4 years of the first Android-smartphone

September 23, 2008 at a joint presentation of smartphone maker HTC, Google's search engine and the mobile operator T-Mobile, was announced the world's first Android-smartphone T-Mobile G1, also known as the HTC Dream. This momentous event gathered at the time the cream of telecom journalism, because everyone knew that the show is the main competitor of Apple iPhone, which at that time began to rapidly capture the U.S. market. Now, HTC Dream and the public announcement of Android 1.0 last 4 years old.
 

Be honest - HTC Dream September 23 appeared before the public is not the first time, before it was shown at the conference for developers with taped logo, as a test sample. The history of this smartphone has begun before the Taiwanese company HTC has decided to bet on a partnership with Google - in times of Windows Mobile. It is under the control of the smartphone operating system had to be on the market, it was called then the HTC Omni. But Google urgently need a device that is not technically inferior to the iPhone, and in some ways even surpasses it. HTC could give such a device, radically different from the main competitor of the then popular in many QWERTY-keyboard and a trackball "like BlackBerry».Android 1.0 is the first public version of the open source operating system from Google, the company is to show it on a test smartphones and laid out the code from which collected enough "raw" for certain firmware then existing devices. (Your humble servant at the time established for Android Internet Tablet Nokia N800.)Android version up to 1.0 were quite different from what is shown on the presentation September 23, 2008, because it was originally created for smartphones a la "classic BlackBerry». Let's face it - at the time the functional Android was better than iOS (when she was not called), but the beauty and completeness of the interface was not even close. Fortunately, since the Honeycomb tablet version began to emerge a fresh new design that is refined and transferred to the smartphone.In such an important date like to wish the Android operating system of rapid development in the direction of improving the user interface, because the functionality of more than modern. A company HTC - further cooperation with Google and release the beautiful innovative products that can compete with offerings from other manufacturers.

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