Android 10 years old, 10 times surprised the world

Android has a 10-year history and it has changed everything. Not bad with a 10-year journey. Let's TipsMake.com look back on Android history over the past 10 years, from the time Android was born until the 10th birthday of the most popular mobile operating system in this world.

November 5, 2007 - Android was born

It's been 10 years since Google started something that will change the entire mobile phone market. 'We are claiming something . bigger and more ambitious than a phone,' said Andy Rubin of Google at the time. That is Android.

'We hope to have thousands of phones using Android.', CEO Eric Schmidt added. Thousands? No, it's billions. Ten years after that date, Google said there were 1 billion monthly devices running Android.

10 years ago, Google began its journey with Android. Now is the time to look back at 10 important milestones on this road.

October 22, 2008 - The first Android phone

Nearly 1 year after the announcement of Android, the phone using this OS has been born dearly called Googlephone. HTC Dream, or T-Mobile G1 is the first Android phone.

This is a smooth start, because although it is not necessarily an iPhone defeat, it is almost like that. According to Techradar ,, this phone 'is easy to get into the top 5 smartphones ever created and shows why there is so much to expect from Google Android'.

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T-Mobile G1 is the first Android smartphone

Now that the T-Mobile G1 is very old, it looks like Nokia Communicator paired with O2 XDA. But at the time, this was really a great new product on a market where Apple seemed to have it all.

January 5, 2010 - Waterway of Nexus

When evaluating the Google Nexus One, the HTC-produced phone and integrating some of Google's modern technologies, Techradar said 'it can't be felt that there will be more from the tech giant'. .

Theoretically it is better than the iPhone but although not as smooth as the Apple phone, it still has significant improvements compared to other Android products.

February 24, 2011 - The road takes us to Xoom

Motorola Xoom was not the first Android tablet, but it was the first one to be really better, but the previous attempt was just to use the phone OS, making it bigger and hoping to be like the iPad.

Xoom is different. It runs Android 3.0 Honeycomb, also the first Android to think of tablets since design.

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Tablet running Android 3.0 Honeycomb

At that time, there were few applications for tablets, causing Android tablet in general and Xoom in particular to be in trouble for some time. But it has shown the world that Android tablets are not necessarily cheap and bad. It can be a bit expensive and a bit smart.

October 19, 2011 - Everyone screamed for Ice Cream

Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), was announced in October 2011 despite being mentioned a year earlier. Some users have to wait a long time before the producer has the supply.

This is a big problem with Android when iOS updates simultaneously on all devices and Android has to drip under each brand. Although this may be a bit embarrassing, ICS is still a revolution, not just about the interface but also messages, contacts, photos and videos.

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Android has reached the 10-year-old road

It makes Android more friendly, sometimes friendly too when applications such as video players are too simple - and a very good platform for test developers.

October 29, 2011 - Born phablet with Note

How did we ridicule: a 5.3-inch screen smartphone is too big, and everyone knows what Steve Jobs said about the pen and touch screen 'if you see a touch pen you it was wrong. '

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Note turned out to be more favorite than expected

But Samsung Galaxy Note has created a new smartphone line called phablet and many people like it. Samsung sold 1 million units in just the first 2 months.

It's still good even after upgrading Ice Cream Sandwich, causing us to raise our hands and complain that 'we're wrong, Samsung will sell a lot - for tech enthusiasts and ordinary people'.

March 6, 2012 - A common Google Play market

Google made many people surprised when including Android Market, Google Music and Google eBookstore into a store, the only application called Google Play. This is intentional and also necessary when Google tries to imitate Apple, bringing all apps and entertainment to iTunes.

While Apple is determined to use iTunes as a backyard for its services, though it's not very popular, it is much more meaningful to put multiple stores together with a variety of content types about a basket. Android is therefore more user friendly.

See also: Compare two Google Play app markets and App Store

September 11, 2012 - Android is on its way

In 2012, Google announced after 4 years, there are 300 million Android devices being activated with 850,000 times per day. Only 7 months later, the number was half a billion.

Admittedly, that number includes bad cheap low-quality phones, but there are also really impressive and competitive ones on the market. Android market share accounts for 75% of the global market, most of which are from Samsung.

September 3, 2013 - Big numbers, big problems

The number of Android devices increased rapidly, by 9/2013, 1 billion devices were activated. But when many devices run multiple OS versions, the problem arises, such as the Stagefright hole.

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Despite rapid growth, Android also faces many problems

'Obviously many manufacturers don't pay attention to updating Android . Android users deserve more than that,' Techradar wrote that day. There are holes discovered and patched years ago still exist.

Google Play Services is to fix such problems.

June 25, 2014 - Android ecosystem

The Google IO 2014 event is extremely interesting, though not all inventions will pass the time challenge. Android Wear seems to no longer shine over time. Android TV makes us swear at Sony TV more than we want and Google Glass from the hero becomes zero.

But the story here is, Android is everywhere. Chromecast turned out to be a hit and Android Auto was also growing fast.

Obviously Android is not just an operating system. It is an ecosystem that includes houses, cars, technology and TVs.

7/2016 - Conquer new milestones

Android also sold more than iOS, but in 7/2016 there was a significant change: an Android flagship, Samsung Galaxy S7 surpassed and sold more than a flagship Apple iPhone 6S.

In the US, from mid-February and May 2016, Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge also sold more than iPhone 6S and 6S Plus.

This is in part due to the moment when updating iPhone tick-tock point, 6S correction is a tock later, a slightly revised version of iPhone 6, not a new one. Many people still wait for iPhone 7, and partly because Samsung has created a good phone too.

But this also shows that Android has finally reached the level that people love and admire, instead of letting Apple dominate forever.

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The battle between iOS and Android has not come to an end

In the way of Android, how far can it reach, make any other achievements or sleep on victory and be overtaken by rivals? Let's wait until Android's 20th birthday to check it out! Happy Android birthday, wish Android bigger and stronger.