Google had in 2007 a deal with LG to be the first Android smartphone to make. That reports The Wall Street Journal. Only when the Korean manufacturer decided to take the deal to blow up, came to HTC in the picture to the first Android phone to make.
The contract was in mid-2007 by LG cancelled, reports The Wall Street Journal casually in a profile of Android founder Andy Rubin. There is not mentioned why LG, the deal afblies. The deal dates from the time that the first iPhone and the Nokia N95 came out. After the Korean manufacturer had withdrawn, decided to Google in the sea to go with HTC. The first Android phone came over a year later in the United States: the T-Mobile G1, which in other countries is also sold as the HTC Dream.
LG decided first to make a deal with Microsoft to close Windows Mobile phones, but had now also joined the Open Handset Alliance, the group of companies that would deal with Android. The first Android phone from LG finally came out in January 2010, fourteen months after the G1. The LG Eve GW620 seemed in many ways to the G1.
Android is now the market-leading mobile operating system. It is estimated that worldwide approximately half of all sold smartphones on Google’s mobile OS. HTC saw its sales and profits thanks to Android, the past few years, considerably increase.
