Oracle, Google suit: Details of Google’s first phone released

Details of the first prototype Google phone surfaced in court in the trial over whether Google improperly used Oracle’s Java programming language to build Android. The original prototype featured a full keyboard, small landscape screen, 2 MP camera and a miniSD card for storage. Google pitched the phone to T-Mobile in 2006, according to a report from Slashgear, and had even had plans to subsidize the cost of customers’ unlimited data plans to give them service for $9.99 per month. The result looked something like a BlackBerry or the “Facebook phone,” the HTC Status, which has a full keyboard and small touchscreen, though with only 64 MB of RAM and a much worse display. The prototype’s specs may look anemic now, but would have been impressive in 2006.