Google Creates 'Android Chorus' With 300 Android Smartphones and Tablets

Google's Japan unit last week, in an attempt to showcase its Androidify app's "Be Together. Not the Same" philosophy, synchronized 300 Android devices to create a digital choir.

The differently customised Android avatars from the Androidify app, which lets users "create, accessorise and share Android characters", were synchronised across 300 smartphones and tablets to sing along in several preprogrammed songs - including Beethoven's Ode to Joy. The avatars also danced to the tune.

The digital choir, which Google calls it "Android Chorus", was installed in the Omotesando Hills shopping centre in Tokyo from February 12 to February 15. Shoppers could also conduct the Androidify choir with gestures.

"A lot of people play music on their phones," Yuko Akiyama, Google Japan's Head of Device Marketing, said in a blog post about the initiative. "But what about using those phones to make music? [..] 300 different characters singing in perfect harmony is just another illustration of how Android is about being together not the same," Yuko added.

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To remind you about Androidify, Google had revamped the app last year in October, alongside Android 5.0 Lollipop, with new animated Android characters to share in texts, posts or chats as emoticons, animated gif and regular images.

The Androidify app was last updated on February 5, with options like NBA gear (jerseys and shorts for all 30 NBA teams) and more. The company had included nine new shareable animations for a total of 32 different animation choices.

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