What Android Looked Like Right Before the iPhone Launched

[JMcEntegart]

What did Android look like before the iPhone exploded onto the scene?

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[Guest]

Nice! Google had to steal Apple's intellectual property and pawn it off as its own in order to compete! Oh, and Oracle's, too!

Google cannot compete on its own and has to shamelessly steal from everyone. Really pathetic.

Go Apple! Go good guys! Keep suing these clowns until they quit stealing!

 

[Guest]

A clear sign that Google copies all Apple products. What's next? "gTunes"?

 

[Goldengoose]

Fail troll above. Too obvious.

On topic: Looks a hell of alot like a blackberry, just without the curves.

 

[lamorpa]

APPL_GOOD_GUYS = APPL_DROCKET_FANGUYS;

 

[molo9000]

Makes you wonder if the modern smartphone would have existed without the iPhone.

 

[stingstang]

[citation][nom]Goldengoose[/nom]Fail troll above. Too obvious.On topic: Looks a hell of alot like a blackberry, just without the curves.[/citation]
No, I'd say it's a successful troll. Already 6 people have voted it down from having taken offense to it.

 

[Guest]

Easy way to piss people off - "samsung products suck, and the android sheep will buy them anyway"

 

[zak_mckraken]

@stingstang : I'm not offensed, I just find that trolls are an eyesore so I vote them down to put them under the bridge where they belong.

The Sooner was a nice prototype. Too bad Google couldn't release a finished consumer product before the iPhone came out. We could be living in a whole different world today...

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]zak_mckraken[/nom]Too bad Google couldn't release a finished consumer product before the iPhone came out. We could be living in a whole different world today...[/citation]

Yes, one where Google was forced to go back to being a search provider after failing miserably in the mobile market.

 

[wind82]

Apple did not innovate anything with the iphone .The smart phone very much would have existed as it is today because iphone is no more then an apple version of the windows phone. The windows phone is no more then a pocket pc with a cellular modem stuffed inside. The pocket pc platform started development in 1995 with windows ce . Pocket pc devices were released around the time of the ill fated palm pilot . please research things before you post stupid misleading comments . The only thing apple innovates is the amount of money they pocket .

 

[halcyon]

Okay, if I'm honest it will be seen as trolling. So I'll just say that's an... device that looks. Well. It's grey. I know my iPhone isn't the best but I'm glad I've got it.

 

[tmshdw]

[citation][nom]zak_mckraken[/nom]@stingstang : I'm not offensed, I just find that trolls are an eyesore so I vote them down to put them under the bridge where they belong.The Sooner was a nice prototype. Too bad Google couldn't release a finished consumer product before the iPhone came out. We could be living in a whole different world today...[/citation]

Yea, you mean one where android would be in the toilet with RIMM since droid-world had banked their future on a RIMM copy???

 

[halcyon]

[citation][nom]havocCAUSER1[/nom]Easy way to piss people off - "samsung products suck, and the android sheep will buy them anyway"[/citation]
Well, from what I seen it appears that anything non-Apple is preferred and Samsung, being non-Apple gets a lot of love here. ...nothing wrong with that, I don't think THG forum-goers even register on Samsung or Apple's radar but we sure are an opinionated bunch.

 

[azetec]

You should all do a reality check and see that companies like Samsung, HTC, LG, Sony, Nokia and Motorola are in telecommunication business and some of them producing mobile phones since 1981. From 1981 till 2007 all these companies have produced hundreds of mobile phones models and have sold billions of units worldwide before Apple was ever thinking of producing a mobile phone in 2007.
In contrast Apple was not a telecommunication company like the others and had zero history or research & development put in the field of developing mobile phones. So in 2007 Apple just copied all the technology they could have found in all other mobile phones and smart devices, and with all that stolen knowledge and technology they have created the iPhone.
Obviously they couldn't have been innovative in any way with their first mobile phone since all the technology was stolen from others, Apple's iPhone was nothing but a copycat.
If you wanna see what models of mobile phones, smartphones or smart devices did Apple just copied with their iPhone just check the following list of models that were produced way before the year 2007 when the first iPhone was released:
- remember the Compaq iPaq models released since year 2000 upwards
- then the old HP iPaq models released since year 2004 upwards, running on Windows Mobile featuring touchscreen displays with hand write recognition models: HP iPAQ h6320, HP iPAQ h6325, HP iPAQ rw6818, HP iPAQ rw6815, HP iPAQ rw6828
- Motorola models released since year 2004: Motorola A1000, Motorola A1010, Motorola ROKR E6, all smartphones with big touchscreen displays
- many HTC models based on Windows Mobile started from year 2002 upwards, including the first Windows Mobile phone released to marked, here are some model examples since year 2006: HTC P3300, HTC TyTN, HTC P3600 they are all smartphones with big touchscreen displays and hand write recognition
- in 2004 Samsung released a Windows Mobile phone model Samsung i700, again a smartphone with big touchscreen display
- Nokia Comunicator series released since 1998 models: Nokia 9000 Communicator, Nokia 9210i Communicator, Nokia 7710 touchscreen display, Nokia N95 they are all smartphones with big displays
- model from year 2006: LG KE850 Prada again with big touchscreen display
- model from year 2006: Philips S900
For the ignorants just check the above mentioned models to see how much iPhone resembles them in look and functionality.

