Samsung patches 0-click vulnerability impacting all smartphones sold since 2014. And even though Apple sold millions of iPhones in the first year, it wasn't until Android debuted in 2008 that smartphones really went mainstream. Of course at such a low asking price the Moto E does have compromises. As 2019 comes to a close, we take our leave of the 2010s and enter into the 2020s. Mostly ups because, honestly speaking, there hasn't been any solid competitor in the game. At the end of 2013, over 1.5 billion Android smartphones have been sold in the four years since 2010, making Android the most sold phone and tablet OS. Most of the time, this information is not very newsworthy because the numbers come in tiers like 100,000 –500,000, but Pixel Launcher has just crossed into the 1,000,000 – 5,000,000 tier. Therefore, the number of times that the Pixel Launcher has been installed indicates the number of Pixel phones that have been sold and activated. “Huawei will continue to provide security updates and after sales services to all existing Huawei and Honor smartphone and tablet products covering those have been sold or … “Huawei will continue to provide after-sales services to all existing Huawei and Honor smartphone and tablet products, covering those that have been sold and that are still in stock globally. Android has had its share of ups and downs. Samsung patched this month a critical bug discovered by Google security researchers. If you’ve been following Android news this past week then you’ve probably read about Google’s boast that over 70 million Android devices have been activated and that half of tablets sold this year ran Android.. Three billion Android smartphones are estimated to be sold by the end of 2014 (including previous years). There’s no 4G, just HSDPA-certified 3G, 802.11n 2.4GHz WiFi (5GHz is … One million G1s were sold in the first six months, and almost the same number may have been sold in the period since, said Carl Howe, an analyst with the Yankee Group.