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The first public release of Android 1.0 occurred with the release of the T-Mobile G1 (aka HTC Dream) in October 2008. [10] Android 1.0 and 1.1 were not released under specific code names . [ 11 ] The code names "Astro Boy" and "Bender" were tagged internally on some of the early pre-1.0 milestone builds and were never used as the actual code ...
A preview of 7.1 for existing Nexus devices was released via Android Beta Program later in the month, [30] and officially released as Android 7.1.1 on December 5, 2016. [31] [32] [33] As of 7.1.1, the Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 were considered end-of-life, and did not receive any further updates. [34]
HTC announced their intent to release an update for the Hero in the first half of 2010 that would upgrade the Android OS to version 2.1 while incorporating Sense. This news was released via Twitter on December 17, 2009. [14] Sprint further clarified on their own Twitter that the 2.1 update would be released early in the second quarter of 2010. [15]
In May 2017, with the announcement of Android 8.0, Google introduced Project Treble, a major re-architect of the Android OS framework designed to make it easier, faster, and less costly for manufacturers to update devices to newer versions of Android. Project Treble separates the vendor implementation (device-specific, lower-level software ...
This series' Galaxy A3 runs Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow with TouchWiz user interface right out-of-the-box. The smartphone features an Exynos 7870 SoC consisting an octa-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU and Mali-T830 GPU and backed by 2 GB RAM and 16 GB internal storage expandable to 256 GB via the MicroSD slot which can also be used for a second Nano-SIM .
Android Marshmallow's "adopted storage" feature is disabled and not usable. [39] A software update in September 2016 added support for Vulkan, a new low-level graphics API. [40] In January 2017, Samsung released an update to Android 7.0 "Nougat", which replaced Grace UX with the Samsung Experience software suite (introduced in the Galaxy S8).
The Essential Phone (officially Phone or PH-1) [7] is a discontinued Android smartphone designed by Android co-founder Andy Rubin, and manufactured, developed and marketed by Essential Products. The phone was announced on May 30, 2017 and released on August 17, 2017.
The November 6, 2009, release date of the Droid came just under a month after Verizon and Google announced that they had entered into an agreement [20] to jointly develop wireless devices based on the Android mobile platform. Verizon said at the time that it planned to have two Android-based handsets on the market by year-end with more to come ...