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T-Mobile G1 and Android Celebrate 5th Year Anniversary Today

Kellen September 23, 2013 108

Five years ago today, Google and T-Mobile took the stage at a press event in NYC to unveil the T-Mobile G1 (made by HTC) as the first device to run Android. As you all know now, Android is the number 1 mobile operating system in the game across the globe, and...

HTC G1 Never Says Die, CM10 Up and Running on the First Android Phone

Eric August 9, 2012 36

In the latest episode of "This phone has Jelly Bean before my phone?" we have the HTC G1, otherwise known as the HTC Dream. The first widely available Android device now has a (semi) working port of CyanogenMod 10 that has been shoehorned into the aging phone....

Android Has Come a Long Way Since 2007, a Young Sergey Brin Shows Us the New OS

Eric May 8, 2012 24

A lot of Google's secrets about Android have come to the light in their recent legal battle with Oracle over the use of Java patents. One of the more interesting nuggets that we have learned was the existence of the never released device called the Sooner....