Can a smartphone OS peak at version 2.3 and still define the platform for the next five years? That’s exactly what happened with Gingerbread. It launched in December 2010, and by 2013 — when Android 4.x had been available for two years — Gingerbread still ran on over 30% of active Android devices.
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Google Nexus S Revisited: The Royal Droid That Missed Its Moment
If you’re looking back at the Google Nexus S as some kind of lost Android king, you need to look a lot closer at what Google and Samsung actually shipped. This was billed as the “Royal Droid” and the first Gingerbread phone, but under the crown there’s a lot of 2010 hardware, 2009 imaging, and […]