Something people tend to forget about the first iPhone is how neutered it was. It was launched onto the nearly obsolete EDGE network. Cingular/AT&T was still in the process of building out its 3G network, so for that first-generation phone, users had to make do with snail-like data speeds. The first iPhone also lacked a GPS sensor, so even though you could use mobile maps in the first iPhone, the experience wasn’t as seamless or accurate as it is today. The first iPhone couldn’t shoot video, and didn’t even have a front-facing camera, so the era of the “selfie” didn’t come into being until the
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