Apple released the first iPhone in 2007, introducing a touchscreen smartphone that reshaped the mobile-phone industry.
Apple unveiled the device on January 9, 2007, at the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. It combined a mobile phone, an iPod, and an internet communicator in one product, using a multi-touch interface rather than a physical keyboard.
The original iPhone went on sale in the United States on June 29, 2007. It initially worked only with AT&T in the United States and was available with 4 GB and 8 GB of storage. The product helped Apple expand from computers and music players into mobile technology.
A common mix-up is confusing the announcement date with the retail launch date: both occurred in 2007, but the announcement came months earlier. The first iPhone also lacked features later considered standard, including copy and paste and third-party native apps.