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.
After years of rumors and speculation, it was officially announced on January 9, 2007, and was released in the United States on June 29, 2007.ĭevelopment of the iPhone as a product began in 2005 and continued in complete secrecy until its public unveiling. The iPhone (retroactively referred to as the iPhone 2G, iPhone 1, or original iPhone ) is the first iPhone model and the first smartphone designed and marketed by Apple Inc.
