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Android, Inc was founded in Palo Alto, California by Andy Rubin
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The company's early intentions was to develop and advanced operating system for digital cameras
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THey realized the Market for the cameras was not big enough, and diverted their efforts into producing a smartphone operating system
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An earlier prototype codenamed "Sooner" had a closer resemblance to a BlackBerry phone, with no touchscreen, but was later re-engineered to support a touchscreen.
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HTC Dream was the first commercially available smartphone using Android, it was unveled November 5, 2007 and released October 22, 2008
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Gogle launched its Nexus Series of devices that where smartphones and tablets that runned on Adroid's operating system
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Larry Page announced in a blog post that Andy Rubin had moved from the Android division to take on new projects at Google. He was replaced by Sundar Pichai
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Sundar Pichai is the head of the Google' Chrome division, which develops Chrome OS