+101 - Vote for the best Android Apps

Ten years ago this week, the first Android phone was announced - the T-Mobile G1. No one could have predicted the massive success that Android would eventually become; the OS now has over two billion active users worldwide.

In honor of Android's 10th birthday, we're taking a look at the most important and influential Google-powered phones of the past decade. Every one of these devices redefined Android in some way, by pushing the OS further into the mainstream, introducing design trends, or signaling the start/end of an era.

10 years of Android phones: The ten most important handsets of the last decade was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

When the OnePlus One debuted back in 2014, it was sold as an enthusiast phone with insane bang for the buck. Fast forward four years, and Android 8.1 Oreo in the form of LineageOS 15.1 has just been released for it. The OPPO Find 7a and Find 7s and Galaxy S5 Plus/LTE-A are getting 15.1 as well, and the Huawei Ascend Mate 2 4G has returned with LOS 14.1.

Here are all of the links you'll need:

• OnePlus One (bacon)
• OPPO Find 7a/7s (find7)
• Samsung Galaxy S5 LTE-A (lentislte)
• Samsung Galaxy S5 Plus (kccat6)
• Huawei Ascend Mate 2 (mt2)

The OnePlus One may no longer be officially supported by OnePlus, but it's now receiving Android 8.1 Oreo via LineageOS 15.1.

LineageOS 15.1 (Android 8.1 Oreo) now available for OnePlus One, OPPO Find 7a/7s, and Galaxy S5 Plus/LTE-A was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

After three years of official support, Google confirmed yesterday that the long-lived Nexus Player would no longer receive Android updates. While Android Oreo will continue to serve most users just fine, the custom ROM community will likely keep it updated for years to come. LineageOS already supported the set-top box with Nougat builds, but now it has been updated to Android 8.1 Oreo.

LineageOS 15.1 builds for the Nexus Player (fugu) are available here.

LineageOS 15.1 Oreo arrives on the Nexus Player, two more devices get 14.1 was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

• Update 1: 2017/11/14 10:22am PST
  NowSecure, a mobile security company that helped the developer find the password, has published a more detailed writeup about the backdoor. The post reveals that the poorly-hidden password was
• Update 2: 2017/11/14 1:48pm PST
  OnePlus has posted an official statement about the EngineerMode app: "Yesterday, we received a lot of questions regarding an apk found in several devices, including our own, named EngineerMode, and
• Update 3: 2017/11/15 2:29pm PST
  The saga continues, as Qualcomm has now released a statement about the EngineerMode APK: "After an in-depth investigation, we have determined that the EngineerMode app in question was not authored by 

Just a month ago, OnePlus was caught collecting personally identifiable data from phone owners through incredibly detailed analytics.

[Update x3: Qualcomm responds] OnePlus left a backdoor in its devices capable of root access was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

• Update 1: 2017/11/14 10:22am PST
  NowSecure, a mobile security company that helped the developer find the password, has published a more detailed writeup about the backdoor. The post reveals that the poorly-hidden password was
• Update 2: 2017/11/14 1:48pm PST
  OnePlus has posted an official statement about the EngineerMode app: "Yesterday, we received a lot of questions regarding an apk found in several devices, including our own, named EngineerMode, and

Just a month ago, OnePlus was caught collecting personally identifiable data from phone owners through incredibly detailed analytics.

[Update x2: OnePlus responds] OnePlus left a backdoor in its devices capable of root access was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

Just a month ago, OnePlus was caught collecting personally identifiable data from phone owners through incredibly detailed analytics. While the company eventually reversed course on the data collection, another discovery has been made in the software of OnePlus phones. One developer found an application intended for factory testing, and through some investigation and reverse-engineering, was able to obtain root access using it.

The application in question is called 'EngineerMode,' which is intended to be used in factories to confirm that the device is working properly.

OnePlus left a backdoor in its devices capable of root access was written by the awesome team at Android Police.