The iPhone (retrospectively referred to unofficially as the iPhone 2G, iPhone 1 or original iPhone) is the first iPhone model and the first

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designed and marketed by

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After years of rumors and speculation, it was officially announced on January 9, 2007, and it was released in the United States on June 29, 2007. Development of the iPhone as a product began in 2005 and continued in complete secrecy until its public unveiling. The device broke with prevailing mobile phone designs by eliminating most physical hardware buttons, and eschewing a stylus for its finger-friendly touch interface, featuring instead only a few physical buttons and a touch screen. It featured

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GSM The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation ( 2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such ...

cellular connectivity with GPRS and

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support for

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, and it used continuous internet access and onboard processing to support features unrelated to voice communication. Its successor, the

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, was announced on June 9, 2008. The iPhone quickly became Apple's most successful product, with later generations propelling it to become the most profitable company at the time. The introduction of the

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allowed established companies and startup developers to build careers and earn billions of dollars, via the platform, while providing consumers with new ways to access information and connect with other people. The iPhone largely appealed to the general public, as opposed to the business community

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and IBM focused on at the time, and, by integrating existing technology and expanding on usability, the iPhone turned the smartphone industry "on its head".

History

In 1999, Apple CEO

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envisioned an Apple

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product that the user could interact with directly with their fingers rather than using a stylus. The stylus was a common tool for many existing touchscreen devices at the time including Apple's own

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, launched in 1993. He decided that the device would require a triple layered

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, a very new and advanced technology at the time. This helped with removing the physical

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and

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, the same as was common at the time for

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s, human machine interfaces and point of sale systems. Jobs recruited a group of Apple engineers to investigate the idea as a side project. When Jobs reviewed the prototype and its

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, he saw the potential in developing the concept into a mobile phone to compete with already established brands in the then emerging market for touch screen phones. The whole effort was called Project Purple 2 and began in 2005. Apple purchased the "iphone.org" domain in December 1999. Apple created the device during a secretive and unprecedented collaboration with

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, now part of

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. The development cost of the collaboration was estimated to have been $150 million over a thirty-month period. Apple rejected the "

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" approach that had yielded the

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, a largely unsuccessful collaboration with

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. Instead, Cingular Wireless gave Apple the liberty to develop the iPhone's hardware and software

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. The original iPhone was introduced by Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007 in a

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at the

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held in Moscone West in San Francisco, California. In his address, Jobs said, "This is a day that I have been looking forward to for two and a half years," and that "today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone". Jobs introduced the iPhone as a combination of three devices: a "widescreen iPod with touch controls"; a "revolutionary mobile phone"; and a "breakthrough Internet communicator". Six weeks prior to the iPhone's release, the plastic screen was replaced with glass, after Jobs was upset that the screen of the prototype he was carrying in his pocket had been scratched by his keys. The quick switch led to a bidding process for a manufacturing contractor that was won by

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, which had just opened up a new wing of its

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factory complex specifically for this bid.

Release

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The iPhone was released in the United States on June 29, 2007 at the price of $499 for the 4 GB model and $599 for the 8 GB model, both requiring a 2-year contract. Thousands of people were reported to have waited outside

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and

retail stores days before the device's launch; many stores reported stock shortages within an hour of availability. To avoid repeating the problems of the PlayStation 3 launch, which caused

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and even a shooting, off-duty police officers were hired to guard stores overnight. It was later made available in the

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, the

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, and

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in November 2007. Six out of ten Americans surveyed said they knew before its release that the iPhone was coming. First iPhone Macworld 2007 DSCF1286

Post-release

The iPhone's main competitors in both consumer and business markets were considered to be the

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LG Viewty The LG-KU990 or LG-KE990 (known and marketed as the LG Viewty) is a high-end mobile phone manufactured by LG Electronics, released in August 2007. It has a resistive touchscreen and was specially marketed for its camera, being the first touchscreen ...

Samsung Ultra Smart F700 The SGH-F700, marketed as the Ultra Smart F700, is a mobile phone manufactured by Samsung. Using Vodafone as its network provider, the phone was first introduced at the 3GSM World Congress that was held in February 2007. Sales to the European m ...

Nokia N95 The Nokia N95 is a smartphone produced by Nokia as part of their Nseries line of portable devices. Announced in September 2006, it was released to the market in March 2007. The N95 ran S60 3rd Edition, on Symbian OS v9.2. It has a two-way sli ...

