Infographic: Five years of Android milestones

BY GreenBot Staff

Published 21 Oct 2013

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Android is so outrageously popular (over 1 billion device activations), it’s hard to belive it has only been five short years since the first Android-powered phone went on sale. Here’s a visual walk through the most important milestones in Android’s first half-decade, starting with the humble T-Mobile G1 (aka HTC Dream) slider phone with physical keyboard that started it all.