Today, we can say that Apple holiday — exactly 15 years ago, the Cupertinians released their first iPhone.

How it was

The iPhone, also called the first iPhone, iPhone 2G, the original iPhone, or iPhone 1, was shown on January 9, 2007. Of course, the head of the company, Steve Jobs, presented the first Apple smartphone to the world. «I AM With looking forward to it in for two seconds half years», — Jobs admitted then.

He introduced the iPhone as a combination of three devices at once: «widescreen iPod with touch control», «revolutionary mobile phone» and «breakthrough internet communicator»… The main feature is the function «multitouch» — recognition by the touch screen of several simultaneous touches. TO for example, now neither one modern gadget is not dispenses with the usual possibility of enlarging the desired fragment of the photo and video via information-breeding fingers.

AND although Time magazine called the iPhone an invention of 2007, it deserved and a lot of criticism. The most important thing — he not Supported 3G networks (2G only). What’s most interesting, u smartphone not there were such modern goods as the App Store (the store was launched in July 2008), clipboard, front camera (it appeared on Apple smartphones in 2010, and FaceTime debuted in iPhone 4), video recording, GPS, flashlight, Siri (the voice assistant appeared along with iPhone 4S в 2011) etc.

In spite of that the official announcement took place in the beginning of the year, in iPhone sales only started in the summer. Per a few days in front of the store, queues lined up, which until to this day remain the tradition of the start of sales of new iPhones.

Recall that the latest released models were the iPhone 13, 13 mini, 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max.

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