Android co-founder Rich Miner took to Twitter to share a demo of what the first Android phone could look like.
The offerings of what would have been the first ever Android phone were designed five months before the original iPhone was launched.
It has a black and neon look, a jog wheel and more buttons than the HTC Dream.
Android phones have been on the market for over 14 years now. The first ever Android phone was launched in 2008, a year after the first ever iPhone was introduced. It was the HTC Dream, also known as the T-mobile G1. However, renders of what would have been the first ever Android phone were built five months before the original iPhone was released. Android co-founder Rich Miner took to Twitter to share a demo of what the first Android phone could look like.
The render shared by Miner shows that the black and neon phone is similar to the original HTC Dream, but has a sling keyboard and a physical button. The leaked device makes more of an impact than the HTC Dream's simple final look, featuring its neon green keyboard.
There's the Google logo in the upper left corner of the screen, and it's also neon. It also had a jog wheel, which could have been used for navigation. Instead, the HTC Dream received a trackball.
The design of the phone includes a lot of buttons in general. Email and the "@" symbol keys, along with the answer, reject, home and back keys, are located at the bottom of the phone. On the other hand, HTC Dream only had five buttons.
Miner says they were working on two phones at the time: "Urgent," a BlackBerry-like phone, and a Dream. However, after the launch of the iPhone, the company closed the "Sooner" and redoubled its efforts in the development of the Dream.