The Samsung Galaxy S8 made a huge splash this week, but it has been a long way to get to this point. We're not talking about missing the MWC, with this week's Counterclockwise we would like to take you back to where it all began. You see, the new flagship - along with any Samsung-made Android device - is called "Galaxy" because that was the name of the first Android phone the company ever made The Samsung I7500 Galaxy is S8's great grand daddy. It launched about half a year after the first ever Android (the G1). You can say that Samsung has been with the platform from its shaky first...
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