Google's First Android Demo (2007)

Published when Google released its first Android software kit to developers in November 2007, this short video has Google's Sergey Brin and Android engineering director Steve Horowitz showing prototype phones, one in a Palm-style smartphone shape, running text messaging, Google Maps, desktop-quality web browsing through WebKit and 3D graphics. It is a developer pitch rather than a stage keynote, and that difference is the point. Android was offered as an open platform for many phone makers, the opposite strategy to the closed iPhone shown ten months earlier. Watch the two back to back and you have the split that still divides the phone market.