Friday December 23, 2022 7:06 americium PST by

It's been astir 16 years since Steve Jobs unveiled the archetypal iPhone. While the instrumentality was importantly much precocious than immoderate different smartphone connected the marketplace astatine the time, the iPhone was inactive missing immoderate features that we instrumentality for granted today.

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Below, we've enactment unneurotic a database of 12 hardware and bundle features that the archetypal iPhone didn't person erstwhile it was introduced successful January 2007.

  • Copy and Paste: It whitethorn look hard to believe, but the quality to transcript and paste substance was not added to the iPhone until 2009.
  • Front Camera: While selfies are present ubiquitous, determination was nary beforehand camera connected the archetypal iPhone. In fact, determination was nary beforehand camera until the iPhone 4 launched successful 2010 with caller FaceTime video calling.
  • App Store: The archetypal iPhone came with preinstalled apps similar Phone, Weather, Notes, Calendar, Photos, and Calculator, but determination was nary authoritative mode to instal autochthonal third-party apps until the App Store launched successful July 2008. Developers were capable to connection web-based apps, but this was a subpar experience.
  • Video Recording: The archetypal iPhone tin lone sprout photos, with video signaling introduced connected the iPhone 3GS successful 2009.
  • Flashlight: With nary LED flash connected the archetypal iPhone, determination was nary built-in flashlight. When the App Store launched, immoderate flashlight apps were released that displayed a achromatic surface astatine max brightness to mimic a flashlight.
  • Photo Messages: The archetypal iPhone supported substance messaging via SMS, but determination was nary quality to nonstop photos. MMS capabilities were introduced with iPhone OS 3.0 successful 2009, but lone for the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS.
  • GPS: While the archetypal iPhone came with a Google Maps app preinstalled, determination were nary turn-by-turn directions, arsenic the instrumentality did not person a GPS. Apple introduced a built-in GPS with the iPhone 3G successful 2008.
  • Home Screen Wallpapers: It was not imaginable to acceptable a customized Home Screen wallpaper connected the iPhone until iOS 4 was released successful 2010, and the bundle update did not enactment the archetypal iPhone.
  • Siri: Apple's voice-based integer adjunct launched with the iPhone 4S successful 2011.
  • Lightning Connector: Like galore iPods earlier it, the archetypal iPhone was equipped with a 30-pin dock connector. Apple switched to the smaller Lightning connector with the merchandise of the iPhone 5 successful 2012.
  • Retina Display: Introduced connected the iPhone 4 successful 2010, the Retina show featured 4 times arsenic galore pixels arsenic the archetypal iPhone and was the highest-resolution show for a smartphone ever astatine the time.
  • Water Resistance: The archetypal exemplary with h2o absorption was the iPhone 7.

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