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The iPhone [5] (retroactively referred to as the iPhone 2G [6] or iPhone 1 [7]) is the first iPhone model and the first smartphone developed and marketed by Apple Inc. After years of rumors and speculation, it was officially announced on January 9, 2007, [ 8 ] and was released in the United States on June 29, 2007.
Such applications appeared even before the release of the iPhone; the first of these, called OneTrip, was a program meant to keep track of users' shopping lists. [35] On June 29, 2007, the first iPhone was released. [36] The iPod Touch, which came with an iPhone-style touchscreen to the iPod range, was also released later in 2007.
Jobs unveiled the first-generation iPhone to the public on January 9, 2007, at the Macworld 2007 convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. [14] The iPhone incorporated a 3.5-inch multi-touch display with few hardware buttons, and ran the iPhone OS operating system with a touch-friendly interface, then marketed as a version of Mac OS X ...
During this time, Apple released the iPhone 5, the first iPhone to have a screen larger than 3.5", [194] the iPod Touch 5 with a 4" screen, the iPhone 5S with fingerprint scanning technology in the form of Touch ID, and iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, with screens at 4.7" and 5.5".
After the success of the Apple I, Wozniak designed the Apple II, the first personal computer with the ability to display color graphics, and BASIC programming language built in. [5] Inspired by "the technique Atari used to simulate colors on its first arcade games", Wozniak found a way of putting colors into the NTSC system by using a US$1 chip ...
"R" was used to denote the lower-priced iPhone XR, which is the only iPhone with "R" in its name. Similarly, "C" was used to denote the lower-priced iPhone 5C, a variant of the iPhone 5 with similar features and internals, and is the only iPhone with "C" in its name. The "SE" used in the entry-level iPhone SE line stands for "Special Edition".
The first official logo of Apple Inc. was used from 1977 to 1998. [188] According to Steve Jobs, the company's name was inspired by his visit to an apple farm while on a fruitarian diet. [189] Apple's first logo, designed by Ron Wayne, depicts Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree.
The first smartphone with a fingerprint reader was the Motorola Atrix 4G in 2011. [160] In September 2013, the iPhone 5S was unveiled as the first smartphone on a major U.S. carrier since the Atrix to feature this technology. [161] Once again, the iPhone popularized this concept.