2007 smartphone by Apple

Record 001 · Electronics · 2007

67%07.01.E

Apple iPhone (1st generation)

Apple

“The product that turned the phone into the default computer of daily life.”

Steve Jobs framed it as three products in one — widescreen iPod, phone, and internet communicator. Multi-touch, a real mobile browser, and later the App Store collapsed cameras, music players, GPS, and PCs into a slab people already carried.

Highest combined cultural, economic, and interface impact of any consumer product in the 21st century.

3+ billion iPhones across the line by mid-2020s

Official site
  • Capacitive multi-touch as primary UI
  • Full mobile Safari browser
  • Visual voicemail
  • App Store (2008) as software distribution

This is only the beginning.