>it's incorrect to state that Google was doing Android in response to the iPhone. If you read the Wikipedia article you posted, it mentions that Android was or

>it's incorrect to state that Google was doing Android in response to the iPhone. If you read the Wikipedia article you posted, it mentions that Android was originally supposed to run on digital cameras. Then it was intended as a competitor to Windows Mobile and Symbian. Later, the history reads: "An early prototype had a close resemblance to a BlackBerry phone, with no touchscreen and a physical QWERTY keyboard, but the arrival of 2007's Apple iPhone meant that Android 'had to go back to the drawing board'."