nowadays people have a dizzying array of
smartphones to pick from none of which are more prominent than the iPhone but
wasn't it just yesterday that flip phones dominated the market actually no
it's been nearly a decade and in that time the device that Mr jobs assured us
had been patented up down and sideways has evolved alongside other developments
in Mobile technology to become very very
different so let's take a little Journey Through Time shall we the first iPhone
launched exclusively on AT&T for $500
for a 4 gig or $600 for8 gigs of storage
in 2007 brought some very important new
features to the table that ended up being a major influence on the entire
industry first interaction with the iPhone became almost completely
touchbased a big change as most smartphones of the era had some kind of
physical keyboard attached to them the the original iPhone was also one of the
first multi-touch devices meaning that it could register multiple fingers at
once enabling features like pinch to zoom users were additionally treated to
a web browser that could access the full web albeit at cellular data speeds a
breakthrough at the time since most web enabled phones back then could only
access specially designed sites and were shut off from most regular web pages the
very next iPhone the iPhone 3G was launched just over a a year later and
alleviated two of the main pain points of the original you guessed it 3G
network speeds and prices dropped to start at $200 on contract Apple followed
this one up with the iPhone 3GS a performance upgrade with a 32 gig option
before rolling out the iPhone 4 whose big feature aside from the use of more
premium glass and aluminum materials instead of plastic in its construction
and the end of AT&T exclusivity was the
concept of a retina display Apple's
marketing term that they still use heavily today for a display with pixels
that are IND discernible from each other at a normal operating distance a huge
improvement over the pixelated junk screens that were common on mobile
devices up until that point this was also the point where we first saw a
front-facing camera on the iPhone enabling FaceTime chats and For Better
or For Worse self-portraits or selfies
they followed this up with the 4S variant which was faster the S is for
Speed had 1080p video recording a 64 gig
option for storing it and Siri Apple's
sometimes Woody Voice Assistant but notably at the time no LTE data support
know that along with a much better camera a lighter aluminum body and a
longer wider aspect ratio screen arrived
with the iPhone 5 I guess Apple Maps also showed up around this time but that
was seen by many as a rushed out mistake
and speaking of mistakes the Next Generation 5S was accompanied For the
First Time by a second body option a
plastic value iPhone the 5c we'll ignore
that though just like everyone did and focus on the 5S which brought
fingerprint verification to the mainstream with Touch ID as well as a
gold finish for people who care about the bling bling characteristics that it
shares with the iPhone 6 that replaced it and finally addressed Apple's users
desire for more storage and larger screens with both the 4.7 in standard
and 5.5 in plus model available in up to
128 GB capacities not to mention slow-mo
video capture at 240 FPS and nearfield
communication supporting Apple pay which brings us finally then to the latest
model the iPhone 6s whose primary Innovations are that it can Rec reced up
to 4K video to its Lightning Fast NVMe
based onboard storage and 3D touch which
allows the screen to distinguish hard presses versus soft presses and execute
different actions accordingly what a journey right it sure has been but even
though the iPhone has come a really long way in just 8 years a number of common
criticisms remain even now the base iPhone has a mere 16 gabt of storage
which especially now that iOS has grown
over its nine iterations is simply not
enough and apple still gives their users
no way to insert an SD card for additional storage and although Apple's
Innovation on most iPhones has been well received they have been slow to adopt
some of the features commonly found on competing Android handsets such as 1440p
or 4K screens on top of that the iPhone
also keeps its reputation for being a close environment that discourages
tinkering and self-repair with all that said though
the iPhone is probably going to remain a Mainstay on the smartphone scene for a
very long time meaning that shouting matches between Apple and Android fans
in comment sections just like what is probably below me here aren't going
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