{"id":733253,"date":"2026-06-29T17:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/733253\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:35:09","slug":"this-day-in-history-first-iphone-went-on-sale-19-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/733253\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in History: First iPhone went on sale 19 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) &#8211; On June 29, 2007, Apple put the first iPhone on sale, a device that would change how people communicate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the iPhone was three products in one: a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod and an internet communication device.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The entry-level model sold for $499 and had four gigabytes of storage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/newsletter\/\">Click here<\/a> to sign up for our newsletter!<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfpc96d0EDHinF_AovDBi4RNoKbBfRbCIJiTWqF7p1VNE6ZNA\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> to report a spelling or grammar error. Please include the headline.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WMC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) &#8211; On June 29, 2007, Apple put the first iPhone on sale, a device that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[517,25058,4,25057,309392,45821,25053,25056,25051,4536,13840,25050,25055,165,25054,25059,3590,7240,25049,25060,74,25061,25052,25046,25048,25047],"class_list":["post-733253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-apple","tag-bartlett","tag-breaking-news","tag-collierville","tag-communicate","tag-commute","tag-east-arkansas","tag-germantown","tag-i-40","tag-iphone","tag-memphis","tag-mid-south","tag-missouri-boothill","tag-mobile","tag-north-mississippi","tag-olive-branch","tag-people","tag-sale","tag-severe-weather","tag-southaven","tag-technology","tag-west-memphis","tag-west-tennessee","tag-wmc-action-news-5","tag-wmc5","tag-wmctv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}