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Did you know... that the original iPhone was named the Invention of the Year by Time magazine?

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Hardware

There is nothing about the hardware for this phone. I believe there should be two seperate areas in the article that talk about the phones hardware. One that talks about the buttons, screen, and camera and another that talks about the phone's internal hardware. If just one part talks about all the hardware, then that should be sufficient. SneaselxLv94 (talk) 02:34, 30 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relevant discussion

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:PlayStation (console) which is relevant to this page. Thank you. Marcus Qwertyus 23:45, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No camera data

I didn't see any kind of information on the specifications of original iPhone camera. Can someone who knows it can add it, please? bladez (talk) 13:15, 15 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Steve Jobs really?

This (awkward) sentence: "Steve Jobs, CEO at Apple Inc., conceived an idea of using a multi-touch touchscreen 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." essentially says that Steve Jobs invented the virtual/onscreen keyboard. Really??? Doubtful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.27.226.98 (talk) 16:26, 3 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. also "In 2005, Apple CEO Steve Jobs envisioned an Apple touchscreen product that the user could interact with directly with their fingers rather than using a stylus" sounds like a statement made by one of Apple's fanboys. Its technically true, but only because he envisioned it as an apple product, and not the concept of a touchscreen itself, which had been envisioned decades ago by other people and implemented by other people as well. It not really a relevant statement, and should at the least be toned down considerably in terms of its biased tone. Its also lacks any source. It could very well be not true and just something an Apple user thought must be the case since Steve Jobs in their mind has been responsible for every technological advancement since the 70s. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.77.179.10 (talk) 17:09, 25 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Seriously Wikiepdia

Steve Jobs did not concieve of a touch screen concept! Nokia had a touchscreen phone years before the iphone. This is VERY SLOPPY Wikipedia! Fix this! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.73.88.73 (talk) 19:55, 2 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The iPhone was the first phone to use a MULTI-touch interface(something all modern phones now have). But of course regular old touchscreen phones existed long before iPhone. TruthZero (talk) 21:32, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

IBM Simon says hi from 1993 also. https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/IBM_Simon I agree the article makes it seem like steve jobs invented touch computers and phones, while it doesnt outright say it, these devices existed long before he "conceived" them in his mind. 24.61.67.38 (talk) 15:08, 17 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

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The result of the proposal was move per request.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:18, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

IPhone (original) → IPhone (1st generation) – Conveniently matches iPad (1st generation), (3rd) and (4th). Apple might also go with its Macbook naming convention at some point for the iPhone. Marcus Qwertyus (talk) 02:38, 13 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support this one is almost too obvious Hot Stop (Talk) 04:53, 13 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Less ambiguous title. (technically, couldn't the Newton be the first "iPhone"?) (X! · talk) · @066 · 00:35, 14 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Suppost - straightforward and makes common sense Tiggerjay (talk) 04:53, 14 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed move (which ordinal?)

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:26, 23 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

IPhone (1st generation) → iPhone (first generation) – The iPad series was recently moved to spelled out ordinals (e.g. iPad (first generation), iPad (third generation), iPad (fourth generation)). I have no opinion about which is the common name but spelled out is recommended by WP:ORDINAL, and is preferred in AP Style (up to nine) and Chicago Style (up to ninety-nine). The first-generation iPhone is more of a straight-forward case than the iPad situation since Apple identifies the two later iPad generations as "3rd," and "4th"; the original iPhone is not identified at all on its website as far as I can tell. Marcus Qwertyus (talk) 07:59, 16 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support I guess Red Slash 00:39, 20 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Why is everything say 1968 on this page, is it vandalism or programming error ?

Why is everything say 1968 on this page, is it vandalism or programming error ? Spike82 (talk) 03:49, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It was vandalism. Thanks for pointing it out. Calidum ^{Talk To Me} 03:56, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Discontinued Ability to Connect to iTunes?

Hi, it seems that Apple discontinued the ability to connect first gen iphones to iTunes.... I've looked and looked online and couldn't find anything that approaches WP:RS to support this--so it's just a personal observation. Maybe some iPhone cultees can verify better than I? If so, it would be appropriate to put in the article. --108.45.56.173 (talk) 20:03, 15 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Possible vandalism.

On the page it says that the Iphone was released on January 18th 2018. I will fix it myself but i wanted to warn anyone following this page of any potential vandalism.Tamblingb (talk) 20:55, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Colloquial names

Of the various "colloquial" names listed in the lede, only "iPhone 2G" should be kept. The rest—"first-generation iPhone", "iPhone (original)", and "iPhone 1"—are very common or obvious terms that do not need to be mentioned. For instance, Star Wars (film) doesn't mention the obvious fact that it is sometimes referred to as "the original Star Wars", nor does iPhone mention the obvious fact that it is sometimes referred to as "Apple iPhone". InfiniteNexus (talk) 00:08, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Veracity of a statement

A section of the article claims that "The iPhone was the first handheld device to combine a multimedia player, telephone, and internet browsing capability on a touchscreen display."

However, the LG Prada seems to fit the description too, being released before the iPhone. NiceWikiEditor5 (talk) 23:27, 15 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. I suggest we edit to "one of the first", or the like, while maintaining the fact that the iPhone was the most successful. LG Prada was introduced Dec. 2006, and the iPhone in Jan. 2007, which is not far off. Many argue the IBM Simon was the first, but that didn't have true internet/app functionality. --Curivity (talk) 20:24, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Is it 1-gen IPhone?

I wonder if this is an IPhone and whether it's a 1st gen one. Профессор кислых щей (talk) 10:12, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Профессор кислых щей: The top bar in the image shows '3G', to which the original iPhone didn't have, this it either a iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS. -- AxG / ✉ 15:30, 2 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I referred to this device as an "early" IPhone instead. Профессор кислых щей (talk) 07:26, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Reception

When the original iPhone was released, the major criticism was that it didn't have the (already ubiquitous) 3G connectivity of other smartphones, which was seen as an unusual choice for a device sold on internet consumption. The article makes a brief mention of one Telco's slow 2.5G network but doesn't explicitly mention the absence of 3G from what I can see.

Would anyone with a more engaging writing style care to add? 146.199.8.40 (talk) 12:36, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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