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What Android looked like in 2008 vs. today
Early Androids were the tech equivalent of alternative rock. iPhones were far too mainstream for some of us, and Android felt like home.
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Mr.Mikla/Shutterstock When Android first arrived on the HTC Dream — known stateside as the T-Mobile G1 — the world was a very different place. The year was 2008. MySpace was still popular, Taylor Swift was only just catching her first taste of mainstream success and the cool kids were still snapping their bedazzled Motorola Razr phones shut before slipping them into even-more-bedazzled skinny jeans.
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