<P> On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs announced iPhone at the Macworld convention, receiving substantial media attention . Jobs announced that the first iPhone would be released later that year . On June 29, 2007, the first iPhone was released . </P> <P> On June 11, 2007, Apple announced at the Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference that the iPhone would support third - party applications using the Safari engine . Third parties would be able to create Web 2.0 applications, which users could access via the internet . Such applications appeared even before the release of the iPhone; the first of these, called OneTrip, was a program meant to keep track of users' shopping lists . On June 29, 2007, Apple released version 7.3 of iTunes to coincide with the release of iPhone . This release contains support for iPhone service activation and syncing . </P> <P> According to The Wall Street Journal, the iPhone is manufactured in the Shenzhen factory of the Taiwanese company Hon Hai (also known as Foxconn). Also, according to recent news, Apple will shortly begin outsourcing the manufacturing of iPhones . </P> <P> When Apple announced the iPhone on January 9, 2007, it was sold only with AT&T (formerly Cingular) contracts in the United States . After 18 months of negotiations, Steve Jobs reached an agreement with the wireless division of AT&T to be the iPhone's exclusive carrier . Consumers were unable to use any other carrier without unlocking their device . </P>

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