Apple unveils the iPhone
Touchscreen and web in a pocket — the smartphone age
On 9 January 2007 Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone, a phone with a large multi-touch screen and a full web browser. Smartphones soon became the main device for communication, media and work for billions of people.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 2008 Global financial crisis — 1 year later
Europe
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — 18 years earlier
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — 18 years earlier
- 1992 Maastricht Treaty — 15 years earlier
- 2002 Euro notes and coins — 5 years earlier
- 2012 Discovery of the Higgs boson — 5 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1985–1991 Perestroika — 22 years earlier
- 1986 Chernobyl disaster — 21 years earlier
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989 — 18 years earlier
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union — 16 years earlier
Middle East
- 1990–1991 Gulf War — 17 years earlier
Africa
- 1983–1985 The Ethiopian famine — 24 years earlier
- 1994 End of apartheid in South Africa — 13 years earlier
Asia
- 1984 Bhopal disaster — 23 years earlier
- 1989 Tiananmen Square protests — 18 years earlier
- 1991 Eruption of Mount Pinatubo — 16 years earlier
- 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami — 3 years earlier
- 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami — 4 years later
Oceania
- 1992 The Mabo decision — 15 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Nelson Mandela (aged 89)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 77)
- Edmund Hillary (aged 88)
- Jimmy Carter (aged 83)
- Fidel Castro (aged 81)
- Elizabeth II (aged 81)
- Gabriel García Márquez (aged 80)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (aged 76)
- Boris Yeltsin (aged 76)
- Pelé (aged 67)