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History of the iPhone Development of the iPhone began in 2020 with Apple CEO Steve Jobs39。 direction that Apple engineers investigate also steered the original focus away from a tablet, like the iPad, and towards a phone. Apple created the device during a secretive collaboration with ATamp。T Mobility—Cingular Wireless at the time—at an estimated development cost of US$150 million over thirty months. Apple rejected the design by mittee approach that had yielded the Motorola ROKR E1, a largely unsuccessful collaboration with Motorola. Instead, Cingular gave Apple the liberty to develop the iPhone39。s hardware and software inhouse and even paid Apple a fraction of its monthly service revenue (until the iPhone 3G),in exchange for four years of exclusive . sales, until 2020. Jobs unveiled the iPhone to the public on January 9, 2020, at the Macworld 2020 convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The iPhone went on sale in the United States on June 29, 2020, at 6:00 pm local time, while hundreds of customers lined up outside the stores passionate reaction to the launch of the iPhone resulted in sections of the media christening it the 39。Jesus phone39。. The original iPhone was made available in the UK, France, and Germany in November 2020, and Ireland and Austria in the spring of 2020. Worldwide iPhone availability: iPhone was available since its original release iPhone was available since the release of iPhone 3G Coming soon On July 11, 2020, Apple released the iPhone 3G in twentytwo countries, including the original six. Apple released the iPhone 3G in upwards of eighty countries and territories. Apple announced the iPhone 3GS on June 8, 2020, along with plans to release it later in June, July, and August, starting with the