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Nostalgia: The Very First Android Phone (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sure, the very first iPhone released today, but does anyone remember the first Android smartphone?

In October of 1998 HTC’s T-Mobile G1, or HTC Dream as it’s known outside the U.S would launch being the first phone with the Android OS. The G1 was priced at $179 — which was pretty affordable even in those days — and featured top-of-the-line specs including a Qualcomm MSM7201A processor, 192MB of RAM, and 256MB of internal storage (expandable up to 16GB). It also stocked a 3.15MP rear camera, and a 1,150mAh battery.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think 1998 is correct, this was my first Android phone and I used it in 2008 (a decade later than OP) which is what the wiki also says:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Dream#History

First released in September 2008, the Dream was the first commercially released device to use the Linux-based Android operating system

Android itself didn't start development until 5 years later than OP:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#History

Android Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California, in October 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears, and Chris White.

I also found this cool category for phones that came out in 1998. They're all Nokias. This was even a year before BlackBerry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mobile_phones_introduced_in_1998