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  The First iPhone             The first iPhone came out on June 29 in 2007, going for a whopping $500 original retail price. A revolutionary new product with a touch display instead of buttons took the world by storm. In the race for the newest and best phone on the market Apple completely changed the game by making the new best thing to be buttonless phones that can also take photos. By November of 2007 there had already been 1.4 million sold grossing around $700,000,000 in revenue in only a couple months. Needless to say, the phone was a hit. 5 years after the release of the iPhone around 200 million had been sold sending Apple far past their competition at the time. After their initial success Apple has been making iPhones almost every year with the exception of a few. The iPhone 2 and iPhone 9 were never made with this generation being skipped entirely and they are now up to their 12 th generation with the iPhone 12 Pro Max. With the increased rate of innovation, it is not hard

  Media Law and Literacy Project Key Post             Technology through the years has evolved in such a way that it has allowed us to evolve as a society good and bad. Something that was once seen as science fiction or even impossible could just as easily be here today. Almost 50 years ago, the very first mobile phone call was made on the DynaTAC “Brick” phone weighing in at 2 ½ pounds and almost the size of the shoe box. The call was made to a rival phone company, AT&T, by Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive after a long-standing competition to be first.             With the first phone being not very convenient or efficient, with a 10-hour charge time, the race for innovation was on. 16 years later, the 3210 by Nokia was shown to the public and ever since then it has been a very harsh competition back and forth. Much faster than the last invention, 5 years later we get the 2004 blackberry we all know and love. One of the more modern phones that we know of this