When was g1 launched

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Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion. Nicole Lee. Click here for full coverage of Google Android. The G1's solution was a trackball, which would be a mainstay of Android devices for years to come. The G1 also distanced itself from the iPhone with a slide-out keyboard Android 1.

The G1 was far from the first phone to have a keyboard—that was actually quite common for Blackberrys and WinMo devices, but Android was more modern than those platforms.

The iPhone took a lot of heat for its touchscreen keyboard, and this was Google taking a stand for physical buttons. The G1 had a five row keyboard with well-spaced keys. It was much faster for entering text than the iPhone's early touchscreen version, although it didn't have a lot of travel. Some of the features we know and love from Android today existed at launch on the G1. For example, the aforementioned widgets. There weren't many of them pre-loaded on the G1, and developers couldn't make their own yet.

Still, you can recognize the same basic functionality a decade later. The G1 also had a notification shade. It looked a bit different than the shade of today, and the functionality was rudimentary, but it was worlds better than what you got on the iPhone.

The G1 didn't have a headphone jack, either. Talk about a vision of the future, right? In order to use your 3. The Android version on the G1 was called Cupcake, and at launch it came with the Donut update for Android 1. And yes, it indeed included a rear camera, a 3-megapixel sensor , which was okay-ish for that time. The said device had promised up to minutes talk time over 3G networks. It seems like a relic, but the G1 was a sign of things to come as Android took over the world.

It is by far the most popular OS in the world, outpacing Windows in the overall stakes.