T-Mobile G1: The first Android phone

T-Mobile G1: The first Android phone
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The T-Mobile G1, built by HTC, was the first Android phone. It's slow by modern Android phone standards. In 2008, when it arrived, the Android Market was almost devoid of applications, but now it's improved. So far at least, the G1 isn't available to ordinary folks with the latest version 2.1 of Google's Android operating system.

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May 18, 2010 4:00 AM PDT

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