, Nokia E61i,

Palm Treo 750 The Palm Treo 750 is a GSM/UMTS smartphone released on January 8, 2007. Features *Communications **UMTS tri band: UMTS 850, UMTS 1900, UMTS 2100, HSDPA (with Windows Mobile 6 upgrade) **GSM / GPRS / EDGE quad band: GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 18 ...

Palm Centro The Palm Centro is a smartphone marketed by Palm, Inc. beginning its release on October 14, 2007 offering the functionality of the larger Treo 755p in a smaller size. The Centro is one of the last devices to run the Palm OS operating system. The ...

HTC Touch The HTC Touch, also known as the HTC P3450 or its codename the HTC Elf or the HTC Vogue for the CDMA variant, is a Windows Mobile 6-powered Pocket PC designed and manufactured by HTC. Its main, unique feature is a user interface named ''TouchFLO'' ...

Sony Ericsson W960 The Sony Ericsson W960i is a 3G phone that Sony Ericsson announced in June 2007, as an upgrade to the W950. Features The W960 is a successor to the W950, and belongs to the Walkman series of phones. Its features include 8 GB of integrate ...

Sony Ericsson C905 The Sony Ericsson C905 is a high-end mobile phone in Sony's 'C' (Cyber-shot) range, which, along with the low-end 'S' (Snapshot) range cameras, supplants the earlier 'K' range of camera phones. It is the flagship model in Sony Ericsson's range for ...

and

. The

iPod Touch The iPod Touch (stylized as iPod touch) is a discontinued line of iOS-based mobile devices designed and marketed by Apple Inc. with a touchscreen-controlled user interface. As with other iPod models, the iPod Touch can be used as a music pl ...

, a touchscreen device with the media and internet abilities and interface of the iPhone but without the ability to connect to a cellular network for phone functions or internet access, was released on September 5, 2007. At the same time, Apple significantly dropped the price of the 8 GB model (from $599 to $399, still requiring a 2-year contract with AT&T) while discontinuing the 4 GB model. Apple sold the one millionth iPhone five days later, or 74 days after the release. After receiving "hundreds of emails" upset about the price drop, Apple gave store credit to early adopters. A 16 GB model was released on February 5, 2008 for $499, the original launch price of the 4 GB model. Apple released an SDK on March 6, 2008, allowing developers to create the apps that would be available starting in iPhone OS version 2.0, a free upgrade for iPhone users. On June 9, Apple announced the

, which began shipping July 11. The original iPhone was discontinued on July 15; total sales volume came to 6,124,000 units.

Hardware

External hardware (screens, materials, etc)

The iPhone's back cover is made out of

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, a soft metal. The iPhone's screen is a 320x480 resolution LCD screen at 163 ppi that measures about 3.5 inches diagonally, much bigger than other phones at the time, and the iPhone was the first mobile phone with

technology. The rear camera on the iPhone has a resolution of 2

megapixels In digital imaging, a pixel (abbreviated px), pel, or picture element is the smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest point in an all points addressable display device. In most digital display devices, pixels are the smal ...

and also features

geotagging Geotagging, or GeoTagging, is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as a geotagged photograph or video, websites, SMS messages, QR Codes or RSS feeds and is a form of geospatial metadata. This data u ...

. The iPhone has four total buttons and a single switch: a power and sleep button, a volume up and volume down button, a silent/ringer switch, and a home button positioned in the bottom center of the face of the phone. The home button, when pressed, would send the user back to the

home screen A home screen, homescreen, or start screen, is the main screen on a device or computer program. Home screens are not identical because users rearrange icons as they please, and home screens often differ across mobile operating systems. Almost ...

from whatever app they were currently using.

Internal hardware (motherboard, system-on-chip, etc.)

The iPhone featured a

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ARM In human anatomy, the arm refers to the upper limb in common usage, although academically the term specifically means the upper arm between the glenohumeral joint (shoulder joint) and the elbow joint. The distal part of the upper limb between th ...

microprocessor A microprocessor is a computer processor where the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit, or a small number of integrated circuits. The microprocessor contains the arithmetic, logic, and control circu ...

underclocked Underclocking, also known as downclocking, is modifying a computer or electronic circuit's timing settings to run at a lower clock rate than is specified. Underclocking is used to reduce a computer's power consumption, increase battery life, redu ...

from its stock 620

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to a slower 412 MHz to increase battery life. The iPhone also included several sets of sensors, including an

accelerometer An accelerometer is a tool that measures proper acceleration. Proper acceleration is the acceleration (the rate of change of velocity) of a body in its own instantaneous rest frame; this is different from coordinate acceleration, which is accele ...

