Steve Jobs unveils the first iPhone
On this day · 9 January 2007
In one keynote, Apple folded a phone, an iPod, and the internet into a single slab of glass—and rewrote how the world communicates.
On January 9, 2007, at the Macworld convention in San Francisco, Steve Jobs walked onstage and announced three new products: a widescreen iPod, a mobile phone, and an internet device. The punchline landed slowly—they were all one device.
Apple’s own announcement called the iPhone “a revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any other mobile phone.” Its defining feature was a large multi-touch display controlled entirely by fingers, with no stylus and almost no physical buttons.
The device did not ship until June 29, arriving in 4GB and 8GB models priced at $499 and $599. Initial reactions were skeptical; rivals dismissed the keyboard-free design.
They were wrong. The iPhone reshaped phones, software, photography, and the rhythms of daily life, seeding an app economy and a pocket-sized computing era that followed billions of people everywhere.
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