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The first serious Android tablet
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 larger screen, could make...
Google's own Android phone, sold online
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 months. With Android 2.1, a 1...
The Nexus One with Sense, and Europe's Android favourite
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 best-selling Android phones of...
Gingerbread and the first NFC Android phone
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 curved "Contour Display" and...
Verizon's big-screen Android, sold with a robot voice
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 HDMI output. Verizon's "Droid...
A $249 colour reader that hackers turned into a tablet
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 Android tablet, and Barnes &...
The start of the Galaxy dynasty
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, Captivate, Epic 4G and Fascinate)....
The first 4G phone in America, on Sprint's WiMAX
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 was enormous for the time, it...
A touchscreen slider running BlackBerry 6
Launched in August 2010 on AT&T, the Torch combined a slide-out keyboard with a touchscreen and the new BlackBerry 6 operating system with a WebKit browser. It was RIM's answer to the iPhone at a...
A 12-megapixel camera and the last hope for Symbian
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 found dated next to iOS and...
Cards, gestures and a company bought by HP
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 weak, and HP announced it was...
Google puts Chrome on your television
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 remote. The networks blocked it...
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