I’ve always had this sneaking suspicion that there was a Japanese high school manga about everything, and the existence of “Sweet Android High-School” is as good as proof in my book. “Sweet Android High-School” isn’t exactly what it sounds like, but at the same time, it sort of is; it’s a high school manga in which all the characters are personified Android phone vendors. They aren’t actual androids, as far as I can tell, but frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised.

Ever wonder what a composite Android user would look like if you pieced him together from other people based on statistics from the Android-using population at large? Neither have I, but since my Republic Wireless phone (an LG Optimus) arrived yesterday, I am champing at the bit to identify as an Android user, so I find the statistics of this infographic by BlueStacks very interesting, and the picture a nice bonus. Apparently 18% of Android users self-report an “unusually large head,” so I obviously picked the right group to associate with. And ladies, fear not, BlueStacks has a Ms. Android in the pipe as well.

Check it out after the jump.

In a twist very dissimilar from the old “PCs are for games, Macs are for art,” adage, a new study has found that Apple’s mobile phone juggernaut, the iPhone, is primarily used for games, where its competition, Android, is primarily used for apps. This is something Apple has not quite experienced before, and still doesn’t experience in the computer market, as Windows is still seen as the primary PC game platform, whereas Macs are still trying to play catch-up, even with the help of services like Steam that have filled the OS X gaming library.

Ever since Android’s operating system was named Ice Cream Sandwich, many of us can’t help but think Android uses ridiculous naming conventions. This doesn’t only apply to the operating systems, but also to the actual hardware that runs them. It’s not exactly Android’s fault. It’s openness leads to a ton of different phones being able to adopt the software, and each different phone needs a name distinguishing it from all of the others. However, regardless of where the fault lies, the names of the phones that run Android are getting out of control. Yinzcam realized this, and created the Android Phone Name Generator, strictly for our collective amusement.

It seems Android isn’t the only one with silly, silly code names for their mobile operating system versions. Apple has them too; they just don’t throw them around as much as Android does. Maybe it’s a matter of professionalism or maybe its because, I hate to say it, their iOS code names are kind of lame. I’m not going to say there aren’t righteous ones like “Hoodoo” and, well, “Hoodoo,” but “Sugar Bowl” kind of sounds like a rip-off, and “Heavenly”? That’s a little overconfident, don’t you think?

Full list of code names and the iOS versions they rep after the jump.

Google Maps, not content trying to map the entire outside world is now moving in the new, logical, but still mind-blowing direction of mapping indoors. Coming part and parcel with the Google Maps 6.0 for Android devices is the new indoor functionality that will allow users to basically carry around a minimap in their pocket. Intended to help you figure out where the menswear section is, or where you can find the nearest bathroom, or the nearest exit, Google Maps interiors can not only show you the map of the floor your on, but also those directly above and below you and keep track of which one you’re actually on. Just when I thought I was starting to get jaded about this sort of stuff, Google blows me away. We’re living in the future, people.

Rich Jones over at Gun.io recently came across the official Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Heat Safety app on the Android marketplace. This all sounds rather hum-drum, and really, it is. The app is pretty dull, providing some heat safety tips, a heat index converter, and the ability to pull down information from NOAA’s weather database. Apparently, it doesn’t do all of those things, but that’s not too surprising — bad apps aren’t exactly news.

The real surprise came when Jones filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request through Muckrock.com, and discovered that the app — which is not exactly in working order — cost nearly $200,000 to develop.

Meet the Cotton Candy: FXI technologies’ USB stick-size portable computer prototype with a dual-core 1.2-GHz Samsung Exynos ARM CPU. That’s the same processor in a Samsung Galaxy S II, by the way. Also, it has 802.11n Wi-Fi capability, Bluetooth, HDMI-out and a microSD memory slot. Yeah. This little guy packs a punch. The device is designed for what’s being called “any screen computing” meaning that when you plug this bad boy into a screen, it can turn it into a Android workstation on the spot. We’re talking pretty much any screen too. TV, laptop, tablet, phone, any of them will work. So why’s this beefy little dude called Cotton Candy? That’s how much it weighs.

If you’ve never been drunk with a breathalyzer at hand, I’m not sure that I can recommend it, but I can say that it’s an interesting experience. Al Linke seems to think it’s interesting too, as he’s been working on increasingly feature-laden breathalyzers. It all started with a project to make a talking breathalyzer that could tweet your BAC and read you the weather, if you wanted it to. The next step Linke took, was to create one with Bluetooth capability than can interface with Android phones via the IOIO board. Basically, you can use this wireless Breathalyzer to do all sorts of things on your phone.

iPhone versus Android: The eternal mobile battle. There are a lot of ways you can come at the competition: Which has the better hardware, which has better customization options, which has the better software and development capabilities, which one has the least annoying fanboys, and one more: Which users have more friends? And that is what this infographic courtesy of Onavo tackles.

Okay, not really who has more friends, but rather, who uses which social apps and how. But that’s totally the same as who has more friends, right? It’s not like anyone ever just uses social networks to self-promote or pester people they don’t really know with details of their life that no one reads or cares about. No, social networking is all about maintaining deep, involved relationships. Definitely. But the iPhone has 27% more Facebook use, so those guys must be more popular.