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Google to block sign-ins for Android 2.3 and lower

Google’s Android operating system has changed quite a bit since the first Android-powered phones began shipping in 2008. And maintaining support for old versions of Android gets increasingly difficult over time. So it’s unsurprising that a few years ago Google announced it would be largely ending support for devices running Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread or lower […]

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Google is pretty much abandoning Android 2.3 Gingerbread in 2017

It’s been six years since Google released Android 2.3 Gingerbread, but there are still some devices running the aging operating system rather than a newer build. According to Google’s stats for devices that connected to the Play Store, about 1.3 percent of Android devices are still running Gingerbread. But many Android apps require newer versions of […]

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Sprint to offer Gingerbread for the 7 inch Galaxy Tab next week?

Sure, all the cool kids in the Android tablet space are running Honeycomb these days… but it looks like Samsung hasn’t forgotten about the humble 7 inch Galaxy Tab released way back in 2010. The tablet currently runs Google Android 2.2 Froyo, but the folks at SprintFeed obtained a leaked document which suggests that an […]

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Google Android 3.1 comes to the Dell Streak 7 (unofficially)

The Dell Streak 7 features a dual core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, just like pretty much every tablet shipping with Google Android 3.x Honeycomb. But the Streak 7 comes with Android 2.2 which is looking a bit dated. Last month we saw that a hacker had figured out how to install custom ROMs with Android […]

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Google unveils Android 2.3 Gingerbread, Nexus S smartphone

Google has released the Software Developer Kit for Android 2.3. The company is also introducing the Google Nexus S smartphone which will be one of the first to run the updated operating system. It will be available for purchase online or at retailers including Best Buy and Carphone Warehouse starting December 16th in the US […]

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Tablets sporting Google Android 3.0 Gingerbread to arrive in January?

Apple might not have shipped quite as many iPads this quarter as some analysts had expected, but with over 4 million units shipped, the product launch was clearly a success. It’s not really clear yet whether this proves that world is ready for more tablets… or just that an Apple tablet has proved to be […]

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LG puts Android tablet plans on hold, waits for Gingerbread

Google has already said that it doesn’t consider Android 2.x to be an operating system suitable for tablets. While Samsung, Dell, Toshiba, and a number of other device makers seem to disagree, LG seems to be on the same page as Google. The company had been planning to launch a tablet using Android 2.2, but […]