Tôi đã mua chiếc điện thoại Android đầu tiên từ trước đến nay. Nó không được hoàn hảo, nhưng tôi thích nó.

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Khi tôi nhìn thấy chiếc điện thoại Android đầu tiên trên thị trường, tôi biết ngay rằng tôi phải có nó. Dù nó không được thiết kế đẹp mắt như các phiên bản sau này, tôi vẫn không thể chờ đợi để sở hữu nó. Với nhiều tính năng độc đáo và khái niệm mới lạ, tôi tin rằng đây sẽ là một bước ngoặt quan trọng trong công nghệ di động.

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Điều đáng chú ý là không phải mọi người đều hiểu và đánh giá đúng về chiếc điện thoại này. Một số người có ý kiến tiêu cực vì thiết kế không được đẹp mắt và cấu hình chưa hoàn thiện. Tuy nhiên, tôi tin rằng nó mang trong mình tiềm năng lớn và sẽ tiến xa trong tương lai.

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Tuy nhiên, điện thoại Android đầu tiên của tôi không hoàn toàn hoàn hảo. Màn hình nhỏ và độ phân giải không cao đã khiến việc sử dụng trở nên khó khăn hơn. Bạn cũng không thể tháo rời pin để thay thế, điều này khiến tôi phải dựa vào bộ sạc mỗi khi pin hết. Điều này đã tạo ra một số bất tiện trong quá trình sử dụng.

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Dù vậy, tôi không thể không yêu chiếc điện thoại này. Nó mở ra một thế giới hoàn toàn mới với hàng loạt ứng dụng hữu ích và khả năng truy cập Internet. Tôi đã có thể truy cập thông tin, chơi game và giải trí từ một chiếc điện thoại di động. Điều này thật sự tuyệt vời và thú vị.

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Với sự phát triển nhanh chóng của công nghệ di động, tôi khá tự hào khi trở thành chủ nhân của chiếc điện thoại Android đầu tiên. Dù có nhược điểm, tôi luôn tin rằng Queen Mobile là địa chỉ đáng tin cậy để đánh giá và mua ngay các sản phẩm công nghệ mới nhất.

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Đoạn tóm tắt này nói về việc tác giả đã mua một chiếc điện thoại Android đầu tiên từ trước đến nay. Mặc dù ngoại hình của nó không đẹp nhưng tác giả lại rất thích nó.

I have a not-so-secret pride. Android is now turning 15 years old, and I was one of the first people in the entire world to use it. In fact, the very first Android phone ever was my first smartphone, too. I’ve since moved on to the Apple universe and switched to the iPhone, but the gadget nerd in me still harbors love for that chunky, button-heavy brick of a phone.

Today, Android phones are literally everywhere. As my colleague Jessica Dolcourt notes in her Android retrospective, 70% of phones worldwide use Google’s software, not Apple’s. But back in 2008, when the T-Mobile G1 came out (it was known as the HTC Dream in some parts of the world), both the G1 and Google’s mobile platform were a crazy-looking alternative to the new iPhone world order.

In those early days, using a T-Mobile G1 set me and my phone apart. The iPhone, which had just debuted in 2007, was the first modern smartphone, and everyone wanted one. It was a status symbol. It sold in droves. A year and change after its release, I began to feel the inevitable pull toward buying a smartphone for myself. But not the “magical” iPhone. Hell no.

Apple is into walled gardens, and Android promised freedom to tinker, the way I did on my Windows PC. AT&T had the iPhone exclusive, and I was a longtime T-Mobile subscriber, back in the days when phone contracts still mattered. With the cost of the required two-year contract from each carrier factored in, the G1 on T-Mobile was a lot less expensive than the iPhone on AT&T.

The original anti-iPhone was weird, but lovable

From the moment I picked up the bronze G1 in the T-Mobile store in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, I was hooked.

