Eight unknown facts of android -

• It wasn't Google's idea: Android was the
brainchild of
Andy Rubin, who founded Android Inc. in
October 2003
with the aim of creating a new mobile
platform. Google
later bought Android Inc. and hired Rubin
and others in
August 2005.
• It almost didn't work out: Android almost
immediately
ran out of cash after its founding, only to be
saved,
according to the Businessweek, by Steve
Perlman.
• The Nexus line was a hot rumour years
before the
Nexus One: People started predicting about
the
"gPhone" as early as 2007 though Nexus
came out in
2010.
• 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."
• 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.
• 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.
• Every app you run on your Android phone
gets its own
virtual machine: Each active app on an
Android device
runs in its own Dalvik VM, which keeps it
safe and
separate from core functions. This improves
battery life
and boosts performance of the phone.
• 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.