HTC Dream /

The HTC Dream (also marketed as T-Mobile G1 in the US and parts of Europe and Era G1 in Poland) is an Internet-enabled smartphone with an operating system designed by Google and hardware designed by HTC. It was the first phone to the market to use the Android mobile device platform. The phone is part of an open standards effort of the Open Handset Alliance. The HTC Dream was released in the US on 22 October 2008; in the UK on 30 October 2008; and became available in other European countries including Austria, Netherlands, and the Czech Republic in early 2009. It was released in Germany in February 2009 with a QWERTZ keyboard and in France in March 2009 with an AZERTY keyboard. On 10 March 2009, it became available in Poland as Era G1 under a local mobile brand affiliated with T-Mobile. As of 2008, in the US, it was priced starting at $129.99 for new and existing T-Mobile customers if purchased with a two-year T-Mobile voice and data plan, and $399 without a contract. Congruent with claims made by T-Mobile representatives, the handset does need the data plan to fully function as a smartphone, but can be used as a regular phone (with some smartphone capabilities available when