iPhone

The iPhone is a high-end multimedia-enabled smartphone, designed by Apple Inc, the makers of such products as the iPod. Unlike other smartphones, such as the Blackberry, the manufacturer of the iPhone is behind marketing, design, and specification too. The very first phone to be released was in 2007, and after months of rumour and speculation on blogs and websites, Apple finally announced the product on January 9th 2007.
The ‘original’ iPhone was then introduced to the United States market on June 29th of the same year, and shipping and marketing in Europe began soon after. The very first version of the iPhone featured quad-band GSM with EDGE technology and Time Magazine named it the, ‘Invention of the Year’ in 2007, much to the delight of the manufacturer. However, Apple’s developers set straight to work, and soon had another, updated and improved model, shipping worldwide. On July 11th 2008, the iPhone 3G was released to world-wide audiences. The phone supported faster 3G data speeds via UMTS with 3.6 Mpbs HSDPA and assisted GPS, and soon after, Apple released version 3.0 of the iPhone OS operating system to compliment the new model. The iPhone 3GS, which was released in the US, Canada, and six European Countries on June 19th 2009, and in Australia and Japan on June 26th, was even faster than its predecessor. The original iPhone then became discontinued with the introduction of the iPhone 3G, which remains available.