Going into this series, I hoped I’d get back to the T-Mobile G1/HTC Dream and be able to romantically wax about where Android came from. How the G1, though dated, still held up the promises made by Google`s first Android effort back in 2008. Analytically, it`s all true, but time has not been kind to the phone, and using it has made for a pretty rough week, even by my recent standards.
Like the last three phones on this trip, I also assumed I`d have a fresh set of anecdotes from the experience to share, so that I could tell you all the ways its peculiarities, shortcomings, or strengths impacted my life in a way that was entertaining and informative. Read MoreUsing the HTC G1, 10 years later: 2008`s smartphone is effectively a dumbphone in 2018 was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
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