HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1), the first Android phone
HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1), primer móvil con Android
- Date
- 2008 · confidence high
- Place
- Xindian, New Taipei, Taiwan
- Credited to
- HTC and Google
- Field
- Communication
What it is
The first commercial phone with the Android system, with a touchscreen, slide-out keyboard and app store, made by Taiwan's HTC and sold by T-Mobile in October 2008. It showed that Android could compete with the iPhone.
HTC built the phone for T-Mobile (G1) in 2008; HTC was founded in Taoyuan in 1997 and moved its headquarters to Xindian. The coordinates are those of the company headquarters.
What it led to
- the Android phone ecosystem
- Google Play (Android Market) as an app store
- the rise of Asian phone makers