The first demonstration movie of "Android" celebrating its fifth birthday

As the OS of the smartphone, we celebrated the fifth anniversary of the birth of Android which bisects the share with iOS installed in the iPhone. The latest stable version is 4.1,"Nexus 10" released on November 13Android 4.2 is installed. Although this OS which evolves repeatedly, it is possible to see the demo video of that time on YouTube, what kind of figure it was at the beginning.

Android Demo - YouTube


The tasteless "ANDROID" character


Sergei Brin, founder of Google and president of technology, came out. I am going to tell you about "OS for mobile phones," Android ", for now," I'm announcing that we have a completely free OS like Linux and GNU.


Steve Horowitz is in charge of a detailed story. A month ago, in October 2007 Apple announced the iPhone's SDK, and as it was rumored that Google will also issue its own mobile phone "gPhone", "I do not have gPhone" "With the Android platform you can make thousands of gPhones," he continued.


This is its user interface.


Use the cursor keys to select a menu.



I'm calling Erin.




From the address registered in the address book ......



You can check the location on the map.


A message is displayed on the notification bar at the top of the screen.


Lexi says "Pizza, nice"


This was SMS that we had consulted about what to do for dinner.


In addition to conventional terminals, there is also a touch panel model just like the iPhone. The appearance of the browser looks like this.


I will look at "Berkeley" from the bookmark.


While loading, I'm talking about "browsing on a high speed 3G network".



You can move the page by dragging on the screen.


Reduced to display full screen


When you display history from menu ......


It overlapped in this way and arranged.


Crossing the Earth



You can play games like this


The map ...


Like a browser, you can move by dragging.


Choose 'Street View' from the menu ......


You can see Google Street View.


You can also change the viewpoint by dragging here.


From now on Android basics have not changed anything from now,Life is beautifulaccording to

(1) Microsoft's Windows Mobile, (2) Nokia + Symbian, (3) Ericsson + Motorola + UIQ, (4) Qualcomm BREW. Chasing a bit out of the way bought SavaJ (5) Sun Microsystems. And, going my way at my own pace is (6) Apple

It was a situation. Among them, iPhone and Android come out,Android stood first in share in the first half of 2011That's why.

By the way, the press release at the time of the presentation was like this.

Industry Leaders Announce Open Platform for Mobile Devices | Open Handset Alliance
http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/press_110507.html