In Pictures: A retrospective of Google’s Android mobile platform

Our look back on the Google smartphone and tablet platform’s progress from experiment to market leader.

Ice Cream Sandwich

Version 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich, was released in October 2011, and represented one of the biggest overhauls of Android since its inception. It radically re-worked the interface and added new features like native 1080p video recording, Android Beam, and Face Unlock technology.

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