Although the iPhone is identified all over the world with the Apple company, it should still be mentioned that it was not the people from Cupertino who brought the first phone under the iPhone brand to the market, InfoGear having the idea of selling such an electronic product in the USA in 1998.
InfoGear promoted the product as a touchscreen phone that is able to connect to the Internet, similar marketing was used by Apple in 2007, and although we are talking about an office phone, it was quite advanced for the time in which appeared on the market.
The first iPhone had a screen with a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels, it had to be used with a stylus, but it had a QWERTY keyboard that allowed the entry of texts and numbers, while providing access to browsing the Internet or checking the e-mail box, its 2 MB RAM memory can save approximately 200 email addresses.
The first iPhone was sold at the price of 500 dollars in the USA, and users had to pay between 10 dollars and 20 dollars to benefit from an Internet connection, but for that year the phone was technologically advanced, the selling price being close to that of the first Apple phone.
InfoGear launched a second iPhone model in 1999, this one with a new design, but unfortunately sales were not up to expectations, so that same year the production of these devices was stopped, the company being compared by Cisco Systems to the beginning of the 2000s.
Since 2006 Cisco has used the name iPhone for a phone called Linksys iPhone, and in 2007 it sued Apple for using the same name for its first smartphone, the iPhone, the two companies agreeing to settle the case out of court .
Although at that time Apple and Cisco agreed that both companies would be able to use the name iPhone for their products, only those from Cupertino used it and will continue to do so.
