A few weeks back my coworker Mario Aguilar jell about corrupt the first ever Android earpiece tocommemoratethe roving OS ’s 10 year anniversary . He succeeded , and the T - Mobile G1 came with a surprisal — a micro Mount Rushmore State circuit card with precisely 11 mp3s on it . So the question we ’re leave with is , hey , do we have your telephone ? [ Please see the update below . ]
Aftermarket sellers tend towards wiping devices to keep your sensitive information from diminish into the hands of whoever buy these old devices . Not the case here ! Rather than shame the trafficker , we made a play list of ten of the songs(the 11th , “ Karma ” by The Construction Brothers , seems to only be available on Reverb Nation ) to see if this ramble any memories . Were you , in 2008 , deeply into Kid Sister and Flight of the Concords ? It ’s altogether potential your speech sound is now our earpiece .
There ’s one odd wrinkle to this eclectic micro - library , and that ’s the file cabinet modification date of these songs . Though the G1 was first secrete to the public in October of 2008 , all 11 files were tote up to the board between 11:25 and 11:45 a.m. on August 5th of that twelvemonth . Was this Micro SD used in some other twist antecedently ? Is this an early Android software error ? Did we buy a haunted phone ? Only you , the previous proprietor of this pocket computing machine , can clear up this mystery for us .
Photo: Mario Aguilar (Gizmodo)
Update 1:20 postmortem examination :
Ooops ! Moments after publishing , we learn that there was , in fact , nothing peculiar about the 11 songsthat seemed so delightfully different from each other . It turns out the Sung dynasty came pre - loaded on all machine — so as we mistrust , that August 5th appointment belike did have something to do with the former Android software .
Without this data , we ’ll almost certainly never find the original proprietor of this equipment . I hazard we ’re maintain it .
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