Android turns four, enthusiasm for dessert foods unabated

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There's nothing quite like having your birthday on a weekend. And while we're sure that Android was out late last night, dining on sweets with its fellow mobile operating systems, we'd like to wish Google's OS a very happy birthday. It was this day in 2008 that the Android team unveiled its 1.0 SDK, release 1 -- a milestone that [coincided](http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/t-mobiles-g1-gets-release-date-and-pricing/) with the announcement of [T-Mobile's G1](http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/t-mobile-g1-review/), which would get the new OS into consumer hands around a month or so later, finally delivering the promise of a long rumored "Googlephone." Android was a bit of a late bloomer, but now, toward the end of 2012 with 4.1 Jelly Bean beginning to bloom, it's hard to remember a time when it wasn't a dominate player in the ever more crowded mobile space. With that in mind, we're raising a glass to you, Android -- a glass of something sweet, naturally.

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