Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone on January 9th 2007 during Apple's annual MacWorld conference. Almost nine years before a company called InfoGear released a product called the iPhone. InfoGear was later acquired by Cisco.
The unit was run by a 16-bit processor and carried 1mb of memory. It needed to be connected to a wired infrastructure.
The Infogear iPhone shared many similarities in concept as the Apple’s iPhone. The goal was to have a user friendly that can do many things. Ability to make phone calls, tap icons on a touch screen and being able to access web related content.
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