The original release of the operating system included Visual Voicemail, multi-touch gestures, HTML email, Sari web browser, threaded text messaging, and YouTube. However, many features like MMS, apps, and copy and paste were not supported at release. These missing features led to hackers jailbreaking their phones which added these missing features. Official software updates slowly added these features.

Apple released an SDK on March 6, 2008, allowing developers to create the apps that would be available starting in iPhone OS version 2.0, a free upgrade for iPhone users. On June 9, Apple announced the iPhone 3G, which began shipping July 11.

During release, the iPhone was marketed as running OS X. The name of the operating system was revealed as iPhone OS with the release of the iPhone SDK. So r, Apple has released 6 major software versions for the iPhone, including the one bundled with original iPhone units and three major versions (iPhone OS 1, 2, and 3) for the original iPhone, but software updates for the original and 3G iPhones have been discontinued.

It was later made available in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany Spain Portugal and the Republic of Ireland and Austria in November 2007.

Unlike the iPhone 3G, the original iPhone did not receive the iOS 4 update. iPhone OS 3.1.3 was the last version of iPhone OS (now iOS) to be released for the original iPhone.

While most Apple literature simply called the device iPhone, the term the original iPhone appears in a press release from July 2010.

Apple created the device during a secretive and unprecedented collaboration with AT& revolutionary mobile phone; and a breakthrough Internet communicator.

Six out of ten Americans surveyed said they knew the iPhone was coming before its release.

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iPhone OS 2.0, released July 11, 2008, iPhone, introduced third-party applications, exchange support,new york asian escorts push e-mail, and other enhancements.

The iPhone was released on June 29, 2007 in the United States where thousands of people were reported to have waited outside Apple and AT&p>with many stores reporting stock shortages within an hour. To avoid repeating the problems of the PlayStation 3 launch, which caused burglaries and even a shooting, off-duty policeiPhone (1st generation officers were hired to guard stores overnight.

When Jobs reviewed the prototype and its user intece, he conceived a second idea of implementing the technology onto a mobile phone.

iPhone OS 3.0, released June 17, 2009, introduced copy and paste, Spotlight search for the Home Screen, and new YouTube features. Not all of the features of iPhone OS 3.0 were supported on the original iPhone.

The iPod Touch, a touchscreen device with the media and internet abilities and intece of the iPhone, but without the ability to connect to a cellular network for phone functions or internet access, was released on September 5, 2007. At the same time, Apple significantly dropped the price of the 8 GB model while discontinuing the 4 GB model.

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

Released February2,2010) OS no longer supported by Apple; third party operating systems available

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The iPhone (retroactively labeled the original iPhone, iPhone 1) 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

It was introduced in the United States on June 29, 2007. It featured cellular connectivity with GPRS and EDGE support for data transfer.

After receiPhoneiving hundreds of emails...upset about the price drop, Apple gave store credit to early adopters.

The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal published positive, but cautious, reviews of the iPhone, their primary criticisms being the relatively slow speed of the AT&ara Swisher (June 2, 2010). D8: Steve Jobs on the iPhones Origin. All Things Digital. Event occurs at 0:20.

Steve Jobs, the CEO at Apple Inc., conceived an idea of using a to interact with a computer in a way in which he could type directly onto the display, essentially removing the physical keyboard and mouse, the same as a tablet computer. Jobs recruited a group of Apple engineers to investigate the idea as a side project.