The history of the iPhone began when Steve Jobs became CEO for Apple Inc. It was under Steve Jobs’ direction that the engineers of the company started investigating touch screens and its mechanisms. At the time, the company was considering making tablet PCs which later on became the infamous iPad we have today. Before the iPad was born however there came the iPhone, but before that Apple had to develop a synchronization mechanism first to make everything digitalized i.e. when it synchronization when it comes to music, communication, and other software that we use on a daily basis. This also includes synchronization through the internet and getting games on your iPhone.

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Newton MessagePad: The iPhone’s Predecessor

Many experts have noted that there are similarities between the iPhone and Apple’s other touch screen portable device –the Newton MessagePad. Much like the Newton, iPhone operate mainly on screen i.e. there is no need for buttons for you to send messages to friends. The touch screen and form factor is credited to Jonathan Ive.

Origins of the iPhone

At the executive conference of All Things Digital, Jobs expressed what he felt about tablet PCs and PDAs as not very apt choices for Apple to produce despite many requests for the company to produce another PDA. Jobs however said that cell phones were going to become rather popular not only because they are uber cool devices but because they will become a necessity. This was of course in 2003 and we can see today that everybody have cell phones.  So at the time, the company focused its energies on making an excellent synchronization software which were later on used for all iPhones and other Apple products.

When the iPhone was already ready for release, its first advertisement called “Hello” was aired in early 2007 on ABC.