Seven years ago the first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1, officially announced. It was the first smartphone with Google’s operating system and also therefore has a special place in our hearts.
A lot has changed
If we today day back on the T-Mobile G1 (launched in some markets as the HTC Dream), then it becomes clear how and Android smartphones have evolved over the past seven years. Google’s operating system is much more functional and more beautiful became and nowadays – after the BlackBerry Priv – barely more phones with a physical keyboard that slides out
That said, the QWERTY keyboard of the G1 quite okay. It has small buttons, but the mutual distance is large enough to be able to type pleasing. You do not need the keyboard, you slide it with a smart and solid mechanism back into the unit. Incidentally, there is a good reason that the G1 has a keyboard: at first it was Android does not provide a virtual keyboard
Despite its tiny 3.2 inch. <- - /> Mfunc!> screen (with a pixel density of 180 ppi) is the T-Mobile G1 or a substantial extension. It is less than 17 millimeters thick and weighs 158 grams; today only have phablets such weight. Also notable are the many physical buttons and the trackpad located on the “chin” of the smartphone. With the soft keys of Android and the large displays of today you have so many buttons no longer necessary, but at the time they were quite handy while browsing the Web and navigate through the interface.
The early days of Android
If we look at the software of the T-Mobile G1, it is striking how basic Android was in the early years. It was unveiled with Android 1.1 which was in English, but did contain most Google apps like Gmail, Maps and the Android Market (later Google Play). Pretty standard features such as multitouch, virtual keyboard, cut and paste, screenshots and create folders and advanced multitasking were introduced in later versions. Android also could not initially handle Microsoft Exchange and Adobe Flash. The G1 was eventually update to Android 1.6, with which the aircraft was slightly faster and had more possibilities for the camera and gallery.
Just like the iPhone was the T-Mobile G1 is one of the first smartphones that nice about the web surfing could be mainly due to the built-in browser and 3G support. Perhaps even more revolutionary was the ability to download apps (including third parties) and install. In the beginning it was offering in the Android Market narrower than that of the App Store, but that has changed came in over the years. Meanwhile, Google’s app store even more applications (1.6 vs. 1.5 million), which are searchable better and of higher quality than before.
Innovations
In the area of Screen quality and capabilities were the T-Mobile G1 inferior to the iPhone, although there were also plenty of areas in which the Apple device rivaled. So the interface was adaptable, you could use the handy notifications and saw you in downloading apps to the permissions requested. There was also already at this early stage a deep integration of Google services. No longer was it problematic to synchronize your email, contacts and calendar events on your smartphone.
T-Mobile G1 was the first person the enormous potential of Android
And we reap the fruits of the day today. The T-Mobile G1 was by no means a perfect device, but the first that showed the enormous potential of Android. It is an iconic device, a kind grandmother of all Androids, which has served as a model for many devices that have appeared afterward.
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