Asian Mystery: UC Service App By LG On Android Market – What Is It?
Right before finding Google Shopper on Android Market I passed an application by LG that was just launched called UC Service. It had no icon, less than 50 downloads, and the description was “Can use Universal Communicator Service”. I downloaded it, opened it up and it was simply a black screen with several buttons featuring Asian text of some sort.
I pressed one and a in the upper left of my status bar was a “UC” icon that measured a signal of some sort. I had/have 4 bars. Here is a quick video for anyone interested in seeing a bit more of the mystery (at least to an uno-lingual person):
I decided to do the Google Shopper hands-on and come back to this. During the video I mentioned Google Goggles and thought about how the PERFECT investigational tool already existed – too bad not for the public. I did a some Googling and didn’t come up with much but here are some tidbits:
- #1 result for “Universal Communicator Service” is a Wired.com article from 2008 talking about VoxOx who provide, “free VoIP, video chat, SMS, file sharing, fax and IM/social network/e-mail aggregation for both Macs ad PCs”. The article also mentions it is similar to Skype (VoxOx that is).
- The UC status bar icon wasn’t anything I’ve seen on any status icon list that I could find
- This is the ONLY application from this developer on Android Market
- The developer phone number is (812) 369-8383 which is Madison, Indiana. LG Electronics has shop set up in Louisville, Kentucky which is only 1 hour away. Hmmmm.
- Developer website listed as http://www.lge.com – obviously the official LG website
- Developer E-Mail listed as uc.mcs.lg@gmail.com – turned up nothing
- Package name: com.uc.ver1
I was in bed, about to go to sleep and felt the need to do TWO video reviews. My Sherlock and Watsoning glass is half empty so I leave you with this request: if you can read the text in the video can you translate it in the comments? I’m guessing it is a rather useless “test” application of some sort, but you never know – if you throw enough spaghetti at a wall, eventually some strands are going to stick!