Friday, July 26, 2013

iPhone history

In recent time the most valuable and demand able thing is iPhone .The iPhone  is a smartphones designed and marketed by Apple inc.six year ago in june 29 ,2007- was the first time that anyone other than Steve Jobs and a handful of Apple employees got their hands on an iPhone.
But in 2004 when Apple started to gather a team of 1000 employees to work on the highly confidential “Project Purple”, including Sir Jonathan ive the designer behind the iPhone.Apple CEO Steve jobs steered the original focus away from a tablet, like the iPad and towards a phone.Apple created the device during a secretive collaboration with AT & Mobility Cingular Wireless at the time—at an estimated development cost of US$150 million over thirty months.
The 1st generation iPhone was made available in the UK, France, and Germany in November 2007, and Ireland and Austria in the spring of 2008
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There are six generations of iPhone models, each accompanied by one of the six major releases of iOS. The original 1st generation iPhone was a GSM phone, and established design precedents, such as a button placement that has persisted through all models and a screen size maintained until the launch of the iPhone5 in 2012. The iPhone 3G added 3G cellular network capabilities and . The iPhone 3GS added a faster  processor and a higher-resolution camera that could record video at 480p. The IPhone 4 featured a higher-resolution 960 × 640 “retina display”, a VGA front-facing camera for video calling and other apps, and a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera with 720p video capture. The iPhone 4s upgrades to an 8-megapixel camera with 108p video recording, a dual-core processor, and a natural language voice control system called siri. iPhone 5 features the new A6 processor, increases the size of the Retina display to 4 inches, and replaces the 30-pin connector with an all-digital Lightning connector.
The resounding sales of the iPhone have been credited with reshaping the smartphone industry and helping make Apple one of the world’s most valuable publicly trading companies in 2011–12.
  • Release date of iphone
    1st gen: June 29, 2007
    3G: July 11, 2008
    3GS: June 19, 2009
    4: June 24, 2010
    4S: October 14, 2011
    5: September 21, 2012
    UNITS SOLD250 million

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