Android 6 | Marshmallow |
- USB Type-C support
- Fingerprint Authentication support
- Better battery life with "deep sleep"
- Permissions dashboard
- Android Pay
- MIDI support
- Google Now improvements
| 2015-10-05 |
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Android 5.1.1 | Lollipop |
- Speed improvement
- Bug fixes
| 2015-04-21 |
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Android 5.1 | Lollipop |
- Multiple SIM cards support
- Quick settings shortcuts to join Wi-Fi networks or control
Bluetooth devices
- Lock protection if lost or stolen
- High Definition voice call
- Stability and performance enhancements
| 2015-03-09 |
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Android 5.0.2 | Lollipop |
- Performance improvements and bug fixes
| 2014-12-19 |
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Android 5.0.1 | Lollipop |
- bug fixes, fix issues with video playback and password
failures
| 2014-12-02 |
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Android 5.0 | Lollipop |
- New design (Material design)
- Speed improvement
- Battery consumption improvement
| 2014-10-17 |
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Android 4.4.4 | KitKat |
- Fix Heartbleed / OpenSSL vulnerability
| 2014-06-23 |
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Android 4.4.3 | KitKat |
- Bug fixes
- Enable Sprint Spark band 26 and band 41
| 2014-04-14 |
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Android 4.4.2 | KitKat |
- Bug fixes
- Security enhancements
| 2013-12-09 |
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Android 4.4.1 | KitKat |
- Bug fixes
- Enhance the camera on the Nexus 5
| 2013-12-05 |
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Android 4.4 | KitKat |
- Screen recording
- New Translucent system UI
- Enhanced notification access
- System-wide settings for closed captioning
- Performance improvements
| 2013-10-31 |
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Android 4.3 | Jelly Bean |
- Dial pad auto-complete
- Photo Sphere enhancements
- Camera app UI updated
- 4K resolution support
- Ability to create restricted profiles for tablets
- Hebrew and Arabic right-to-left (RTL) support
- Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) support
- Bluetooth Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) 1.3
support
- Security and performance enhancements
| 2013-07-24 |
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Android 4.2.2 | Jelly Bean |
- Allow toggling Wi-Fi and Bluetooth state in Quick Settings
using long-press
- Shows the percentage and estimated time remaining in the active
download notifications
- Wireless charging and low battery sounds changed
- Gallery app updated for faster loading with new image
transition
- Performance enhancements and bug fixes (Bluetooth A2DP audio
streaming fix...)
| 2013-02-11 |
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Android 4.2.1 | Jelly Bean |
- Fix missing december bug in the People app
- Add support for Bluetooth gamepads and joysticks HID
devices
| 2012-11-27 |
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Android 4.2 | Jelly Bean |
- Lockscreen widgets
- 360 degree images with Photo Sphere
- Gesture Typing, for faster typing
- Wireless display with Miracast
- Daydream to display information when idle or docked
- Multi-user for tablets
| 2012-11-13 |
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Android 4.1.2 | Jelly Bean |
- Enable Home screen rotation
- Fix bugs and enhance performances
| 2012-10-09 |
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Android 4.1.1 | Jelly Bean |
- Fix a bug on screen orientation
| 2012-07-23 |
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Android 4.1 | Jelly Bean |
- Google Now ( youtu.be/... )
- Voice Search
- Speed enhancements
- Camera app improvements
- Accessibility: gesture mode, enable braille external
keyboards...
