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HTC Magic (Sapphire)

The first proper Android smartphone.
While the HTC Dream, known as the T-Mobile G1, was the first Android device on the market in general, the Magic, also known as the Sapphire, was its evolution and made some significant changes.
The HTC Magic is actually the Dream model without a physical keyboard, with increased RAM in a slimmer and nicer form factor.

The age, as well as the origins of Android, can be seen immediately under the screen of this device. In addition to the typical home, back and menu buttons that have been found on every Android phone over the years, there are additionally buttons for answering and ending a call (which is also responsible for turning the device on, waking it up and putting it to sleep) and a trackball. This little ball allows you to navigate menus, scroll the screen, scroll through tabs in apps, and also acts as an "ok" button when pressed. In addition, it has a white backlight, which is only used as a notification light.
Interestingly, there is a multicolored LED on the right side of the call speaker, but this one only shows the battery level during charging.

On the bottom of the device is a modified mini USB jack, called ExtUSB, which enhances it with headphone support, because, like the Dream, it doesn't have a headphone jack. This was a kind of standard on HTC phones of the time.

The Magic gained the Sense UI overlay, introduced with the Hero model, after a system update.

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