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Happy Birthday Google G1!
Four years ago today on October 22, 2008, the HTC Dream or Google G1 aka the first Android phone was released on T-Mobile in the U.S. Android itself was released as an open source OS nearly a month earlier on September 23, but the G1 gave users the first hands-on experience of the platform with an actual device. Since then there’s been half a billion Android devices activated, becoming the world leader as the mobile OS of choice for users worldwide. Just for comparison to show how far we’ve become since its debut, some of its specs included:
- Trackball
- Slider keyboard
- Android OS, v1.6 (Donut); first released with v1.0
- Qualcomm 528 MHz ARM 11 CPU
- Adreno 130 GPU
- GPS
- 3.15 MP Camera
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
- 192 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM
- No 3.5mm headset jack
- 3.2 inch 320×480 TFT touchscreen (180 PPI)
- Li-Ion 1150 mAh
- Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
My have things improved, haven’t they? Despite its outdated specs, devs just won’t let this device go. A semi-functioning port of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean functions on it. Anyway, here’s to you G1! Thanks for being the first among a long lineage of great devices.
Sources: GSM Arena and Phandroid
2012-10-23 01:28:02
Source: http://androidspin.com/2012/10/22/happy-birthday-google-g1/
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