in the Palm Pre and its webOS operating system. At that time, Android had yet to break out and both the Pre and webOS energized those looking for a touchscreen smartphone other than the iPhone.Surprisingly, the Pre bombed when it was released in June 2009. Being a Sprint exclusive didn't help. About five and a half months later, the Motorola DROID was released on Verizon with Android 2.0 pre-installed and this combo kicked off Androidmania.was the belle of the ball with the Droid Bionic.
But over the years, the CES has become less important to smartphone manufacturers even though in 2017 and 2018to the event in order to introduce it in private to Sammy's partners. Because of COVID, last year the event was streamed virtually instead of being held before live attendees, and this year several companies have opted to make their presentations over a video conferencing platform.
Those firms that dropped out of CES or plan on streaming their CES presence next month include T-Mobile, Amazon, Lenovo, Meta, Twitter, AT&T, Hisense, Intel, General Motors, Pinterest, TikTok, and Waymo.