History of the iPhone
The iPhone began with Steve Jobs direction at Apple, where he instructed Engineers to investigate touch-screens. At the time Apple had been investigating working on tablet PC’s. Jobs believed as far back as 2003 that mobile phone were going to become important devices for portable information access.
The iPhone was first introduced in January 2007 at the Macworld conferance by Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
The first advert for the iPhone, titled “Hello,” aired during the Oscars on February 25, 2007 on and featured clips from several notable films and television shows over the last seventy years, showing iconic characters answering telephones and saying “hello” or a similar greeting. The iPhone is shown at the end with the caption “Hello. Coming in June.”
The iPhone was launched in the United States on June 29, 2007 . It is made under contract by a Taiwan-based company. The price today for an 8-gigabyte model is US$399. Later on, Apple eventually became available in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France and is now (Dec 2009) becomin available in other areas of the world.
The iPhone has gone on to be the world’s fastest-selling mobile phone, and with the App Store offering over 15,000 applications for downloading, it’s customisable too.
Multi-touch technology means the iPhone 3G is ideal for browsing the web, looking at photos and using the GPS, with the 3G internet speeds ensuring pages load just as fast as your home broadband. Available in 8GB or 16GB storage capacities, users can store thousands of photos taken on the 2.0-megapixel camera, tens of thousands of iPod music and up to 20 hours of video.
The Apple iPhone is a small and light device with multimedia capabilities and a touch screen enables the user to input information through a virtual keyboard and function buttons. It also has great features, such as a camera, a media player (much like the “iPod”), and the other usual functions that allow visual voicemail and text messaging. The Internet services that can be done through the iPhone include web browsing, e-mail and Wi-Fi connectivity.
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