Before any smart kid complains about this post I am only posting this because there are still those who are in the dark and know not yet what the see(referring to a question on the main sticky column.)
if you define android it means an automaton that resembles a human being
when it comes to the android phone it means:
and I quote from WIKIPEDIA.com
"Android is a software platform for mobile devices, powered by the Linux kernel, initially developed by Google and later the Open Handset Alliance.[2] It allows developers to write managed code in the Java language, controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries.[3] Applications written in C and other languages can be compiled to ARM native code and run, but this development path is not officially supported by Google.[4][5]

The unveiling of the Android platform on 5 November 2007 was announced with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 48 hardware, software, and telecom companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices.[6][7] Google released most of the Android code under the Apache license, a free-software and open source license."

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