i Phone

i Phone announced in January 2007 and eagerly awaited the Apple. iPhone could play music, take photographs, browse the internet, send e-mail, play moves and store up to 8 gigabytes of information, it also had WiFi capabilities, a calculator, calendar and notepad and operated via a nifty touch-screen mechanism. And it could make a telephone call.

                    1 Gen. iPhone image 2007

With it's large screen and lack of buttons and sleek appearance that iPhone stood out in design terms alone - unlike it's competitor, it did not look like a phone. What is more the touch- screen was designed to operated by a finger, so it was no longer necessary to find the stylus required by other models.

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However the iPhone did not perform as well as expected, with Apple taking only a 5 percent share of the worldwide smartphone market. This was a large part due to the initial retail price of $599, later reduced to $399, much to the annoyance of early purchasers.

In July 2008 Apple released it's new, improved, and cheaper iPhone 3G, which could exploit the faster 3G networks. As for the inventor of the iPhone Apple's CEO Steve Jobs heads the author list of the patent, although many Apple employees were involved. iPhone 1 was introduced with AT&T as the sole proprietor in the beginning, announced at the December 9 the on 2007 just it was called iPhone that's it.

Jobs unveiled the iPhone to the public on January 9, 2007, at the Macworld 2007 convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The two initial models, a 4 GB model priced at US$499 and an 8 GB model at US$599 (both requiring a two-year contract), went on sale in the United States on June 29, 2007, at 6:00 pm local time, while hundreds of customers lined up outside the stores nationwide. The passionate reaction to the launch of the iPhone resulted in sections of the media dubbing it the 'Jesus phone'. Following this successful release in the US, the first generation iPhone was made available in the UK, France, and Germany in November 2007, and Ireland and Austria in the spring of 2008.

Worldwide iPhone availability:

  iPhone available since its original release

  iPhone available since the release of iPhone 3G

  Coming soon

On July 11, 2008, Apple released the iPhone 3G in twenty-two countries, including the original six. Apple released the iPhone 3G in upwards of eighty countries and territories.Apple announced the iPhone 3GS on June 8, 2009, along with plans to release it later in June, July, and August, starting with the US, Canada and major European countries on June 19. Manwould-be users objected to the iPhone's cost,^[ and 40% of users had household incomes over US$100,000.

The back of the original first-generation iPhone was made of aluminum with a black plastic accent. The iPhone 3G and 3GS feature a full plastic back to increase the strength of the GSM signal. The iPhone 3G was available in an 8 GB black model, or a black or white option for the 16 GB model. The iPhone 3GS was available in both colors, regardless of storage capacity.

The iPhone 4 has an aluminosilicate glass front and back with a stainless steel edge that serves as the antennas. It was at first available in black; the white version was announced, but not released until April 2011, 10 months later.