A RARE, FACTORY-SEALED, 8GB FIRST GENERATION APPLE IPHꦗONE

At the MacWorld Conference on January 9^th, 2007, Steve Jobs remarked, "Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone." The iPhone had been a project several years in the making — one that utilized Apple’s top engineers to reimagine what we know as the smartphone. Coming out of the secret "Project Purple 2" was a phone built to prioritize the user experience and present the best of Apple's existing systems. In recognition of the importance of new products such as the iPhone to the future of the company, Jobs also announced the renaming of Apple Computer, Inc. to Apple Inc. at the 2007 MacWorld Conference and, on June 29^th, 2007, the company released the high𒅌ly anticipated iPhone to the 🐽public.

Complete with a 3.5-inch LCD display and 2 megapixel camera, the first generation iPhone allowed users to access music, videos, email, and the internet at the touch of their fingertips. The iPꦑhone vastly improved upon previous models of the iPod with its novel multi-touch touchscreen display. Running on the same OS X operating system as Mac computers, this first generation iPhone came with 8GB of storage and originally retailed for $♑599. 

The sleek appearance of Apple's iPhone would beat out its competitors’ models that were still burdened with keyboards and various buttons, and Time Magazine would name the iPhone the “Invention of the Year” for 2007. Apple would go on to create newer models of the iPhone and discontinued the first generation of the iPhone only a year after its release. Factory-sealed in its original packaging and complete with accessories, this first generation iPhone is a symbol of innovation, not only in ജtechnology but in꧑ how we interact with each other.