Before the iPhone, This Was the First Android Google Was Preparing (PICTURES)   

And finally it changed radically

Within the last twenty-four hours, Rich Miner, co-founder of Android Inc. , the company that created the original version of the well-known operating system, before it was bought by Google in 2005, revealed some very interesting information that we did not know until today.

Going into details, he released two renders of the Google G1 , the first Android smartphone designed by Google, before the release of the iPhone. In particular, these plans date about five months before the arrival of the first iPhone, which was announced by Apple in January 2007.

Unlike Steve Jobs’ company, Google envisioned its first smartphone as a slider device that would hide an entire QWERTY keyboard under the screen. The green accents were very strong, symbolizing Android of course, with several more buttons below the screen, even when the keyboard is hidden.

More specifically, the device was intended to have dedicated keys for answering or rejecting calls, the center button and back, as well as a circle with movement keys for the various directions, if one did not prefer the touchscreen. Obviously, the physical buttons on the front and the directional paddles now look like relics of a very distant era, but don’t forget that this is 2006.

In the end, Google never gave the go-ahead, and the G1 was slated to launch heavily modified as the HTC Dream, or T-Mobile G1, in September 2008. For the record, Miner revealed that his team was also working on one more device. which looked like a Blackberry, but the impact of the iPhone was such that it was decided to stop its development.

Below you will find the renders that Miner shared on social media.