Three years ago, the Android OS was just a buzzword. But quite a few handsets later, it's a powerful force. CNET takes a look back at all the Android goodness that has come.

The first Android phone — the HTCDream, known in the US as the T-Mobile G1 — would set the wheels in motion for a mobile revolution.

Android 2.1 aka Eclair is eclipsing other flavors of the Google-designed operating system to become the dominant version on Android phones. 50 percent of Android phones now run Android 2.1 ...

They may not be cool, and they're certainly not up to date, but there are millions of old Android smartphones out there running 2016's Android 7.1 Nougat or earlier. On Sep. 1, 2021, however ...

Many of the 10 million infected phones are running old versions of Android and reside in China (1.6 million) and India (1.35 million). Still, US-based infected phones total almost 287,000.

Now, Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update is available on Android. Developer ConcernedApe announced that the update would land on Android, iOS, and consoles on November 4, and that update is now ...

On Pixel, search for “Allow 2G” in Settings app. Additionally: Android also has an option to disable null ciphers as a key protection because it is strictly necessary for the 2G FBS to ...

If your phone is starved for internal storage and you can't spare any of your hard-earned apps, you can try moving them to your SD card instead (at least, if you're running Android 2.3 or earlier).

The phone actually had a good life, as far as updates are concerned. It came with Android 1.6 Donut out of the box, then got up to 2.1 Eclair and that’s as far as it was planned to go.