 

[pneumo]

well how 'bout that ...
and suddenly,
it went silent ...

 

[eddieroolz]

So essentially, the folks at Google saw the iPhone, and was like "Crap, we're not gonna make it. Start taking elements of iPhone!"

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]azetec[/nom]wall of text summed up as "I'm mad"[/citation]

Cool story, bro! No one bothered reading it, but I'm sure it was good all the same.

 

[tashfeenmajid]

If anyone thinks that HTC and other companies copied iPhone, please do your self a favor and look at these phones that were announced/released way before Apple even announced or even showed a prototype.

HTC TyTN (June 2006) http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_tytn-1659.php
HTC P3300 (September 2006) http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_p3300-1693.php
HTC P3600 (September 2006) http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_p3600-1694.php
HTC P4350 (November 2006) http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_p4350-1781.php

and here is the kicker:

LG PRADA KE850 (January 2007) http://www.gsmarena.com/lg_ke850_prada-1828.php

Yes It was also announced at almost the same time as Apple, but the LG couldn't be a copy of iPhone, because it was way more capable than the half-assed phone known as iPhone 2G. Too remind everyone how crappy the iPhone was when it came out, it didn't have GPS, 3G, it couldn't Cut/Copy/Paste, it didn't have any Office Suite, heck it couldn't even record videos. It still doesn't have any flash capability to this day!
LG even filed a lawsuit against Apple for copying their Prada phone.

So iPhone fanboys! (and that includes Toms Hardware/Guide as well) get your facts straight as to who copied who.

Just like Windows Mobile had 2 versions of their OS, Standard for non-touch based phones, and Professional for touch screen phones, Google could also have 2 different builds of theirs OS: One that you see pictured above, and the other that finally was launched as HTC G1. And by the way, G1 was not very different from any other HTC phone that came before iPhone.

 

[frank_drebin]

[citation][nom]tashfeenmajid[/nom]If anyone thinks that HTC and other companies copied iPhone, please do your self a favor and look at these phones that were announced/released way before Apple even announced or even showed a prototype.HTC TyTN (June 2006) http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_tytn-1659.phpHTC P3300 (September 2006) http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_p3300-1693.phpHTC P3600 (September 2006) http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_p3600-1694.phpHTC P4350 (November 2006) http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_p4350-1781.phpand here is the kicker:LG PRADA KE850 (January 2007) http://www.gsmarena.com/lg_ke850_prada-1828.phpYes It was also announced at almost the same time as Apple, but the LG couldn't be a copy of iPhone, because it was way more capable than the half-assed phone known as iPhone 2G. Too remind everyone how crappy the iPhone was when it came out, it didn't have GPS, 3G, it couldn't Cut/Copy/Paste, it didn't have any Office Suite, heck it couldn't even record videos. It still doesn't have any flash capability to this day!LG even filed a lawsuit against Apple for copying their Prada phone.So iPhone fanboys! (and that includes Toms Hardware/Guide as well) get your facts straight as to who copied who. Just like Windows Mobile had 2 versions of their OS, Standard for non-touch based phones, and Professional for touch screen phones, Google could also have 2 different builds of theirs OS: One that you see pictured above, and the other that finally was launched as HTC G1. And by the way, G1 was not very different from any other HTC phone that came before iPhone.[/citation]


umm, these may be ok WinMo phones but they look nothing like iPhone at all. Now most of phones on the market (not only HTC) do resemble an iPhone ....