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  2. Android 10 - Wikipedia

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    Android 10 (codenamed Android Q during development) is the tenth major release and the 17th version of the Android mobile operating system. It was first released as a developer preview on March 13, 2019, and was released publicly on September 3, 2019. Android 10 was officially released on September 3, 2019, for supported Google Pixel devices ...

  3. Android version history - Wikipedia

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    The version history of the Android mobile operating system began with the public release of its first beta on November 5, 2007. The first commercial version, Android 1.0, was released on September 23, 2008. The operating system is developed by Google on a yearly cadence since at least 2011. [1] New major releases are announced at Google I/O in ...

  4. Android 12 - Wikipedia

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    Android 12's Developer Preview logo. Android 12 (internally codenamed Snow Cone) [9] was announced in an Android blog posted on February 18, 2021. [10] A developer preview was released immediately, [11] [12] with two additional ones planned the following two months. After that, four monthly beta releases were planned, beginning in May, the last ...

  5. Android (operating system) - Wikipedia

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    Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android has historically been developed by a consortium of developers known as the Open Handset Alliance, but its most widely used version is ...

  6. Comparison of mobile operating systems - Wikipedia

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    Google, Open Handset Alliance. Apple Inc. Huawei. Linux Foundation, Tizen Association, Samsung, Intel. KaiOS Technologies Inc. (TCL) Sailfish Alliance, Mer, Jolla and Sailfish community contributors. UBports and Ubuntu community contributors (previously Canonical Ltd.) Debian on Mobile Team. KDE and Blue Systems.

  7. Android 11 - Wikipedia

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    Android 11 is the eleventh major release and 18th version of Android, the mobile operating system developed by the Open Handset Alliance led by Google. [4] It was released on September 8, 2020. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The first phone launched in Europe with Android 11 was the Vivo X51 5G [ 7 ] and after its full stable release, the first phone in the world ...

  8. Rooting (Android) - Wikipedia

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    Rooting[ 1 ] is the process by which users of Android devices can attain privileged control (known as root access) over various subsystems of the device, usually smartphones and tablets. Because Android is based on a modified version of the Linux kernel, rooting an Android device gives similar access to administrative (superuser) permissions as ...

  9. Smartphone - Wikipedia

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    The "Sooner" prototype Android smartphone. A smartphone, often simply called a phone, is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities. It typically has a touchscreen interface, allowing users to access a wide range of applications and services, such as web browsing, email ...