History of iPhones

Development of an Apple smartphone began in 2004, when Apple started to gather a team of 1,000 employees led by hardware engineer, software engineer, and design officer to work on the highly confidential "Project Purple".

Then-Apple CEO Steve Jobs steered the original focus away from a tablet (which was later revisited in the form of the) towards a phone.^[] uApple created the device during a secretive collaboration with (later renamed at an estimated development cost of US$150 million over thirty months.^[10] According to Jobs in 1998, the "i" word in "iMac" (and thereafter "iPod", "iPhone" and "iPad") stands for internet, individual, instruct, inform, and inspire.^[11][12]

Apple rejected the "design by committee" approach that had yielded the Motorola ROKR E1, a largely unsuccessful "iTunes phone" made in collaboration with Motorola. Among other deficiencies, the ROKR E1's firmware limited storage to only 100 iTunessongs to avoid competing with Apple'sCingular gave Apple the liberty to develop the iPhone's hardware and software in-house, a rare practice at the time,^[and paid Apple a fraction of its monthly service revenue (until the iPhone 3G),^[] in exchange for four years of exclusive U.S. sales, until 2011.

Jobs unveiled theto the public on January 9, 2007, at the 2007 convention at the in San Francisco.^[] The iPhone incorporated a 3.5-inchdisplay with few hardware buttons, and ran the operating system with a touch-friendly interface, then marketed as a version of It launched on June 29, 2007, at a starting price of US$499 in the United States, and required a two-year contract with AT&T.^[21] I am writhing a blog about iPhones because is fascinating technology has become especially with phones. the iPhone made it easy to get online. Other “smart” devices of the time had access to mobile data, but they often couldn’t access full websites. Even those that did have a simple browser had to be operated with a clunky stylus or keypad. Unlike those devices, the iPhone could access the real web, taking one of the first steps towards turning the internet into something we accessed at home, that we could take anywhere with us.