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The world's first Android phone, which mobile phone brand released?
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Not Samsung, not Huawei, not Xiaomi, not OV.
The world's first Android operating system mobile phone is the HTC G1, released in September 2008.
In the era of functional machines more than 10 years ago, HTC (full name Hongda International Electronics Co., Ltd., founded in Taiwan in 1997, the daughter of chairman Wang Yongqing - Wang Xuehong) can be said to be a trend cub who dares to break through and innovate.
In 2009, HTC released its second Android phone, the HTC Magic.
3.2-inch 480× 320 resolution touch screen, rear 3 million pixels, support video shooting.
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There are also HTC Shift slide phones using Windows Mobile systems, released in 2008.
One slide and one cover, and the phone becomes a computer in seconds.
Have you used a beautiful boy, in the message area to gather ah ~ ~ ？
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Since then, there have been more and more smartphones equipped with Android.
In November 2009, Motorola partnered with carrier Verizon to launch the world's first Android 2.0 phone--- Droid.
In 2010, Sony Ericsson launched their flagship model for Android, the X10.
However, partners after the 80s and 90s should remember that the Chinese mobile phone market around 2010 was the era of Nokia's dominance.
According to the "2010-2011 China Mobile Phone Market Research Annual Report", in the 2010 China mobile phone market brand attention distribution map, Nokia alone occupied more than 45% of the market.
It can be said that it is a stable half of the country with its own strength.
The launcher of the first Android phone, HTC, has developed for more than 1 year.
It also came directly to the 3rd place in the total market in China and the 2nd position in the smartphone market.
In the smartphone rankings, it even surpassed Samsung, Motorola and Sony Ericsson.
In that year, HTC mobile phones were also considered to have been scenery.
Later, when everyone was moving closer to the Android camp, nokia emperors were still carrying their proud Symbian S60 v5 system.
As a result, a generation of kings fell, and the vacated market was quickly divided and cannibalized.
In the 2011 market statistics, Nokia's market share has dropped to 33.4%.
The rapid rise of Apple's mobile phones has also caused the share of other mobile phone brands to plummet. HTC's domestic market also fell directly to 3.6%.
But this does not mean that HTC is also declining at this time.
In 2011, HTC's total global shipments reached 43 million units, accounting for 15% of the global market share.
The company's total market capitalization soared to $33.6 billion, an absolute period of upside.
Its founder, Wang Xuehong, was also selected for the 2011 CCTV China Economic Person of the Year. At this time, HTC has unlimited scenery, and it seems that it has the tendency to grow into the next generation of giant Macs.
But after this, HTC mobile phones ushered in his bumpy road.
HTC started from a foundry, and in terms of patents, it simply can't do other old mobile phones.
There are only 2 solutions, either to lead the team to step up innovation, but it takes too long; or to directly acquire other people's patents, not to mention the cost, others may not necessarily sell.
After 2012, HTC was in a patent predicament.
First, Apple demanded that all 29 HTC mobile phones be banned in the United States on the grounds of patent infringement, and finally Apple won the lawsuit, and HTC's North American market share has fallen from 24% to 6.2%.
After that, Microsoft, Samsung, Nokia, BlackBerry and other brands successively demanded a ban on the sale of HTC on the grounds of patent infringement.
As a result, in 2013, some HTC products were banned in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom; in 2014, some HTC products were banned in Germany.
In 2013, Nokia had only 8.3% of the Chinese mobile phone market share. HTC is also no longer on the list, being classified among other options.
Instead, Samsung and Apple quickly took over the market.
However, these "external factors" did not make HTC fall directly.
HTC still releases a large number of new flagships, but the positioning and naming of these models is really confusing.
The release time is also very close, look at the following, a year to release so many flagship models, consumers really can't stand it.
HTC One X and HTC One S (February 26, 2012).
HTC One V (February 27, 2012), HTC One XL (April 2012) and HTC One X+ (October 2, 2012).
In 2017, HTC's global share of mobile phones was only 0.68%, and it had to reconsider where it went next.
Wang Xuehong once said that HTC will not become the next Nokia, and their current targets have been aimed at AR and VR.
As of the end of 2020, HTC ranks first in the world with a market share of 35.7% in the VR field.
If the metacosm becomes the next outlet, perhaps we can see another brilliant HTC.
Yesterday (December 13, 2021), HTC Chinese mainland official website showed that HTC has no mobile phones for sale in Chinese mainland.
The blockchain smartphone EXODUS displayed on its official website is not sold in Chinese mainland, and clicking on the link will jump to the HTC US official website.
At present, HTC's main business in Chinese mainland is VR, and some time ago it also released a new model of VR glasses.
HTC mobile phone Tmall official flagship store, HTC mobile phone Jingdong self-operated flagship store and other stores have been closed.
In the more than 10 years of smartphone popularity, we have witnessed the collapse of the Nokia dynasty and the strong rise of Apple and Samsung.
There are even many brands that have been beautiful for a long time, because of insufficient innovation, have disappeared from our vision.
But in the end, what we see is that domestic mobile phones dare to innovate, are not afraid of strong enemies, and amaze the world with scientific and technological strength.