Storiascopio · Era 12 of 12 · lower secondary year 3
The modern smartphone
2007 · San Francisco, United States
In short
There were already mobile phones you could read email on, but they had small keyboards and tiny screens. On 9 January 2007, in San Francisco, Steve Jobs presented the iPhone, a phone with hardly any buttons and a large screen to touch with your fingers. The following year app stores arrived, along with the first phones running Android. Within a few years the smartphone had become a camera, map, music player and pocket computer for billions of people.
Why it matters It has changed the way we communicate and find things out, and it also teaches us to be careful with screen time.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, “iPhone”
Where we are in the era “Today”
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Your turn
Name ______________________ Class ______ Date __________
When did it happen? Find the date at the top and write it here:
Tell it in your own words: what happened?
Draw the scene below.
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