{"id":542316,"date":"2026-03-24T12:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/542316\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:38:18","slug":"celebrate-with-the-moments-that-changed-tech-forever-in-that-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/542316\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate with the moments that changed tech forever in that time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy birthday to us! Android Police turns 16 today. We were founded the year that Google introduced its first phone, the Google Nexus, and we\u2019ve been here ever since to bring you the latest news, authoritative reviews, reliable guides, expert opinions, and hot takes across mobile technology.<\/p>\n

In that time, we\u2019ve covered phones, wearables, tablets, audio, and everything smart home. So we had a hard time narrowing down some of our favorite stories over the past decade and a half plus. But we\u2019ve done our best to bring you some highlights and we look forward to continuing to be your source for all things Android (and beyond) far into the future.<\/p>\n

2010<\/p>\n

The year we started is the year Android started to take over the world. Android became the fastest growing OS, up 22%, from 2% to 24%, from 2009 to 2010. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tAndroid Usage Skyrockets Across The Board In February 2010 – Apple, RIM, Palm, Nokia Fall
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2011<\/p>\n

In 2010 Steve Jobs declared \u201cthermonuclear war\u201d against Android and in one battle sued HTC. Our former Editor-in-Chief David Ruddock said it wasn\u2019t that important or scary and, as time has told, he was right. Though HTC did eventually fall to one of Android\u2019s own, Samsung. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tWhy Apple’s Patent Victories Over HTC Aren’t All That Important Or Scary
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2012<\/p>\n

Though it started the year before and did not wrap up until an out-of-court settlement in 2018, 2012 was the height of Apple v. Samsung. We broke down the whole trial.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tA Complete Overview Of The Apple v. Samsung Trial: Things Aren’t Looking Great For Android’s Biggest Manufacturer
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With Samsung and Apple’s California trial scheduled for Monday, more and more information is being unearthed about the parties’ respective claims. Yesterday,<\/p>\n

2013<\/p>\n

He\u2019s a household name now, but back in 2013 Marques Brownlee was just gaining traction in tech. That\u2019s when he shared his thoughts on the Samsung Galaxy Note 3<\/a> with our readers. <\/p>\n

2014 <\/p>\n

Material Design emerged with Android 5.0, aka Lollipop. It made Android look more like digital paper and it\u2019s still with us today. We took a look back at its impact just last year.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t5 ways Android 5.0 Lollipop changed mobile UI forever
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Android 5.0 made our phones more delightful<\/p>\n

2015<\/p>\n

The first major threat to Android users, Stagefright, popped up in 2015. It was an exploit that only took a text message to execute. The fallout resulted in the monthly Android updates that we\u2019re all familiar with today. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tVast Majority Of Android Devices Are Vulnerable To ‘Stagefright’ Exploit That Can Be Executed Via Text Message, According To Researchers
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2016 <\/p>\n

Good-bye, Nexus<\/a>. Hello, Pixel. Google got a new flagship phone in 2016. A few years ago we looked back at the birth of the Pixel.<\/p>\n

2018<\/p>\n

In 2018, the Pixel 3 XL fell off a truck, as the euphemism goes, and a Russian tech blog was all over the story.<\/p>\n

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2019<\/p>\n

Getting foldables right is hard and, to be honest, is still a work in progress. But they\u2019ve come a long way since the introduction of the Samsung Galaxy Fold in 2019.<\/p>\n

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2020<\/p>\n

The pandemic stopped the world and protests gripped the nation. We don\u2019t have to remind you about 2020. All in-person shows stopped, including Google I\/O, and Google even pushed back Android 11\u2019s release.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tGoogle cancels Android 11 Beta launch event, citing protests around US
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There’s no sign as to when it will be rescheduled, understandably<\/p>\n

2021<\/p>\n

LG exited the smartphone world in 2021, but that hasn\u2019t stopped us from thinking about it since<\/a>. Including measuring our time with some of our favorite phones.<\/p>\n

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Meet (almost) all of my exes<\/p>\n

2022<\/p>\n

The Pixel phone needed a companion and in 2022, we got the Pixel Watch. Of course, we got our hands on it immediately.<\/p>\n

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Google’s first hardware Wear OS product is finally here, eight years after Android Wear’s inception<\/p>\n

2023<\/p>\n

This was the year that Google promised seven years of OS, security, and Feature Drop updates for its phones. While it did away with some concerns about planned obsolescence, at the time we called it a boring, though important, update<\/a>. Then just this year, we wondered how much the pledge is worth if a battery cannot last that long.<\/p>\n

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Don’t trust the 7-year update promise until you read this<\/p>\n

2024<\/p>\n

Everything became AI in 2024. For Google, that meant a Gemini takeover.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tGoogle’s 5 biggest AI moves in 2024
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In 2024, Google made major moves with AI<\/p>\n

2025<\/p>\n

Testing the limits of folding, Huawei and Samsung introduced trifold phones in 2025. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tSamsung poised to launch a tri-folding device in 2025, and it could cost more than the Mate XT
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Good luck getting your hands on it<\/p>\n

2026<\/p>\n

Who knows what the future holds, but we do know that things change quickly. One of the biggest stories in this so far short year has been that the Samsung\u2019s trifold phone is gone, but another is set to take its place next year. <\/p>\n

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Plus, the MWC prototype could end up becoming a real product<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Happy birthday to us! Android Police turns 16 today. We were founded the year that Google introduced its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-542316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}