File 001 · Category Openers
Record 079 · Electronics · 2008
08.79.ET-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream) / Android 1.0
Google / HTC / T-Mobile
“Google's answer to iPhone — slide-out keyboard and all — that became the majority OS.”
The first Android phone.
Android 1.0 on HTC Dream. Messy, open, copyable. Within a decade Android was the world's default mobile OS by unit share.
Filed notes
- Open-source mobile stack
- Side-loading + OEM skins
- Google services as the real OS
SIC
3663
Radio & TV Communications Equipment
NAICS
334220
Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing
