11, 2011 that it would now carry the iPhone 4. Perhaps the biggest change came when Verizon Wireless announced on Jan. Although the white version of the phone was also slated for a June 2010 release, it was delayed until April 2011.Īside from boosting the phone's processor, camera and video capabilities, Apple also gave its fourth model a makeover, flattening the phone's curved back and slimming its sides to create the sleekest iPhone yet. When it was first announced on June 15, 2010, Apple and AT&T said they took 600,000 preorders in the first 24 hours - so many that it caused their online ordering system to crash. Quicklist: 5category: iPhone 4 title: June 24, 2010: iPhone 4media: 14659747url: text: Steve Jobs said the iPhone 4 would be "the biggest leap since the original iPhone." The 3GS promised to perform "twice as fast as the iPhone 3G" - after all, the "S" stood for "speed." Over 1 million units were sold within the first three days of going on sale.Ģ009 was also the same year Apple launched its "There's an app for that" ad campaign, and its now-famous App Store.įeatures added: up to 32 GB of storage, 833 MHz processor, 3.0-megapixal camera that includes video recording, digital compass, voice control, Nike+.ĭebut price: $199 and $299 for the 16 GB and 32 GB, respectively, with cell carrier contract for new and qualifying customers $599 and $699 for the 16 GB and 32 GB without a contract. Quicklist: 4category: iPhone, Third Version title: June 19, 2009: iPhone 3GSurl: media: 14659718 text: "Better, faster, stronger," Apple could have easily lifted those Kanye West lyrics for their press release announcing the coming of the iPhone 3GS in 2009.
Iphone iconical upgrade#
With the debut of the iPhone 3G, the company offered its new operating system upgrade - iPhone 2.0 firmware - for the original unit for free.Īdditional features added: thinner edges, assisted GPS.ĭebut price: $199 and $299 for the 8 GB and 16 GB phones, respectively, with cell carrier contract $599 and $699 without a contract. When the original iPhone 16 GB model debuted in February 2008, it was priced at $499, but was dropped to $399 within two months.Įarly-bird customers who paid the higher prices up front were outraged, and Apple took their criticisms to heart. Just 10 weeks after the original iPhone's release on June 29, 2007, Apple dropped the price from $599 to $399 for the 8 GB model. All that came in one sleek, lightweight package.Īpple made some tweaks to its 3G unit, but one of the biggest was to its price. Touted as "major breakthrough" in cellphone technology, the first iPhone combined Apple's immensely popular mp3 player, the iPod, with smartphone capabilities: surfing the Internet, checking email, playing movies, messaging friends and - oh, yeah - making phone calls. Lines snaked around Apple stores across the country as people waited for the phone.
The revolution of the smartphone (and the obsessive, franic buyers' need to have one) started with typical Apple fanfare.Īpple debuted the iPhone at the Macworld convention in January 2007, but in keeping with the company's traditional secrecy, it didn't announce the phone's public release date until J- remember the "Mmm, did someone say calamari" ad? The iPhone was then released in stores on June 29, 2007. Quicklist: 2category: iPhone 1title: June 29, 2007: iPhone Debutsurl: media: 14659695text: And so it begins. Looking at iPhone from its not-so humble beginnings, it's difficult to imagine what we would have done without access to Google Maps, Angry Birds, iBooks, Fruit Ninja, Instagram, Facebook, Pandora, and FaceTime, at the flick of our fingers and in the palm of our hands.
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