Android is celebrating its fifteenth birthday in 2023. Having first launched in beta on 5 November 2007, Android 1.0 was released in 23 September 2008. The first Android device was announced simultaneously, posing a challenge to the then-incumbent smartphone king, Blackberry, and evolved feature-phone stalwart, Nokia.
The most important Android phones from the past 15 years of Android
They've come in all shapes and sizes, these are my pick of the defining Android phones of the last 15 years.
