U.S. Army Recruits Android, and App Developers Too

Android: drop and give us 20. The U.S. Army wants YOU to build its first smartphone.

Android:  drop and give us 20.  The U.S. Army wants YOU to build its first smartphone.

The U.S. Army announced that it has enlisted Google’s Android operating system to power its first smartphone.

Wired’s Danger Room blog reports, “A prototype device running Android called the Joint Battle Command-Platform (JBC-P Handheld), developed by tech nonprofit MITRE, is undergoing tests. The development kit behind it, called the Mobile /Handheld Computing Environment, will be released to app creators in July, the Army says.”

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