Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the first-generation iPhone on January 9, 2007 and it was later released on June 29, 2007. Basically, this was Apple coming out with its very own phone and demonstrating how a smartphone should be done.
This OS initiated an era where most phones consisted resistive touchscreens, some physical buttons and its user interface was pretty ugly with the introduction of iPhone OS 1 had a breakthrough multi-touch interface, beautiful designs a very simple gesture based navigation. Though Spartan compared to today, this important release was the foundation upon which the most widely-adopted mobile OS in the world would be built.
Innovative UI: Multi-Touch & Ease of Use
What set iPhone OS 1 truly apart, however, was its groundbreaking interface.
Pinch-to-zoom, swipe-to-scroll
Yet, it lacks a stylus and physical keyboard (everything is done with the fingers), just like when it made its first appearance in the iPhone.
A home_screen with app icons, the smooth animations that are a completely touch-based experience you never seen before.
Included core apps such as:
Phone
Safari (full web browser)
iPod (music and video player)
Messages (SMS only, no MMS)
Camera and PhotosYouTube
This minimalist design and silky smooth user experience has not only changed the way people use smartphones, but has also set a new standard in the industry.
Safari — the complete web in a pocket
The most transformative of these was a full web browser, Safari:
Generated web pages formatted for the desktop rather than a mobile-friendly version.
It was one of the earliest browsers to support zooming through multi-touch gestures, bookmark and tab-based browsing.
It lacked Flash, but it was already years ahead of Blackberry and Windows Mobile in terms of performance and support for standards.
The real Internet in your pocket as Steve Jobs famously declared, and it mostly was.
Mail, iPod, and Phone Integration
At first, these were three things in one device:§
Phone is simple but well designed, complete with its traditional dumb dialer, a visual voicemail screen (as sorely as we wanted for Google Voice) and your standard address book and call log.
All-Athematic-ipod Audio-player with Coverflow (to see album covers), video songs and playlists A touch-based rethink on the iPod interface.
E-mail: IMAP4/POP3 email support, HTML email, attachments can be viewed — not edited.
Suddenly, the easy integration practices were used to make not just an all-in-one ‘smartphone’ on paper, but in real life.
No App Store (Yet)
One of the biggest limitations of the original version of iPhone OS (1.0) was that it did not provide any third-party apps cancer for several years.
Apple still had not released an SDK, and was basically saying that there would be no native third-party apps.
Apple even encouraged developers to build web apps for Safari instead of native apps.
The decision was widely panned by customers that spurred a strong jailbreaking community to create custom apps, games and personal system tweaks for an iOS device.
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Missing Features (by Today’s Standards)
While it was revolutionary, iPhone OS 1 had plenty to be left on the cutting room floor.
No copy and paste
No MMS or video recording
No background apps or multitasking
No file system access
No wallpaper customization
No App Store
Exchange/Enterprise Feature Partial Support
GPS No, uses cell tower triangulation and Wi -Fi positioning instead
These are admittedly a shame but they were traded for improved overall polish and flow of the interface, a trade that many early adopters more than happy to make.
iPhone OS 1.1.x Updates
Bits and Bobs Yesterday afternoon Apple posted an iPhone firmware update, promising a few minor bug fixes.
iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store (1.1.1)
Custom ringtones
Double-tap Home button for shortcuts
Better security and stability
All these iterative updates also allowed apple to refine the base for major release, which came 1 years after iPhone OS 2 went public.
Device Compatibility
The first iPhone (2G) was also limited to running iPhone OS 1.
Unveiled in September, 2007 and available a month later, the iPod touch was nothing more nor less than an iPhone that had been neutered in terms of calling ability, etc.
In Summary
I mean, the first iPhone OS was a whole new thing in mobile computing. The phone offered a touch-first interface, strong visual design, and tightly integrated functionality for phone, media, and internet in a single device. It was a barely recognizable version of the feature-rich environment we live in today, but it paved the way for future developments, like app stores, mobile web and more.
It was the start of something much bigger — a platformization that would eventually be matured and used to power billions of devices around the world.
