Exactly 15 years ago, Steve Jobs introduced the first Apple iPhone: remember what it was

Today, we can say, Apple has a holiday - exactly 15 years ago, Cupertinos 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've been looking forward to this for two and a half years,” Jobs admitted at the time.

He presented the iPhone as a combination of three devices at once: "widescreen iPod with touch control", "revolutionary mobile phone" and "disruptive internet communicator". The main feature is the "multitouch" function - the touch screen recognizes several simultaneous touches. For example, now no modern gadget is complete without the usual possibility of increasing the desired fragment of a photo and video by information-breeding fingers.

And although Time magazine called the iPhone an invention of 2007, it deserved a lot of criticism. Most importantly, it did not support 3G networks (only 2G). Most interestingly, the smartphone did not have such modern goods as the App Store (the store was launched in July 2008), a clipboard, a front camera (it appeared on Apple smartphones in 2010, and FaceTime debuted in the iPhone 4), video recording, Gps, flashlight, Siri (the voice assistant appeared with the iPhone 4S in 2011) etc.

Despite the fact that the official announcement took place at the beginning of the year, the iPhone went on sale only in the summer. A few days in front of the store, queues lined up, which still 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.