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1: Éclair
The most revolutionary aspect of the release was the inclusion of voice-guided turn-by-turn
navigation and real-time traffic information, which were previously unheard of (and are still
essentially unmatched) in the smartphone industry. Aside from navigation, Eclair gave
Android live wallpapers and its first speech-to-text feature. Additionally, it made headlines
for bringing the formerly iOS-only pinch-to-zoom feature to Android, which is frequently cited
as the event that started Apple's protracted "thermonuclear war" against Google.