Android 2.3 Gingerbread arrived on the Nexus S in December 2010 with a darker, cleaner interface, a better keyboard, NFC support and copy-and-paste improvements. Because so many cheap phones shipped with it, Gingerbread was still the most-used Android version well into 2013.
- Vendor
- Version
- 2.3
- Released
- 6 December 2010
- Type
- os
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