Banco de Gaia produced a vocoded version called "Flow my Dreams, the Android Wept".

Fluid Football

Fluid Football is a mobile association football game developed by independent studio Chromativity and published by AppyNation for iOS, Android, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, and BlackBerry devices.

Goom Radio

A Goom Radio application can be downloaded for free on the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, BlackBerry, Nokia, and Android.

Hourman

Another Hourman, an android from the 853rd century that was modeled on Rex Tyler's DNA, served with both the Justice League and the Justice Society for a time.

IguanaBee

and mobile games for various platforms, one being the game Whacky Escape! for tablets and smartphones in iOS, Android and BlackBerry.

Legionnaires 3

In his citadel at the End of Time, the Time Trapper plays a game of chess with Brainiac, the intergalactic android criminal from the 20th century.

LMD

Life Model Decoy, a fictional android in Marvel Comics that acts as a replica of a person

Lock screen

Android distributions by other manufacturers typically use different lock screen designs than what stock Android utilizes; newer versions of HTC's Sense used a metallic ring dragged from the bottom of the screen to unlock the phone, and also allows users to launch apps by dragging their respective shortcut icon into the ring instead.

LSU Tiger Trails

The necessary information can also be found on their TransLōc app, which is available for BlackBerry, iPhone, and Android users.

Mega Man 9

Dr. Light, the creator of the world's greatest android hero Mega Man, is blamed for sudden incidents of destructive, robotic rampage.

Microbridge

Microbridge is a software stack that allows for communication between an Android mobile phone and an Arduino micro controller using the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) interface.

MIUI

Since MIUI V4, based on Android 4.0, Xiaomi added a virus scanning engine from partner company Tencent (formerly from Kingsoft, whose previous CEO was also Lei Jun) despite the opposition of many users.

My Living Doll

The series starred Bob Cummings as Dr. Bob McDonald, a psychiatrist who is given care of Rhoda Miller, a lifelike android (played by Julie Newmar) in the form of a sexy, Amazonian female, by her creator, a scientist who did not want her to fall into the hands of the military.

NBC Sunday Showcase

For the October 18 telecast of Murder and the Android, Alfred Bester scripted a teleplay adaptation of his cyber-crime story "Fondly Fahrenheit," first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (August 1954).

Œ

On mobile devices running iOS, Android or Windows Mobile, œ and Œ are accessed by holding down O until a small menu is displayed.

PSTech

The company's main areas of expertise are development of object-oriented software, database design and software for mobile phones (Android, iPad).

Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit

For every android they create, they test its reaction to the gynoids stripping; the first android has a meltdown; the second flirts with a male doctor (a cameo of Fedde le Grand) instead of looking at the girls; the third time it works, but he discovers that he is a robot instead of human so he escapes, causing a system shutdown protocol to be activated, shutting down everything including him and the gynoids.

Relevance Language

Amongst other features the most prominent one is that it looks if a particular computer (whether its a Desktop, Laptop, Mobile running iOS or Android, Mac, Linux, etc.

Shelly Fujii

In September 2009, it was announced that she had been chosen to play the android Yuria Type 100 in the V-Cinema Yuria 100%, a live-action adaptation of the popular manga series Yuria 100 Shiki.

Sholes

Motorola Droid, an Android-based smartphone by Motorola, previously publicized under the codenames Sholes and Tao and the model number A855.

Shoutr

All that is needed are two or more Android devices equipped with Wi-Fi technology.

Six Guns

Six Guns, also known as Six-Guns, is an open world action game developed for iOS, BlackBerry 10, Android, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 by Gameloft.

Tethering

Windows Mobile 6.5, Windows Phone 7, Android (starting from version 2.2), and iOS 3.0 (or later) offer tethering over a Bluetooth PAN or a USB connection.

The Bladerunner

No film was produced from it, but Hampton Fancher, a screenwriter for the 1982 film (based on Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), had a copy, and he suggested "Blade Runner" as preferable to the earlier working titles "Android" and "Dangerous Days".

The Simulacra

Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, The Simulacra is the story of several protagonists within the United States of Europe and America (USEA), formed by the merger of (West) Germany and the United States, where the whole government is a fraud and the President (der Alte, "the Old Man") is a simulacrum (android).

The Ultimates 3

Pym and Wasp discover the truth about the Ultron robot, which has adopted the identity of Yellowjacket, and uses the Ultimates' DNA to create a series of android duplicates.

ThinkPad Tablet

Lenovo has explained that this happens because the tablet contains DRM protected software and Lenovo proprietary code on the Android image.

Vevo

Vevo is also available for a range of platforms including Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Fire OS, Google TV, Apple TV, Boxee, Roku and Xbox 360.

Voiceserve

The smart phone dialer softphones have versions compatible with iPhone and iPad, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows.

Wikipedia App

The Wikimedia Foundation publishes official Wikipedia Apps for using Wikipedia on multiple mobile device operating systems, currently: Android (via Google Play), BlackBerry (via BlackBerry World), iOS (via App Store), Firefox OS (via Firefox Marketplace),and Windows 8 (via Windows Store).

WRMW

Audiostreaming from its website is also available for listeners outside its immediate signal area in addition to iPhone, BlackBerry and Android mobile phone devices by means of downloading the appropriate app from the same website.

Yahoo!7

In November 2011, Yahoo!7 launched Fango, a free iOS and Android application which allows TV viewers to discuss and interact with TV programs being shown on Seven (particularly shows with a large community following, such as Home and Away and Border Security) and other TV shows.


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