{"id":92812,"date":"2017-08-03T15:42:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T15:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=92812"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:49:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:49:18","slug":"googles-new-secret-is-the-most-bizarre-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/googles-new-secret-is-the-most-bizarre-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s new secret is the most bizarre yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Google has a reputation for\u00a0hiding unusual secrets in all its products, but this latest one takes the cake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Heard of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/sch\/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.Xphone.TRS0&amp;_nkw=android\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Android<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> O? It\u2019s the code name for the next version of Android&#8217;s cell phone Operating System. It\u2019s already in testing phases. Many details are already known but there\u2019s still one to find out: What does the \u201cO\u201d stand for? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The answer may be found in a quirky secret that Google has hidden in the latest update of the Android O beta version. The O could stand for \u201coctopus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the new Android O version, if you go to Settings &#8211; System &#8211; About this phone, and then press the item \u201cAndroid Version\u201d a few times, a giant version of the \u201cO\u201d logo will appear. Once again, by pressing the logo for a good long while, a dynamic image will appear where you can control a rather creepy octopus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-140178\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2021\/04\/Capture_nuhauu.jpg\" alt=\"Captura\" width=\"904\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this video you can see the trick and the octopus in action.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"ytp-chrome-top ytp-share-button-visible\" data-layer=\"1\">\n<div class=\"ytp-title\" data-visual-id=\"1\">\n<div class=\"ytp-title-text\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X1yLwv1ljBg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"ytp-title-subtext\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ytp-cued-thumbnail-overlay\" data-layer=\"4\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Google has repeated this secret in each new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/sch\/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.Xphone.TRS0&amp;_nkw=android\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Android<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> version to give a sense of what the official name might be. This time, the usual part\u00a0is that so far each Android version was named after a dessert or sweet. At least in my house, we don\u2019t consider octopus dessert.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, we\u2019re facing two possibilities: either Android O breaks the tradition of dessert names, or Google is using red herrings to confuse everybody. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What do you think?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has a reputation for\u00a0hiding unusual secrets in all its products, but this latest one takes the cake. Heard of Android O? It\u2019s the code name for the next version of Android&#8217;s cell phone Operating System. It\u2019s already in testing phases. Many details are already known but there\u2019s still one to find out: What does &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/googles-new-secret-is-the-most-bizarre-yet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google\u2019s new secret is the most bizarre yet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":92854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-92812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328653,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92812\/revisions\/328653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92812"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=92812"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=92812"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=92812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}