Remember the good old days when you knew what version of Android your phone was running by its dessert name? For example, the first phone to be powered by Eclair (Android 2.0) was the Motorola DROID.

Hundreds of millions of Android phones still in daily use can no longer receive security patches, leaving their owners exposed to known software flaws that device makers and Google have stopped fixing.

This is the first Android OEM after Google to roll out stable Android 17, but the update ships without any new Android 17 features.

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We’re likely just a couple of weeks away from the launch of Android 15, at least if we’re assuming new Pixels run on it, and as such, we wanted to take a quick look at how the distribution numbers stand in 2024. According to the latest available data ...