For most people – not for nothing – the first smartphone is the iPhone, because there was no smartphone that was produced and sold on a large scale. Although trials were conducted in the 1990s, the market only started moving when the iPhone hit the market. However, about a year later, the real revolution in the smartphone world took place: Android.

The first Android phone was announced in September 2008 and went on sale on October 22. In addition to the iPhone, BlackBerry also blew into the market. By the way, the biggest reason for the iPhone wind was that the phone wasn’t sold exclusively to the AT&T operator.

After AT&T’s acquisition of the iPhone, US carrier T-Mobile also signed with HTC and released the first Android phone, the G1:

T-Mobile G1, manufactured by HTC, had a 3.2-inch 320×480 display. The device that uses Qualcomm’s MSM7201A chip on the processor side The RAM is 192 MB level.

The storage capacity of the phone was 256 MB. There was also a microSD slot on the device, which some phones today don’t have:

Android reached 2.7 billion users in 14 years:

Android proves its achievements with ultra-fast flagship devices such as the Samsung Galaxy Note9 and has also been made accessible to everyone under projects such as Android One.

The Android ecosystem, which started with the T-Mobile G1, has already become one of Google’s most successful projects. The Android world, which has become a real ‘ecosystem’ with different systems such as Chromebook, Chromecast and Wear OS, owes its current position to T-Mobile G1.