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this is a nice history of android, noobs should take a look at what we had before lol http://pocketnow.com/thought/android-10-to-21-what-has-changed
 
Back when the G1 really felt like a beta testing phone.

I remember the end call screen taking forever and a day to disappear.
 
Yeah, I got my G1 in November 2008 and Joined A/C in January 2009. Waited on cupcake for months after it was to be released and the donut was late as usual. Now with eclair android is a whole lot better than in 2008.
 
Great little article. I worry about version fragmentation too. Combine that with fragmentation caused by paid apps being only available in certain countries, apps being limited by locale (EU, US, UK, Asia, etc), apps being limited by language, etc, I find it worrying that not much seems to be being done about it to allow everyone to use every app.

I'm not sure what they mean by "Android 1.5 was the version that most early adopters ran on their first phones (including the T-Mobile G1 and HTC Dream)"

The T-Mobile G1 and HTC Dream are the same phone. My T-Mobile G1 came with Android 1.0. I got 1.1 a few weeks later, then 1.5 a few months after that.
 
yea, they have no idea what we had to endure on 1.0. and how long we waited for 1.5, thats why all these, "when will my phone receive the update?" or "2.1 is coming on this date", threads are funny to me.
 
People have completely dropped that terminology even though it's important (due to different releases of any version targeted at different devices, locales, etc). Now it's all "Cupcake" and "Donut" and stuff. I still reckon 1.6, 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.1, etc are better. I mean Eclair covers 3 versions.
 
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