, a

proximity sensor A proximity sensor is a sensor able to detect the presence of nearby objects without any physical contact. A proximity sensor often emits an electromagnetic field or a beam of electromagnetic radiation (infrared, for instance), and looks for ...

, and an

ambient light sensor An ambient light sensor is a component in smartphones, notebooks, other mobile devices, automotive displays and LCD TVs. It is a photodetector that is used to sense the amount of ambient light present, and appropriately dim the device's screen to ...

. Similar to the

, the iPhone also featured a 3.5 millimetre auxiliary headphone jack. The phone also had a 3.7 V 1400 mAh Lithium-ion battery built in it.

Software

At the time of its unveiling in January, Steve Jobs claimed: "iPhone runs OS X" and runs "desktop-class applications", but at the time of the iPhone's release, the operating system was renamed "iPhone OS". The original iPhone supported three major versions of the operating system before it was discontinued:

iPhone OS 1 iPhone OS 1, commonly referred to as iOS 1, is the first major release of iOS, Apple's mobile operating system. No official name was given on its initial release; Apple marketing literature simply stated that the iPhone runs a version of Appl ...

, 2, and 3. The last update the original iPhone received was iPhone OS 3.1.3, as iPhone OS 3.2 was intended for the iPad.

Software history

The original operating system for the original iPhone,

, featured

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gestures,

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, Apple's

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web browser, threaded

text messaging Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters, between two or more users of mobile devices, desktops/laptops, or another type of compatible compute ...

, an "

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" music and video player app, a dedicated

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app and a Maps app powered by

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. It also included basic Phone/contacts, Calendar, Photos, Stocks, Weather, Clock, Calculator, Notes, and Settings apps. However, many features like

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, apps, and

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were not supported at release, leading hackers jailbreaking their phones to add these features. Software updates from Apple gradually added these functions. A v1.1 update alongside the introduction of the

in September 2007 included an

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app that was the first new app to be added to the system.

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was released on July 11, 2008, at the same time as the release of the

, and introduced Apple's

supporting native third-party applications, Microsoft Exchange support,

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, and other enhancements. iPhone OS 3 was released on June 17, 2009, alongside the

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, and introduced copy and paste functionality, Spotlight search for the

, and new features for the YouTube app. iPhone OS 3 was available for the original iPhone as well as the iPhone 3G and 3GS. However, not all features of iPhone OS 3 (like MMS in the Messages app) were supported on the original iPhone. iPhone OS 3.1.3 was the last version of iPhone OS (now

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) to be released for this phone in February 2010, which never got the full iPhone OS 3 feature set because iPhone OS 3.2 was intended for the iPad. Almost all apps released after the release of iOS 6 in late September 2012 do not run on the original iPhone, as the software development kit (SDK) was changed to no longer allow the "targeting" (minimum) of iOS versions older than 4.3 (including 3.x), or ARMv6 devices (first two generations).

Reception

The original iPhone received largely positive reviews. Only four writers were given review models of the original iPhone:

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of ''

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'',

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of ''

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'',

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of ''

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'', and

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of ''

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''. ''The New York Times'' and ''The Wall Street Journal'' published positive, but cautious, reviews of the iPhone, their primary criticisms being the relatively slow speed of the

's 2.5G

network and the phone's inability to connect using 3G services. ''The Wall Street Journal''s technology columnist, Walt Mossberg, concluded that "despite some flaws and feature omissions, the iPhone is, on balance, a beautiful and breakthrough handheld computer." ''

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'' magazine named it the Invention of the Year in 2007.

References

External links

* – official site {{Apple * iPhone 1 Mobile phones introduced in 2007 Computer-related introductions in 2007 Products and services discontinued in 2010 Discontinued flagship smartphones

History

Release

Post-release

Hardware

External hardware (screens, materials, etc)

Internal hardware (motherboard, system-on-chip, etc.)

Software

Software history

Reception

See also

References

External links