See what the very first one looked like iPhone from 1998

Maybe you are the majority Apple fans think that it was the apple company that came up with the popular "i" before each name of its product, which has become so popular and distinctive. But that's not entirely true, because the first phone, which was called iPhone arrived on the market in 1998 and only 9 years later introduced its iPhone také Apple.

The first telephone called iPhone It was from Cisco, which is still a major player in the field of network elements, and in 1998 it acquired Infogear, which introduced the very first iPhone in the world with a touch screen. Thanks to the acquisition, Infogear became part of Cisco and therefore also iPhone became a Cisco product. It is also interesting that Infogear introduced its first iPhone in the same year when Apple introduced the first iMac, a computer on which he had already worked again Steve Jobs after his return to Applu and used the famous "i" at the beginning of its name for the first time.

However, Cisco's iPhone continued to develop, as you can see in the photos below, and it actually became a mobile phone similar to today's. But after a while, Cisco stopped iPhone proto give and took the opportunity Apple. You might be wondering how that is possible right now Apple could use the name iPhone, when in fact Cisco had it for almost the same product. The catch was that Cisco no longer used the name and Apple so he could use it.

nakonec but the name iPhone led to a lawsuit between the two companies, where Cisco used the photo you can see below to prove that it still owned the name iPhone uses. Conflict nakonec ended up in such a way that both companies agreed to cooperate in using the name iPhone for some future product. But we all know that this promise is notonec was not fulfilled at all and Apple presents only its own iPhones, on which it does not cooperate with any other company.

And a few more photos of Cisco's iPhone: