Android: A visual history

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Google?s Android operating system has undergone a pretty incredible metamorphosis in the three short years since it debuted on the T-Mobile G1. Think about it: three years, eight major releases. Eight. To put that in perspective, there have only been ten major consumer-grade releases of Windows (give or take, depending on how you count) in over twenty-five years of retail availability. You could make a pretty convincing argument that no consumer technology in history has evolved as quickly as the smartphone, and Android has been at the very center of that evolution.

With the release of Android 4.1 ? Jelly Bean ? on Samsung?s Galaxy Nexus and Asus' Nexus 7, we wanted to take a look back through the years at how Andy Rubin?s brainchild has evolved into the industry titan that it is today. What?s changed? What has (sometimes stubbornly) stayed the same?

http://www.theverge....android-history

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  On 05/07/2012 at 19:21, Jdawg683 said:

pretty neat - not so much a visual history as just a worded history with a couple pictures :p

This.

Atm I'm in "tl;dr" mode, so I hoped for a video :p

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