Sure, the very first iPhone released today, but does anyone remember the first Android smartphone?
In October of 1998 HTC’s T-Mobile G1, or HTC Dream as it’s known outside the U.S would launch being the first phone with the Android OS. The G1 was priced at $179 — which was pretty affordable even in those days — and featured top-of-the-line specs including a Qualcomm MSM7201A processor, 192MB of RAM, and 256MB of internal storage (expandable up to 16GB). It also stocked a 3.15MP rear camera, and a 1,150mAh battery.
I don’t think 1998 is correct, this was my first Android phone and I used it in 2008 (a decade later than OP) which is what the wiki also says:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Dream#History
Android itself didn’t start development until 5 years later than OP:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#History
I also found this cool category for phones that came out in 1998. They’re all Nokias. This was even a year before BlackBerry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mobile_phones_introduced_in_1998
edit: the calendar open in the picture says September 23 2008 which is when the phone actually came out…
Yes, 2008, not 1998. I hope this isn’t the old Reddit trick of making a deliberate obvious mistake in the title to drive engagement. We don’t really need to drive engagement here.
https://www.androidauthority.com/first-android-phone-t-mobile-g1-htc-dream-906362/