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Apple Users

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts) Wed Jan 9, 2013, 04:36 AM Jan 2013

January 9, 2007 The first iPhone is announced by Steve Jobs

The iPhone (retroactively labeled the original iPhone, iPhone 1 or iPhone 2G) is a smartphone that was designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It is the first generation of iPhone and was announced on January 9, 2007[10] after months of rumors and speculation.[11]
It was introduced in the United States on June 29, 2007. It featured quad-band GSM cellular connectivity with GPRS and EDGE support for data transfer.
On June 9, 2008, Apple announced its successor, the iPhone 3G. The original iPhone no longer receives software updates from Apple; its final official firmware version was iPhone OS 3.1.3.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(original)