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.

Android versions 2.0 to 2.1: Eclair. Keeping up the breakneck release pace of Android’s early years, Android 2.0, Eclair, emerged just six weeks after Donut; its “point-one” update, also ...

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.

With Google I/O 2025 streaming next week, we're taking a walk through the complete history of Android, from its humble beginnings in 2008 to today, with Android 16 on the way.

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 ...

The T-Mobile G1 was a chunky little slider phone that had poor battery life, but even so, it showed potential thanks to an operating system Google acquired called Android. Ten years later, we look ...