The iPhone is 5 years old: a look back at the history of a phone that changed our habits

Presented by Steve Jobs in January 2007
by Steve Jobs, the iPhone was released in the US on June 29, 2007. In 5 years, the iPhone has
disrupted the mobile phone market bringing us its share of
novelties.

iPhone, iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4 and 4S this anniversary is an opportunity to return
5 years back to follow the evolution of our favorite Smartphone.

L’iPhone Edge

It all started during this Keynote in January 2007 during which Steve
jobs in person presented a revolutionary device.
Both PDA, web browser, portable music player and so on
, the iPhone was a
real UFO equipped withand
mysterious Multitouch screen.
.

However, at the outset, the least we can say is that
the iPhone was not unanimous
et
some didn't believe it at all.
.

However, from the start, the iPhone made a lot of talk about it creating
and
buzz never seen on the net
. While it will beavailable
in June in the US
, you will have to wait until29
November 2007
to see it arrive in France only at
Orange which holds the exclusivity
.

When it was released all over the world, the iPhone caused queues
endless like
here in Lille
,Montpellier
orNantes.
And the success has only just begun.

L’iPhone 3G

June 2008, while the iPhone was about to blow out its first candle, the
WWDC 2008 is an opportunity for Apple toannounce
l’iPhone 3G
and with it the App Store and MobileMe and the arrival of the model
white. In one year, no less than 6 million iPhones have been
sold.

Ebay Sega and many others will follow to offer on this store
of application the apps that we know today.

From now on
the iPhone supports 3G and has…a GPS chip.

The machine is launched. Although it was released in July3
million units were already sold in August.
despitestock shortagesrecords from
launch.

It is only inFEBRUARY
2009 that Orange
will lose the exclusivity of the iPhone and that all operators
will start distributing it.

L’iPhone 3GS

It's now almost a tradition, the month of June is coming
rumors around the new iPhone
are getting stronger and stronger then
that the keynote is to be held on June 8 in San Francisco.

End of May of the same year
your favorite site published its application for the first time on the App
Store
.

This iPhone 3GS announcement keynote was full of new features. At this
moment, 40 million iPhones occupied our pockets and the AppStore had 50
000 apps. iOS 3 had just seen the light of day bringing: copy/paste,
landscape mode,Find
my iPhone
,
Voice Control
et…les In-App Purchase.

It is also at this time that
Tom Tom presented the first GPS app
for iPhone.

Victim of its success, the iPhone 3G which three years later is still in
sale, quicklyfound
broken.

L’iPhone 4

As the iPhone user community grows the buzz around the
phone panics whenand
prototype forgotten in a bar
ends up in the hands of the site
Gizmodo.

We will have to wait for the conferenceWWDC 2010to realize that he
was indeed what Apple will call theiPhone
4
.

April 8, 2010 took place
the presentation keynote
of the iPhone OS 4. With it, Apple brings to
iPhone multitasking, app folders, iAd, wallpapers and a
hundred other new features.


June 7, 2010, Apple prepares to present to the assembled developers' assembly
in San Francisco, its brand new iPhone 4
which will be launched on June 24. He
will be available in black and
in white
(even if we know today that the white model will be made
wait) take a 5 MP camera and especially for the first
times: a Retina screen. It is also the first time that we hear
talk about iOS.

During this conference faceTime is launched. It is also at this time
thatApple
presents its Bumper.

While this iPhone is a great success (1,7
million sold in 3 days
, reception problems are starting to occur
talk on the web. This is the start of the antenna gate which will bring
Apple to offer a case to every iPhone 4 owner.

L’iPhone 4S

While like every year, rumors run wild on the Web, surprise, at
WWDC 2011 no iPhone, but only
the presentation of iOS 5
and its
200 new features
.

iOS 5this is the arrival
iCloud, OTA updates, Photo Stream, iMessage, Reminder and
well ofothers
novelties
in our iPhones.

We will have to wait until October 4 to discover with desire for certain
and disappointment for others,l’iPhone
4S
and its mysteriousSiri. 2
days later,
Steve Jobs, the father of the iPhone will leave us

Despite the disappointment of some, the iPhone 4S will also wina huge
success
.

And now ?

At the beginning of the month, Apple presented iOS 6 and we are expecting an iPhone 5 with a
bigger screen for fall. In 5 years, the iPhone has become THE Smartphone
to bring down for its competitors who continue to compete in ingenuity to
try to surpass him.

See you at the start of the school year to turn a new page in the history of
the iPhone with the next model.

What do you remember from these 5 years?

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By : Keleops AG