{"id":507266,"date":"2022-11-06T18:24:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T15:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-first-android-phone-that-could-have-been-but-wasnt-review-geek\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:24:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T15:24:49","slug":"the-first-android-phone-that-could-have-been-but-wasnt-review-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-first-android-phone-that-could-have-been-but-wasnt-review-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"#The First Android Phone That Could Have Been But Wasn\u2019t \u2013 Review Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3732377f167\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3732377f167\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-first-android-phone-that-could-have-been-but-wasnt-review-geek\/#%E2%80%9CThe_First_Android_Phone_That_Could_Have_Been_But_Wasnt_%E2%80%93_Review_Geek%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;The First Android Phone That Could Have Been But Wasn\u2019t \u2013 Review Geek&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThe_First_Android_Phone_That_Could_Have_Been_But_Wasnt_%E2%80%93_Review_Geek%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;The First Android Phone That Could Have Been But Wasn\u2019t \u2013 Review Geek&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"article-content-area\">\n<figure style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage size-full wp-image-135395\" data-pagespeed-no-defer=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/p\/uploads\/2022\/11\/3120d59e.jpg?width=1200\" alt=\"A render of the Android Sooner phone that was cancelled by Android.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"type:primaryImage imagecredit\">Rich Miner \/ Android<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An odd set of circumstances involving <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>le, Meta, Google, and <em>Business Insider<\/em> led to the reveal of what could have been the first Android smartphone last week.<\/p>\n<p>The tale goes like this: <em>Business Insider<\/em> published a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/facebook-meta-mark-zuckerberg-google-apple-android-compare-2022-10\">think piece<\/a> by Samantha Delouya comparing Meta\u2019s launch of the Metaverse to Google\u2019s development of Android. The article draws the connection by speculating that Meta is cribbing Google\u2019s playbook to dethrone Apple as king of consumer data the same way Android overtook the iPhone as the top smartphone brand. But, according to Delouya, Meta gets it all wrong. And the launch of the Metaverse is a boondoggle that threatens to tear down the empire Mark Zukerberg has spent nearly two decades creating.<\/p>\n<p>The article drew the ire of Android co-founder Rich Miner, who took to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> to correct some factual inaccuracies. In a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/richminer\/status\/1587186278377865216\">Tweet thread<\/a>, he pointed out that Google did not create Android but was acquired by the company to combat Apple\u2019s control over the emerging market. As part of his debunking, he stated that Android was always working on two phones, Dream and Sooner. The Dream would become Google G1 (aka HTC Dream\/T-Mobile G1), and Sooner was canceled.<\/p>\n<p>Miner tweeted an image of a render of the scrapped Sooner smartphone. He stated that it was to be more Blackberry-like and was made months before Apple launched the iPhone, countering a claim in the <em>Insider<\/em> article that the original Android phone was redesigned to compete with the iPhone.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All along we were working on 2 phones, Sooner, more blackberry-like &amp; Dream, touchscreen based. After the iPhone launch we did cancel Sooner to focus on Dream (eventually the Google G1) but its design changed little from this rendering made 5 months before the iPhone launched. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lC8m0WolgE\">pic.twitter.com\/lC8m0WolgE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rich Miner (@richminer) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/richminer\/status\/1587186283570499588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The would-be first Android featured a sliding touchscreen over a physical, green QWERTY keyboard, four buttons on the chassis, and a jog wheel.<\/p>\n<p>What the smartphone world would look like today if the Sooner had come to life instead of the Dream is impossible to know. However, it\u2019s an interesting bit of tech lore that we didn\u2019t know before. And the way the revelation came about is also fascinating to those of us who love both history and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><small>Sources: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/facebook-meta-mark-zuckerberg-google-apple-android-compare-2022-10\"><em>Business Insider<\/em><\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/first-android-phone-google-g1-3229553\/\"><em>Android Authority<\/em><\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script>\nsetTimeout(function(){\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '1137093656460433');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  },3000);\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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