| 2012-07-09 |
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Android 4.0.4 | Ice Cream Sandwich |
- stability improvements
- better camera performance
- smoother screen rotation
| 2012-03-28 |
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Android 3.2.6 | Honeycomb | Minor fixes | 2012-02-15 |
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Android 4.0.3 | Ice Cream Sandwich |
- Social stream API in Contacts provider to show updates
associated to your contacts
- Video stabilization and QVGA video resolution API access
- Accessibility API refinements for screen readers
- Calendar provider updates
| 2011-12-16 |
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Android 3.2.4 | Honeycomb | Added "Pay as you go" for tablets | 2011-12-15 |
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Android 4.0.2 | Ice Cream Sandwich | Minor fixes | 2011-11-28 |
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Android 4.0.1 | Ice Cream Sandwich |
- Facial recognition (Face Unlock)
- UI use Hardware acceleration
- Better voice recognition (dictating/Voice typing)
- Web browser, allows up to 16 tabs
- Updated launcher (customizable)
- Android Beam app to exchange data through NFC
| 2011-10-19 |
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Android 4.0 | Ice Cream Sandwich |
- New lock screen actions
- Improved text input and spell-checking
- Control over network data
- Email app supports EAS v14
- WI-FI direct
- BlueTooth Health Device Profile
- ADB Backups
| 2011-10-18 |
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Android 3.2.2 | Honeycomb | Minor fixes | 2011-09-30 |
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Android 2.3.7 | Gingerbread |
- Google Wallet support for the Nexus S 4G
| 2011-09-21 |
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Android 3.2.1 | Honeycomb |
- Android Market updates including easier automatic updates
- Google Books updates
- Wi-Fi improvements
- Chinese handwriting prediction improved
| 2011-09-20 |
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Android 2.3.6 | Gingerbread | | 2011-09-02 |
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Android 2.3.5 | Gingerbread |
- Improved network performance for the Nexus S 4G
- Fixed Bluetooth issues on the Samsung Galaxy S
- Gmail app. improvements
| 2011-07-25 |
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Android 3.2 | Honeycomb |
- Optimizations for a wider range of tablets
- Compatibility display mode (zoom for fixed-sized apps)
- Media sync from SD card
| 2011-07-15 |
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Android 2.3.4 | Gingerbread |
- Voice or video chat using Google Talk
| 2011-05-10 |
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Android 3.1 | Honeycomb |
- UI improvements
- Open Accessory API
- USB host API
- Mice, joysticks, gamepads... support
- Resizable Home screen widgets
- MTP
notifications
- RTP API
for audio
| 2011-05-10 |
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Android 3.0 | Honeycomb |
- Multi core support
- Better tablet support
- Updated 3D UI
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- customizable homescreens
- recent applications viewing
- redone keyboard layout
- Media/Picture transport protocol
- Google Talk video chat
- Google eBooks
- "Private browsing"
- System-wide Clipboard
- HTTP Live streaming
| 2011-02-22 |
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Android 2.3.3 | Gingerbread | | 2011-02-09 |
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Android 2.3 | Gingerbread |
- Updated UI
- Improved keyboard ease of use
- Improved copy/paste
- Improved power management
- Social networking features
- Near Field Communication support
- Native VoIP/SIP support
- Video call support
| 2010-12-06 |
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Android 2.2 | Froyo |
- Speed improvements
- JIT implementation
- USB Tethering
- Applications installation to the expandable memory
- Upload file support in the browser
- Animated GIFs
| 2010-05-20 |
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Android 2.1 | Eclair | | 2010-01-12 |
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Android 2.0.1 | Eclair | | 2009-12-03 |
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Android 2.0 | Eclair |
- HTML
- Digital zoom
- Microsoft Exchange support
- Bluetooth 2.1
- Live Wallpapers
- Updated UI
| 2009-10-26 |
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Android 1.6 | Donut |
- Gesture framework
- Turn-by-turn navigation
| 2009-09-15 |
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Android 1.5 | Cupcake |
- Bluetooth A2DP, AVRCP support
- Soft-keyboard with text-prediction
- Record/watch videos
| 2009-04-30 |
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Android 1.1 | Banana bread |
- "Show" & "Hide" numeric keyboard, in caller
application
- Ability to save MMS attachments
| 2009-02-09 |
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Android 1.0 | Apple pie |
- Public Release of Android
- Download and updates via Android Market
- Web Browser
- Camera support
- Gmail, Contacts and Google Agenda synchronization
- Google Maps
- YouTube application
| 2008-09-23 |
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Android 0.9 | Beta | It is the first version to use Android 1.0's UI. It also adds many
of the sounds and ringtones found in 1.0, albeit mostly in stereo
as opposed to mono. | 2008-08-22 |
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