- Google’s original Sooner Android prototype appeared on eBay, with someone selling a bunch of devices.
- This Android prototype predates the iPhone and looks just like the BlackBerry devices that were sold in stores at the time.
- Google immediately scraped the design and re-engineered Android to mimic the iPhone rather than BlackBerry, once Apple unveiled the original iPhone.
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One of the biggest battles in tech is iPhone vs. Android, with each side having raving fans ready to defend their favorite smartphone over any criticism. The truth is that it doesn’t really matter which smartphone you get these days. They’re all nearly the same, featuring various versions of “all-screen” designs, and offer fast access to the same sort of apps, games, and entertainment. And it’s all possible thanks to the increased competition between Apple and Google when it comes to the operating system, and between all smartphone vendors when it comes to hardware and design improvements. But there’s no denying that it’s the iPhone that started the smartphone revolution more than a decade ago and that Google was the first to realize what was happening and adapted Android to compete against the iPhone long before other rivals did. And the following images will show you exactly how Android phones looked like before iPhone saved them.
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What Android looked like before iPhone saved it originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 20 Mar 2020 at 07:31:25 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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