What's your earliest Android OS?

[sethyboy]

4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich, on an awful single-core Chinese tablet that froze up all the time and would be unusable today. It did get an update to 4.1.1 Jelly Bean, though, which ultimately didn't help things.

Quite honestly, I can deal with slight lag on my tablet or one of my phones, because I had to use that awful Chinese thing for almost a year, seeing the "app isn't responding" message literally every day, and it made me completely grateful for what I have now. I'm just glad I didn't give up on Android after that.

My first OS version on a phone was 4.1.2 on a Galaxy S3. Now I'm currently using a Moto G4 Play with 7.1.1. It amazes me to see how far the OS has come in such a short period of time. I remember how dramatic of a shift Lollipop was, and now Pie (even though I haven't used it yet) looks to be shaking things up once again. It's so interesting to look back on.

 

[w8wca]

Asus Transformer running KatKiss (KitKat)

 

[tube517]

EVO 4G running Froyo. When we got Gingerbread the android forums blew up lol

 

[BerryBubbles]

Asus Transformer TF700T running Ice Crean Sandwich. I never updated it because people were originally not very happy with Jelly Bean. I bought the optional keyboard which had an internal battery that would charge the tablet when it's battery drained. I just disposed of it recently but up until then, I was still using it to play old games. (I just have too many devices, something had to go.)​

 

[Sizzers]

I'd used Symbian for many, many years (which I absolutely LOVED) before finally having to switch to Android, trying a 1st gen Moto G running Jelly Bean.

Since then I've missed out on three: Marshmallow, Nougat and Android 12.

 

[edubfromktown]

Nexus 6 (Android 5.0 Lollipop) back when WiFi calling was first integrated into the core of Android.

It was a bit too spartan (and some of the apps lacked stability/consistency/UI "polish" compared to iOS) so I switched back to iPhone. Last of those was 8 Plus... pre-ordered and switched to Pixel 4a and have been using Android ever since ("pure" Android, then OxygenOS and now OneUI).

 

[SeeBeeEss]

My earliest Android OS was one of the Froyos (can't recall which one) on a Motorola Atrix. Or was it Gingerbread?

 

[gendo667]

The LG Optimus G. Launched with 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. Big ugly skin on top and before I knew anything about Android or third party launchers.

Edit: hey, I'm in here twice!

 

[rvbfan]

1.5 with I want to say a Samsung Galaxy lite. But I'm not 100% sure about that. There weren't many of us Android uses around in those days.

 

[joeldf]

This is similar to another thread about earliest Android devices, so I'm going to post a modified version of what I posted in that thread last May.

I actually don't recall which came first in my household. Either the Samsung Galaxy S II for my oldest son, or the 1st gen Amazon Kindle Fire tablet for my wife.

Both came out late 2011, but by the time we got them it was early 2012.

The S II launched with Android 2.3, but I don't remember if it updated to anything newer.

The Fire tablet ran Fire OS 2 which was based on Android 2.3.3.

So, Gingerbread was my first Android experience.