A curious story revealed by the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal. The famous newspaper publishes that the Korean LG was chosen by Google for the development of the first smart phone to house the then unknown and experimental Android system.
As we have learned through Unwired View, the American publication would have succeeded in discovering who was hiding behind the first prototypes of Android phones, whose authorship was never revealed by Google or by the person responsible for those devices.
Apparently, the Korean multinational had a contract that established the alliance with Google to be the leading firm in charge of supporting the beginnings of Android in the smartphone market. However, the agreement ended up broken by LG, which forced the Mountain View to transfer the alliance to the Taiwanese HTC. The rest is history.
From what has been learned, the choice of LG as the original responsible for the development of mobile phones to work with the then enigmatic Android was due to the portfolio that the firm had in 2007.
That was the year that the world met Apple's iPhone, the terminal that revolutionized the way of understanding mobile telephony, and that at that time faced devices with which it competed in design, such as the LG Chocolate or LG Prada, and more afternoon, LG Arena.
The reasons that would have pushed those responsible for the Korean multinational to ruin the agreement with Google are a mystery. By then, the prototypes that were known (and as we say, did not reveal the source of his own) is enclavaban in a category that, by design and usability, were closer to the pattern of the BlackBerry that the revolutionary concept of the iPhone. It may be that in that direction an answer to the divorce of LG and Google at that time can be found.
