The first iPhone

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The touchscreen smartphone changed mobile technology for ever. It was unveiled on January 9th 2007 by the Apple boss Steve Jobs. Within a few years smartphones had changed the way billions of people lived their lives. Ashley Byrne has been speaking to Andy Grignon a senior developer on the project.

(Photo: Steve Jobs at the iPhone launch in San Francisco in 2007. Credit: David Paul Morris/Getty Images)

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0:00.0	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.
0:04.7	My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.
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0:37.0	You're listening to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:46.0	All this week we've been bringing you past programs to mark some of the milestones
0:51.0	in the development of computing and the internet that have
0:54.4	enabled so many of us to work from home, me included. Today we're going back to
1:00.0	2007 and the launch of a brand new product that kick started a revolution in
1:06.2	communication the iPhone. Ashley Byrne spoke to Andy Grignon who was a senior
1:11.8	engineer on the project to develop the iPhone for Apple.
1:15.8	This program was first broadcast in 2018.
1:18.9	In January 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs took to the stage in San Francisco to show off a new device
1:26.0	that would go on to impact the lives of millions across the globe and
1:30.0	introduce the world to the smartphone as we know it today.
1:33.7	An iPod, a phone.
1:37.0	Are you getting it?
1:41.0	This is one device and we are calling it iPhone. With its innovative
1:49.8	touch screen user-friendly interface and sleek design. The iPhone was a one-stop shop for multimedia.
1:56.1	It could play music, take pictures, stream video and connect to the internet.
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