As the world's most popular smart platform, Android is applied in many products thanks to its excellent openness. It can be used in smartphones, tablets, or even smart home appliances. In addition, you can use an ordinary Android device to perform some seemingly impossible operations. Below are the five unexpected uses of the Android system that we have summarized.
1. Playing "StarCraft"
Yes, running the classic game "StarCraft" on an Android smartphone or tablet is not a problem; all you need is an emulator. The Windows emulator software named "Winulator" supports many classic PC games, including "StarCraft" and "Caesar III." The emulator simulates mouse and keyboard operations via virtual buttons. After careful tuning, it can still achieve decent gaming performance. In fact, apart from PC games, the Android system also has emulators for various gaming platforms such as PS, SFC, GB, or arcade games. If you're a fan of retro games, an Android phone becomes a gaming console.
2. Turning into a "Weather Station"
Just by downloading a weather station app, your Android phone or tablet can become a professional meteorological terminal. Unlike regular weather forecasts, you can measure air pressure, humidity, temperature, and many other parameters, allowing for more accurate weather predictions.
3. Running Mac OS 7
Perhaps its appearance is just for nostalgia, but it does show you what Android can do. An application called "Mini vMac" allows Android devices to emulate computer systems from the 1980s that used Motorola processors, such as Mac OS 7. You can operate this classic black-and-white system using a virtual keyboard and run some applications.
4. Mining Bitcoin
Bitcoin is a new global virtual currency that can be exchanged for real US dollars, making the term "mining" increasingly popular. If you have a capable Android device, congratulations! You can run mining apps like "DroidMiner" and "AndLTC" on it. Who knows, you might mine a large amount of Bitcoin and convert it into real money, opening up a new path to wealth.
5. Augmented Reality
Although generally speaking, Android platform games are mostly ports from iOS and rarely feature exclusive blockbusters, some augmented reality (AR) applications are still quite interesting. For example, "Augment" and "Ingress" both use real-world scenes as gaming platforms, giving you a very realistic gaming experience. Additionally, apps like "iOnRoad" capture real-time views through the camera and overlay route navigation on the screen, providing an AR navigation experience. Or "Word Lens," which lets you capture text from the real world through the camera, automatically detects the language, and translates it, making it very convenient.
In short, the excellent openness of Android allows it to do many things, and we look forward to you discovering even more.