America's evolution of the telephone in pictures
From pay phones, flip phones to the Blackberry, nothing compared to that very first iPhone
![Apple CEO Steve Jobs talks about the Apple iPhone at the Apple World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Monday, June 11, 2007. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)](https://gdb.voanews.com/140a213f-dc5e-430e-8e21-f9fb4aec2bce_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs talks about the Apple iPhone at the Apple World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Monday, June 11, 2007. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
![Apple employees cheers as an excited customer leaves the Apple Store with his new iPhone Friday, June 29, 2007 in New York.](https://gdb.voanews.com/516f6946-fdce-4d06-a42a-be99a3948fa6_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Apple employees cheers as an excited customer leaves the Apple Store with his new iPhone Friday, June 29, 2007 in New York.
![New driver Brandi Eadie, 16, looks down at her cell phone to read a text message as she drives through a rubber-cone course in Seattle on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010 to demonstrate the dangers of phone use while driving. Eadie, who volunteered for the Driven](https://gdb.voanews.com/16582403-1e69-4c85-b7ae-7bbd82301592_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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New driver Brandi Eadie, 16, looks down at her cell phone to read a text message as she drives through a rubber-cone course in Seattle on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010 to demonstrate the dangers of phone use while driving. Eadie, who volunteered for the Driven
![President Barack Obama takes a "selfie" on stage with a a student from the ReNew Cultural Arts Academy, from New Orleans, during the White House Talent Show in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, May 20, 2014 in Washington. The talent show was host](https://gdb.voanews.com/db7d225d-aaa4-409e-843d-aef7f2e941c6_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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President Barack Obama takes a "selfie" on stage with a a student from the ReNew Cultural Arts Academy, from New Orleans, during the White House Talent Show in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, May 20, 2014 in Washington. The talent show was host