2010 Search

27 reconstructed results for android in the 2010 exhibit.

1. Android 2.2 Froyo - Flash on a phone, tethering, and a huge speed boost

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/android-froyo

   Android 2.2, announced at Google I/O in May 2010, made Android phones two to five times faster with a JIT compiler, added Wi-Fi hotspot tethering, Chrome-to-Phone, apps...

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2. Android Market - 100,000 apps, and the Angry Birds free-for-all

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/android-market-2010

   Android Market, the store that became Google Play in 2012, passed 100,000 apps in October 2010. Its green robot storefront was messier than Apple's and full of free,...

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3. Android 2.3 Gingerbread - The version that lingered for years

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/android-gingerbread

   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...

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4. Nexus One - Google's own Android phone, sold online

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nexus-one

   Google announced the HTC-built Nexus One on 5 January 2010 and sold it unlocked from its own web store for $529, an experiment in bypassing carriers that ended within...

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5. HTC Desire - The Nexus One with Sense, and Europe's Android favourite

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/htc-desire

   The HTC Desire was essentially a Nexus One with HTC's Sense interface, an optical trackpad and physical buttons. Released in Europe in spring 2010, it became one of the...

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6. Samsung Galaxy Tab - The first serious Android tablet

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/samsung-galaxy-tab

   The 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab, released in November 2010, was the first major Android answer to the iPad. It ran the phone version of Android (2.2 Froyo) stretched to a...

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7. Nexus S - Gingerbread and the first NFC Android phone

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nexus-s

   The Samsung-made Nexus S launched on 16 December 2010 as the first phone with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and an NFC chip, years before contactless payments mattered. Its...

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8. Motorola Droid X - Verizon's big-screen Android, sold with a robot voice

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/droid-x

   Following the 2009 Motorola Droid that put Android on the map in the US, the Droid X arrived on Verizon in July 2010 with a 4.3-inch screen, an 8-megapixel camera and...

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9. Barnes & Noble Nook Color - A $249 colour reader that hackers turned into a tablet

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nook-color

   Released in November 2010, the Nook Color was a 7-inch LCD e-reader running a locked-down Android. Because it cost $249, tinkerers immediately rooted it into a cheap...

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10. Angry Birds - The 99-cent game that defined the smartphone era

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/angry-birds

    Released for iPhone in December 2009, Angry Birds became the best-selling paid app of 2010, arrived free on Android in October, and passed 50 million downloads across...

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11. Samsung Galaxy S - The start of the Galaxy dynasty

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/samsung-galaxy-s

    Samsung's first Galaxy S launched in June 2010 with a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen and a fast Hummingbird processor, sold in the US under four carrier names (Vibrant,...

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12. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 - The plugin that ran YouTube, FarmVille and every banner ad

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/flash-player-10-1

    Flash Player 10.1, released in June 2010, ran the YouTube player, Hulu, Pandora, FarmVille, every browser game and most animated adverts; Adobe said it was installed on...

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13. HTC Evo 4G - The first 4G phone in America, on Sprint's WiMAX

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/htc-evo-4g

    Released on 4 June 2010, the HTC Evo 4G was the first US phone sold as 4G, using Sprint's WiMAX network, which existed in only a few dozen cities. Its 4.3-inch screen...

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14. Twitter - 140 characters and the Fail Whale

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/twitter

    Twitter turned four in 2010 and became the internet's newswire. Users sent about 50 million tweets a day in February and roughly 90 million a day by September, the...

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15. Fruit Ninja - Swipe to slice, avoid the bombs

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/fruit-ninja

    Halfbrick's Fruit Ninja, released in April 2010, made the touchscreen itself the game: swipe to slice flying fruit, avoid bombs. It was one of the top-selling iPhone...

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16. Words with Friends - Scrabble by push notification

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/words-with-friends

    Words with Friends, from Newtoy, turned Scrabble into a slow, asynchronous game between phones, with dozens of matches running at once. It was huge on the iPhone in...

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17. Nokia N8 - A 12-megapixel camera and the last hope for Symbian

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nokia-n8

    The Nokia N8, released in October 2010, had the best camera on any phone, a 12-megapixel sensor with a Carl Zeiss lens and HDMI output. It ran Symbian^3, which reviewers...

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18. Palm Pre Plus and webOS - Cards, gestures and a company bought by HP

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/palm-pre-plus

    Palm's webOS phones, the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus, arrived on Verizon in January 2010 with card-based multitasking that iOS and Android later copied. Palm's sales were...

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19. Logitech Revue with Google TV - Google puts Chrome on your television

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/logitech-revue-google-tv

    Google TV launched in October 2010 on the $299 Logitech Revue set-top box and Sony televisions, promising web search and Chrome on the big screen with a full keyboard...

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20. Symbian - The world's most-used smartphone OS, and nobody in Silicon Valley cared

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/symbian

    Symbian, the operating system on Nokia's smartphones, still had the largest share of smartphone sales worldwide in 2010, about 37.6 percent according to Gartner, ahead...

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21. Doodle Jump - Tilt to jump, on graph paper

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/doodle-jump

    Doodle Jump, released in 2009 by two brothers, was among the most-downloaded paid iPhone games of 2010, with its hand-drawn Doodler bouncing up endless platforms using...

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