The World’s First Android Phone was also my first Android Smartphone
My first Android smartphone was the original ancestor, the progenitor of the Android race, HTC Dream AKA T-mobile G1. I purchased a second-hand unit in May 2009. Oh, I actually drove from Lagos to Ibadan to make the purchase too. I wanted to try out Android that much. The G1 had a sliding physical keyboard, was clunky, and was almost ugly. There was no built-in Documents viewer/editor in it, which was an issue for me then, as my smartphone was my primary business tool then. One of my gripes about the G1 was: “Battery life is frustrating! The G1 simply burns fuel like a race car.” Yes; it did. But I loved that baby. On my list of likes was this: “Touch, swipe, and tap, and with a responsiveness that’s rarely seen in touchscreen devices.” I also said back then that it was my firm belief that Android was on its way to giving Symbian a run for their money in terms of market share. Oh well, that is already history. Let’s look at some key specs of the HTC Dream. The first Android phone in the world was developed and built by HTC. It is also called the T-Mobile G1 because in the United States, it was available only on T-Mobile. Below are the key specs. You will find some of them middling by today’s standards.
Specs of HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1), the first Android phone
Display: 3.2 inches, 320 x 480 pixels, capacitive touchscreen.Operating System: Android v1Processor: Qualcomm MSM7201A ARM11 clocked at 528 MHz.RAM: 192 MBStorage: 256MB with microSD crad support for up to 16GB cards.Camera: 3.15 megapixelBattery: 1150mAhAnnounced: 23rd September 2008Released: 20th October 2008
The first Android phone in the world was not a hit like that. It arrived at a time that Symbian smartphones ruled the world, and BlackBerry smartphones were cool and hip. But Android OS has grown big since then and now dominates the smartphone world. Incidentally, the first Android phone in the world arrived the same year that MobilityArena was started – 2008. I had been blogging about mobile phones for 4 years before that though – on a different blog that no longer exists now.
10 things I liked about the T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream)
Here is the list of 10 things I liked about the G1.
8 things I did not like about the T-Mobile G1 aka HTC Dream
Following up on that is my list of gripes about the Android-powered T-Mobile G1: It is a nice thing that I got to experience the first iteration of Android OS and have followed its development all the way till now. I wish I still had the HTC Dream locked away in a drawer somewhere. That would be something. The world’s first Android phone might not have been a hit, but it kick-started this wave that has taken over the world of mobile.
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