> "It was 4G that gave us the smartphone." The iPhone was released in June 2007, more than 3 years before the first LTE phone was released in November 2010. T

> "It was 4G that gave us the smartphone." The iPhone was released in June 2007, more than 3 years before the first LTE phone was released in November 2010. The iPhone wasn't the first smartphone, but it did kick off the smartphone boom. And it did it without even 3G; the original iPhone only supported 2G (despite widespread, but not universal, rollout of 3G in the USA).