ANDROID 1.0

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RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES 2008

Oh, look – a proper smartphone OS. Not like the rubbish system iPhone users have.

Well, arguments still rage about what impact the iPhone had on Android. We know it began as a camera OS, before pivoting to phones and being swallowed up by Google. There’s evidence to suggest early iterations were BlackBerry-flavoured… but Android fans claim it was always designed for multiple input types, and Google long had versions running on keyboard phones as well as touchscreen devices. Which might be why the first Android blower tried to give us both.