The First iPhone
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2018
⏱️ 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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| 0:29.2 | Hello, you're listening to the Witness Podcast, History as told by the people who were there. |
| 0:34.7 | I'm Ashley Byrne and today I'm taking you back to 2007 and the launch of a |
| 0:39.6 | brand new product that would kick-start a revolution in communication and social interaction |
| 0:44.8 | all around the world. |
| 0:46.6 | I've been speaking to Andy Grinyon, senior engineer on the project, about his memories |
| 0:51.8 | of the birth of the iPhone. |
| 0:54.0 | It was the first time people, you know, had seen what we've been toiling away, you know, for years on. |
| 0:59.0 | And just to see their reactions was incredible. |
| 1:01.0 | In January 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs took to the stage in |
| 1:05.6 | San Francisco to show off a new device that would go on to impact the lives of |
| 1:10.0 | millions across the globe and introduce the world to the smartphone as we know it today. |
| 1:16.0 | An iPod, a phone. |
| 1:20.0 | Are you getting it? This is one device and we are calling it iPhone. |
| 1:30.0 | With its innovative touch screen user-friendly interface and sleek design, the iPhone was a one-stop |
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