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Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone

2017-01-09
today we're introducing three revolutionary products of this class the first one is a widescreen iPod with touch controls the second is a revolutionary mobile and the third is a breakthrough internet communications device so three things a widescreen iPod with touch controls a revolutionary mobile phone and a breakthrough internet communications device an iPod a phone and an Internet communicator an iPod a phone these are not three separate devices this is one device and we are calling it iPhone today today Apple is going to reinvent the phone and here it is now so we're gonna reinvent the phone now we're gonna start with a revolutionary user interface is the result of years of research and development and of course it's an interplay of hardware and software now why do we need a revolutionary user interface I mean here's four smartphones right Motorola Q the BlackBerry palm treo nokia e62 the usual suspects and what's wrong with their user interface as well the problem with them is really sort of in the bottom 40 there it's it's this stuff right here they all have these keyboards that are there whether you need them or not to be there so how are we going to take this to a mobile device but what we're gonna do is get rid of all these buttons and just make a giant screen a giant screen now how are we gonna communicate this we don't want to carry around a mouse right so what are we gonna do Oh a stylus right we're gonna use a stylus No who wants a stylus you have to get them and put them away and you'll lose them yeah nobody wants a stylus so let's not use a stylus we're gonna use the best pointing device in the world we're gonna use a pointing device that we're all born with were born with ten of them we'll use our fingers we're going to touch us with our fingers and we have invented a new technology called multi-touch which is phenomenal it works like magic you don't need a stylus it's far more accurate than any touch display that's ever been shipped it ignores unintended touches it's super smart you can do multi-finger gestures on it and boy have we patented it this is what it looks like it's got a three and a half inch screen on it it's really big and it's the highest resolution screen we've ever shipped it's a hundred and sixty pixels per inch highest we've ever shipped it's gorgeous and on the front there's only one button down there we call it the home button it takes you home from wherever you are and that's it let's look at the back on the back the biggest thing of note is we got a two megapixel camera built right in the other side and we're back on the front so let's take a look at the top now we've got a headset jack three-and-a-half millimeter all your iPod headphones fit right in we've got a place a little tray for your SIM card and we've got one switch for sleep and wake just push it to go to sleep push its wake up and we're gonna do it again with the iPhone in 2007 we're very excited about this
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