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In our area there is gadget called "IRobot" which the supplier claims has Android 1.4 inside. I am afraid that it might be a "fake" version of the Android OS. I do not have experience with Android so are there any guidelines I can use to check that a device is really running Android? Also, is there a way to check if a version of Android can be updated?

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As far as I'm aware there was never a 1.4 version of Android with any wide release. Major versions were 1.0, 1.1, 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1 & 2.2 so that already looks suspicious. – GAThrawn Aug 19 '10 at 10:18

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I've never heard of Android 1.4, but it could exist. It could be a dev release or something but just was never widely used.

Go to your wireless carrier store and see what OS the phones should be running. Then make a purchase.

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True, and as Android is an open source OS that any manufacturer can download and then modify to work with their device, there's no real point in anyone creating a fake version of Android when they can get the real thing for free. – GAThrawn Aug 20 '10 at 9:54
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I doubt that someone has created a fake Android OS version. But someone could claim they have a device and purposely or accidentally mis-represent the version on said device. I'm not sure what the advantage would be to do it on purpose though. – Webs Aug 23 '10 at 13:25
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You could try entering *#*#4636#*#* into the phone's Dialer application. This should open up a menu with all kinds of data about the phone.

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Before you enter any dailer codes you should make sure you know what they do! – Amanda Mar 25 '11 at 13:33
@Amanda Is there an overview of all dialer codes? – Ragnar123 Dec 15 '11 at 20:37
@Amanda you said it like that combination hides a self-destruction subroutine :) – djechelon Dec 16 '11 at 20:26

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