Android pioneers: here are the first Android smartphones of the major manufacturers

There are roughly 20,000 distinct Android devices in the world at the moment, and this number grows by the day. It's getting a little hard to keep tabs on all of them, because this might prove to be a little bit overwhelming even for the most tech-savvy smartphone devotees. This is in stark contrast with Apple's portfolio, which can be easily followed back to the progenitor of its iPhone family.



Let's be honest here, there's hardly any mobile addict who has not watched Steve Jobs' announcement of the original Apple iPhone back in 2007, regardless if you are a fan of everything Apple-branded ...