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As of July 13, 2011, the Droid is able to be updated to the Android 2.3.4 ROM, but with many small updates and edits to the base code in order to properly run. [36] On July 26, 2011, an Android 2.3.5 ROM was made available for the DROID [37] that, like the Android 2.3.4 ROM, has been modified to improve performance on the smart phone.
Android 2.3 Gingerbread is the seventh version of Android, a version of the Android mobile operating system developed by Google and released in December 2010. Version
[157] [158] Chinese companies are building a PC and mobile operating system, based on Android, to "compete directly with Microsoft Windows and Google Android". [159] The Chinese Academy of Engineering noted that "more than a dozen" companies were customizing Android following a Chinese ban on the use of Windows 8 on government PCs.
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.
In April 2015, BlueStacks, Inc. unveiled that a new version of the App Player, named 2.0, was under development for macOS and was eventually released in July. [14] In December 2015, BlueStacks, Inc. introduced BlueStacks 2.0, [15] enabling users to run multiple Android applications simultaneously. [16]
It uses a hyperglazed plastic body (the same as the Samsung Galaxy S III) and is available in Chic White and Dark Blue. The phone originally ran on Android 4.1.2 "Jelly Bean" with Samsung's TouchWiz Nature UX. [81] An update to Android 4.2.2 was made available. Also released was a I9105P model, which supports NFC. [82]
By Q1 2018, over 383 million smartphones were sold with 85.9 percent running Android, 14.1 percent running iOS and a negligible number of smartphones running other OSes. [278] Android alone is more popular than the popular desktop operating system Windows, and in general, smartphone use (even without tablets) exceeds desktop use.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 December 2024. Family of Unix-like operating systems This article is about the family of operating systems. For the kernel, see Linux kernel. For other uses, see Linux (disambiguation). Operating system Linux Tux the penguin, the mascot of Linux Developer Community contributors, Linus Torvalds Written ...