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Dixons Retail unveils the Advent Vega, a 10-inch tablet PC running Android 2.2, having a micro SD card slot, a USB port and a 16h battery life for audio playback and 6.5h for 1080p video. [124] HP releases the Slate 500, running a full-version of Windows 7. 2011 Motorola releases Xoom a 10-inch tablet running Android 3.0 (Honeycomb).
Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" Windows 8 v10.8 Mountain Lion Android 4.1.x–4.2.x "Jelly Bean" v10.9 Mavericks Windows 8.1 Android 4.3 "Jelly Bean" Android 4.4 "KitKat" v10.10 Yosemite Android 5.0 "Lollipop" Computer networks: 802.11ac: Computer graphics: Hugo wins Oscar Visual Effects: CryEngine3 and its 3D soft body physics
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 ...
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 Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California, in October 2003 by Andy Rubin and Chris White, with Rich Miner and Nick Sears [13] [14] joining later. Rubin and White started out build an Operating System for digital cameras viz FotoFrame. The company name was changed to Android as Rubin already owned the domain name android.com.
HP Compaq tablet PC with rotating/removable keyboard. Microsoft Tablet PC is a term coined by Microsoft for tablet computers conforming to hardware specifications, devised by Microsoft, and announced in 2001 for a pen-enabled personal computer and running a licensed copy of the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system or a derivative ...
On May 2, 2017, Microsoft unveiled Windows 10 S (referred to in leaks as Windows 10 Cloud), a feature-limited edition of Windows 10 which was designed primarily for devices in the education market (competing, in particular, with ChromeOS netbooks), such as the Surface Laptop that Microsoft also unveiled at this time. The OS restricts software ...
Windows 1.0, the first independent version of Microsoft Windows, released on November 20, 1985, achieved little popularity. The project was briefly codenamed "Interface Manager" before the windowing system was implemented—contrary to popular belief that it was the original name for Windows and Rowland Hanson, the head of marketing at Microsoft, convinced the company that the name Windows ...