James Martin/CNET. Verizon's exclusive deal with Google's Pixel has been seven years in the making. The relationship between the network giant and the search titan began in 2009 with the Motorola Droid. T-Mobile's G1, which launched a year earlier, is widely regarded as the first phone with Android.
The Ego. 1  The ego is the component of personality that is responsible for dealing with reality. 2  According to Freud, the ego develops from the id and ensures that the impulses of the id can be expressed in a manner acceptable in the real world.
Not to be confused with Narcissism. Egocentrism is the inability to differentiate between self and other. More specifically, it is the inability to untangle subjective schemas from objective reality; an inability to understand or assume any perspective other than their own. Although egocentrism and narcissism appear similar, they are not the same.