“Today, Apple will reinvent the phone.” this is how it started Steve Jobs presentation iphone the original was 16 years ago, in 2007. And my son did. It has completely changed the world of technology and also our lives.

Telephones used to be cell phones; now they are smartphones; earlier cell phones had a small black and white screen; Today, smartphones have huge full color touch screens. That day is history. And not just the history of technology, but the history of humanity.

HE IS January 9, 2007 Steve Jobs took the stage macworld fair In San Francisco (California), it introduced the world to its small and futuristic – at the time – original iPhone and operating system iPhoneOS. Today, 16 years later, we honor that little smartphone that changed our lives.

Presentation of the original iPhone

Steve Jobs, as he himself stated, “has been waiting for that day for 2 and a half years” and made a magnificent presentation. That was it. It was time to change human history. With a serious and focused face, Steve Jobs presented his little technological jewel, the original iPhone. He even had the luxury of ordering 4,000 coffees! latte by phone! By the way, a little joke about Starbucks that is still being made today.

You can see the full presentation of the iPhone (with subtitles enabled) in the video below on Juan Carlos Villacorta’s channel:

The iPhone has evolved a lot since that iconic presentation, and so has the operating system.

The first iPhone in history, screen multi touch 3.5 inch with LCD technology, 2 megapixel camera and aluminum and plastic casing. The latest generation iPhone devices today have screens up to 6.7 inches with OLED technology, cameras up to 48 megapixels and are made of stainless steel.

In addition, you have software functions that we could not have imagined would be implemented in an iPhone, such as Touch ID fingerprint recognition, Face ID facial recognition, cinema mode, water resistance, 120 Hz refresh rate, 5G connectivity. So we can go on all afternoon.

As attendees at the iPhone presentation squeal when they see how Steve Jobs enlarges a photo… Think about how everything has changed since then. Wild.

no doubt, The birth of the iPhone was a very special day And as technology lovers, we can feel very lucky to be able to experience and enjoy the technological advancement in the smartphone industry. When we look at the past, we can only say one thing… A magnificent future awaits us.