It looks like yesterday, though More than 15 years have passed since this myth One more thing by Steve Jobs when he unveiled the first iPhone at the Macworld Conference & Expo on January 9, 2007. It was the penultimate great announcement in the lead role with Jobs (iPad was still left), but we didn’t know it yet, that day we could only think that the world of mobile phones would change forever, although at that time many still thought that the phone without a physical keyboard he had no future.

However, it took almost six months for the amazing device presented by Jobs to reach the point of sale, something that happened on a day like today fifteen years ago. Relatively limited market entry, yes, because, unlike later models, it was only sold in the United States through AT&T, which greatly encouraged orders from friends and acquaintances traveling to the country at the time. stars and stripes.

So it was an extremely limited edition, probably raised as a test of the customization that the iPhone should have on the market. And just what I mentioned earlier, the absence of a keyboard, may now sound surprising, but at the time and for many it was a complicated barrier to entry. We were used to buttons phones “forever” (10-15 years ago), and although we had already seen some experiment with a touch screen or stylus, it was too strange to remove it completely.

WITH 3.5-inch display with a resolution of 320 x 480 pixelsthe specifications of the first seen iPhone now look like a joke: 412 megahertz CPU, 128 megabytes of RAMof four gigabytes of storage, a two-megapixel camera … but again, it’s important to realize that we’re talking about a device 15 years ago, and that these specifications, which would be unacceptable today in a terminal less than 100 euros, were simply spectacular at the time .

The first iPhone would last on the market for a little over a year, from the second generation, The iPhone 3G went on sale on July 30, 2008 and on that occasion, as a much broader launch, once Apple was able to verify that they had succeeded with the design and that the iPhone had already become the object of desire of millions of people around the world at its debut. world.

What followed is history, and you know it for sure. Today, it is rare to see a week in which at least one rumor related to the next generation of iPhone does not appear, and although criticized by many, it still has a huge legion of users and defenders who do not hesitate to declare four winds to be the best smartphone on the market.