The history of the iPhone began with a request from Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs to the company's engineers, asking them to investigate the use of touchscreen devices and tablet computers
(which later came to fruition with the iPad). Many have noted the device's similarities to Apple's previous touch-screen portable device, the Newton MessagePad.
Like the MessagePad, the iPhone is nearly all screen. Its form factor is credited to Apple's Chief Design Officer, Jonathan Ive.The iPhone beta however was created
in 2004 to test its ability towards commands of the Apple team and was called the first iPhone ever but was never released to the public so it was not considered as the main
first iPhone. After trials and errors the iPhone was officially launched and accessible to the public in 2007 which was the first iPhone advertised noticeably at the Macworld 2007.
In the beginning the iPhone was accessible in the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Finland, France, Spain, Italy and South Africa.
Jobs expressed his belief that tablet PCs and traditional PDAs were not good choices as high-demand markets for Apple to enter, despite receiving many requests for Apple to create
another PDA. He believed that cell phones were going to become important devices for portable information access, and that mobile phones needed to have excellent synchronization
software. At that time, instead of focusing on a follow-up to their Newton PDA, Jobs had Apple focus on the iPod. Jobs also had Apple develop the iTunes software, which can be used
to synchronize content with iPod devices. iTunes was released in January 2001.n September 7, 2005, Apple and Motorola released the ROKR E1, the first mobile phone
to use iTunes. Jobs was unhappy with the ROKR, feeling that having to compromise with a non-Apple designer (Motorola) prevented Apple from designing the phone they wanted to make.
The iPhone that was launched in 2004 was a starting point for Apple to learn more about the phone’s capabilities before the public.
In September 2006, Apple discontinued support for
the ROKR, and released a version of iTunes that included references to an as-yet unknown mobile phone that could display pictures and video.
On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone at the Macworld convention, receiving substantial media attention.Jobs announced that the first iPhone would be
released later that year. On June 29, 2007, the first iPhone was released.On June 11, 2007, Apple announced at the Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference that the iPhone
would support third-party applications using the Safari engine. Third parties would be able to create Web 2.0 applications, which users could access via the Internet.Such
applications appeared even before the release of the iPhone; the first of these, called OneTrip, was a program meant to keep track of users' shopping lists.On June 29, 2007,
Apple released version 7.3 of iTunes to coincide with the release of iPhone.his release contains support for iPhone service activation and syncing.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the iPhone is manufactured in the Shenzhen factory of the Taiwanese company Hon Hai (also known as Foxconn).Also, according to
recent news, Apple will shortly begin outsourcing the manufacturing of iPhones.
The first-generation iPhone is commonly retroactively referred to as the "iPhone 2G" due to only supporting 2G mobile data. This name was, however, never used by Apple.