The first Android’s phone was launched there is 10 years ago
There is ten years ago, (23th September 2008), I was a child ;) but also, it was the first Android’s phone, the HTC Dream who was put in sale !!!=)
Personally, I didn’t really know it, but this smartphone was the era of a new digital revolution for Google who bought this startup in 2005 !
Let’s go back in the past. So, I told you, the first Android phone was born ! Which ran on Android 1.5 Cupcake, and upgraded to Android 1.6 Donut — didn’t have touchscreen support, nor a 3.5mm headphones jack. There was no Google Play Store at the time either. The phone came preloaded with Google search, Gmail and Google Maps app.
What is its configuration ?
The HTC Dream’s 3.2-inch TFT screen had a resolution of 320x480 pixels only. It had 192 MB RAM and 256 MB storage space, and an optional microSD slot expanded the storage by up to 8 GB (a 1 GB microSD card came with the phone). It had just a measly 3-MP camera with autofocus for still pictures.
While you may laugh at the humble beginnings of Android over a decade ago, you have to wonder at how quickly the Android ecosystem has grown from strength to strength. Where Apple had a closed iOS platform only available on the iPhone, iPod and iPad, Google democratized Android by encouraging device makers into tweaking Android according to their product needs.
And the result is for all of us to see. Android is now the most used consumer operating system in the world, ahead of even Microsoft Windows since March 2017 and the journey is only 10 years old compared to Windows who exists since 1985 !!!
