New Androids Will Need

[techbeck]

 

For better or worse, Samsung, HTC, and the rest of the Android manufacturing lot just looove to mess with the way Google?s OS looks and feels. So much so, in fact, that the OS sometimes stops looking like Android at all.

 

Seemingly annoyed by the lack of credit where credit is due, Google has started asking manufacturers to show a ?Powered By Android? logo at startup.

 

According to some reports, this is now a requirement if the manufacturer wants access to Google? first-party stuff: the Google Play store, Google?s official Gmail app, etc. (But, pfft, who wants that stuff? Besides absolutely everyone who buys an Android phone.)

 

The guys over at Android Police have managed to get their hands on a document that outlines exactly how the ?Powered by Android? text has to be displayed. The too-long, didn?t read version? It has to be visible, it has to be big (at least half an inch tall in most cases), and you can?t crowd it into obscurity.

 

More...

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/28/new-android-handsets-will-need-powered-by-android-logo-to-get-google-play-gmail-etc/

[+John Teacake MVC]

Fair enough I suppose. 

[spacer]

As long as it's not embossed on the phone hardware itself, I fine with it. Printing it on the back of the phone or somewhere around the screen is an automatic ignore in my book.

[firey]

Makes sense,  I wonder how many people get the phone and don't realize it's android.

[The_Observer]

I think this is great. imho i think anyone that uses android should have this should not just the ones using google store.

[techbeck]

No different than the Intel/Windows stickers on all OEM systems.  And as long as it doesnt popup all the time or in an annoying place, shouldnt be a problem. I hope it is like the OP pic.  Just shown at startup.

[The_Observer]

No different than the Intel/Windows stickers on all OEM systems.  And as long as it doesnt popup all the time or in an annoying place, shouldnt be a problem. I hope it is like the OP pic.  Just shown at startup.

 

From other locations the new HTC one (M8) and S5 have this all ready. 

[McKay]

I can see where they're coming from, if I ask any of my non-techie friends they've never heard of android and don't even know what it is, despite them owning Android phones. To them they "use a Samsung" or "use a HTC"

[techbeck]

From other locations the new HTC one (M8) and S5 have this all ready. 

 

So the pic in the OP is legit?  OP made it seem like it wasnt for sure.  Have not seen the S5 boot up.  This must of been decided a while ago and just now being made known of.

[The_Observer]

So the pic in the OP is legit?  OP made it seem like it wasnt for sure.  Have not seen the S5 boot up.  This must of been decided a while ago and just now being made known of.

 

http://vr-zone.com/articles/future-android-devices-branded-powered-android-text-courtesy-google/74911.html

 

 

Two of the hottest new Android flagships, the Samsung Galaxy S5 and HTC One (M8), will greet users with the message ?Powered by Android?, with ?Android? written in the classic font that was last seen on the HTC G1 in 2009, the first consumer Android handset.

[Raa]

Not really seeing an issue with this.