On this day, January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs, then the head of Apple at that time, presented the company’s first phone, the iPhone, at the Macworld Expo. The name of the device was formed from two words: phone (from the English word phone) and Internet (respectively, internet). Hardly anyone (and even Jobs himself) then could have imagined that within a decade and a half, this device would define new trends in the industry and, as a result, become a cult.
The novelty went on sale on June 29, 2007 and quickly gained popularity: already in the first year (and, in fact, only half a year) Apple sold 6.1 million iPhones. The first iPhone had an aluminum back and a plastic cover at the bottom that hid the GSM, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth antennas. It did not support 3G, because of which there was a lot of criticism against Apple, but users dealt with the lack of MMS support themselves using an unofficial application. The base model had 4GB of flash memory and was offered in the US for $ 500. There was also a variant with 8 GB for $ 600, and later a version with 16 GB of internal memory came out.
Officially, the iPhone came to Russia a year later – already in the form of a second-generation model of the iPhone 3G, more modern, with iPhone OS 2.0.
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