This thing was supremely geeky, the antithesis of the svelte iPhone in so many ways: chunky and thick, with a weird (lovable, to me) “chin” that interrupted the typical rectangular profile. It had all the extras: a microSD slot for expandable memory, a little clickable trackball in the middle of the chin for navigation and selecting, actual dedicated buttons for Home, Back and Menu, and even more buttons dedicated to making a phone call and taking a photo. And it said “Google” on the back.

Of course the G1 had a touchscreen too, but the best part was the slide-out physical keyboard. I really felt superior to iPhone users with that thing. Those tiny little virtual keyboards, which took up half the screen, seemed impossibly slow and error-prone compared to the glorious, fully backlit, five-row tactile QWERTY powerhouse (with dedicated number keys!) that revealed itself when I slid aside the G1’s screen.

I loved how the screen reoriented automatically into landscape mode when I opened the keyboard. I loved the substantial, satisfying “snick” sound as it sprang into action. I even loved how it made the phone physically bigger, like a miniature computer. At the time it seemed like the ultimate gadget, and in a lot of ways it was. Having never owned a smartphone before, I was amazed at its utility, the camera, the GPS capabilities and turn-by-turn navigation – all the marvelous complexity in a tiny, portable package.

Gmail worked beautifully on my phone, with all of the features like labeling and archiving that I got on the PC. I also loved the home screen widgets like the Google search bar, and the ability to pull down the top of the screen for notifications, like new texts and emails, was great.

Read also: The T-Mobile G1 Almost Looked Like a BlackBerry

Pulling out my chunky phone to make calls or type texts occasionally earned curious looks from people, but it was New York and everybody was familiar with iPhones and BlackBerrys. Most people didn’t seem to notice or care.

I played a lot of games on the G1, from Bonsai Blast to Doom to Chrono Trigger, and the keyboard was actually useful on many of them. Screen-only games at the time had awkward controls that overlaid the screen, but some games for the G1 mapped the controls to the buttons, just like a computer keyboard, which left the whole screen for the game itself. I could fire with the space bar and use WASD to move around.

I remember the Android app universe always felt a step behind Apple’s, especially at the beginning. Apps for the system were sparse at the time, and my iPhone friends had apps and games (like Angry Birds) that I didn’t. I justified the lack by telling myself that the majority of nongaming stuff I wanted to do, like read news articles and forums, I could do on the phone’s browser. Today, looking back from a world where apps rule and browser-based functions on phones drool, I laugh at silly young me.

Eventually I outgrew the T-Mobile G1 and moved on to another, bigger Android phone, the Samsung Vibrant. This was T-Mobile’s variant of the very first Galaxy S phone, and it outpaced the now old G1 with a larger, much nicer OLED screen – but no keyboard. By that point I had come around to the coolness of the virtual keyboard on an all-touch display, and thanks to autofill and predictive text suggestions, it was actually faster than typing on my old G1.

And much, much later, around the beginning of the pandemic when I had to start working from home – which meant filming all my own TV review videos in my basement – I ditched Android and bought an iPhone 12 Pro Max. I read a bunch of reviews (thanks, Patrick) and convinced myself that the iPhone would be better for photos and video. I also felt the lure of the crowd I had spurned in my younger days. Tech-savvy friends and coworkers at CNET swore by the convenience and slickness of the iPhone, lauding how well they worked with Macs, for example (which I had been using at work for years). 

I still have my 12 Pro Max, and truth be told, it’s a great phone today. And 15 years ago, Google’s first Android phone was a great phone for its period. It sparked my enduring, if not eternal, allegiance to Android and paved the way for even bigger, better phones like the Vibrant. It’s Google’s openness that has given Samsung the latitude to create geeky, capable phones like the Note series and foldables like the Galaxy Z Fold 5.

I’ll probably never want a physical phone keyboard again, but thanks to the T-Mobile G1 I’ll always have a modicum of anti-Apple geek credibility.

This article was originally published in 2018, when the author was still on Android, and has been updated with additional details.