Invented the iPhone, Apple has acquired the status of the main innovator of the smartphone market and is now forced to comply - the world every year waiting for her brand-new products, or at least little techno-revolution. Although, in recent years it has become fashionable to abuse a California corporation for the lack of high-profile premieres and what the company should market trends, and more does not create them. However, every new iPhone model has previous sales records.
The main innovation in the iPhone 6 is expected to be increased to 4.7 and 5.5-inch display size. But this evolution is sure to be a favorite slogan match Apple - «best iPhone ever invented." How to change Apple smartphone from model to model, observers tracked Forbes.
First iPhone
Year: 2007
In January 2007, Steve Jobs made a revolution by introducing the scene a new device Apple - Smartphone iPhone. At that time it was not the first touch screen phone, but it is there all the control was carried out with your fingers rather than a stylus: dialing and text messaging, management applications, flipping through photos. Screen respond to touch unquestioningly.
To avoid false pressing his ear to the sensor during a conversation, the iPhone was built in proximity sensor that makes the screen inactive for the duration of the call. This technology has also been used for the first time.
The lack of buttons on the phone caused frank skepticism on the part of competitors. But 7 million units sold at the price of $ 500-600 showed that users appreciated the new format.
But there were also disadvantages: iPhone, for example, could not send MMS or delete one SMS-message without deleting the entire history of correspondence.
iPhone 3G
Year: 2008
The main innovation of the second version of the iPhone - network support 3G, which was not in the first model.
To exit the iPhone 3G, who replaced the aluminum case on the plastic, Apple updated the operating system to a version of iPhone OS 2, in which there was one of the major creations of the company - Store App Store. Through it, you can download music and applications directly to your phone without connecting it to your computer. Now in the shop for more than a billion different programs.
In two years, sales iPhone 3G (2008 and 2010) have been implemented in five times more devices than the first model - 35 million. New version of the iPhone was already available in two colors - black and white, but flaws remain - for example, the smartphone could not shoot video.
iPhone 3Gs
Year: 2009
Fully preserving the appearance of the predecessor, iPhone 3Gs has been radically updated inside. The smartphone has become literally "fly" (due to a new type of processor Cortex-A8 600 MHz), there is support for multitasking. It was then that began to appear the first "heavy" games, and iPhones have declared themselves as novice competitors PlayStation Portable (Sony PSP, Nintendo DS).
Game features also added a new sensor-akselometr who responded to the slopes of the smartphone and its position in space. Developers actively used new technology to control game characters.
Was radically improved camera smartphone, the opportunity to recognize the voice commands, the screen began to transmit more saturated colors and got grease repellent coating. "High-speed» iPhone 3Gs («s» mean speed) sold at its predecessor - in two years 35 million pieces.
iPhone 4
Year: 2010
The fourth model of iPhone developers decided to radically re-design. About the new look of the smartphone public learned about two months before the premiere: journalists found allegedly forgot the test sample in one of the bars. Apple suspected that she arranged this action deliberately - to evaluate the response to the new design.
Front and rear panels of the new iPhone were made of aluminosilicate glass, has become more powerful processor, the camera now has a resolution of 5 megapixels. It was first used Retina-display with a resolution of 960 × 640 pixels - at that time the highest. Then, Apple renamed the iPhone OS in the usual iOS.
Immediately after the start of sales showed a problem: the smartphone would lose signal when gripped his hand. The first buyers of Apple as compensation even bestowed special bumpers (which were supposed to sell for $ 30).
Despite the fact that the first batch of smartphones problems were identified with the antenna around the world, has sold 50 million iPhone 4.
iPhone 4S
Year: 2011
This represented the iPhone is not Steve Jobs, and replaced it by Tim Cook. The very next day after the presentation of iPhone 4s, Steve Jobs died.
iPhone 4s - a slight reinterpretation of its predecessor. The main difference is the speed in the staff was more powerful processor and more RAM. Plus traditional for each new generation has been improved camera module, which has become an 8-megapixel. Appeared and voice assistant Siri and the option of acting as a router Wi-Fi.
As a result, iPhone 4s sold out in the world in the amount of 60 million units. However, it is still possible to buy in retail stores Apple.
iPhone 5
Year: 2012
Apple long hesitated to increase the display at their smartphones all generations were equipped with 3.5-inch screens. But the iPhone 5 tradition was broken, he got a screen with a diagonal of 4 inches. In addition, Apple has redesigned and design, returning to aluminum and significantly thinned and facilitating smartphone.
In addition to the visual upgrade and the usual annual improvements "innards" (CPU, RAM) iPhone 5 got a brand new connector for charging Lightning.
Updates was enough to "five" became the best-selling smartphone Apple - one year it sold nearly 100 million copies. In this case, it was a product with the shortest life cycle: a year Apple has removed from the production model.
iPhone 5s
Year: 2013
At this time, Apple did not chase the trend and decided not to increase the screen. Design smartphone is not different from its predecessor, but traditionally it has been improved "brains". Apple has applied the first vendors in the mobile gadget 64-bit processors A7, which affected the speed of the application and the user interface.
Furthermore, iPhone 5s was added an additional coprocessor M7, which monitors the movement and is responsible for the operation of the gyroscope and accelerometer.Imposition of functions under the control of the movement of a separate processor needed to offload the main processor and improved power consumption. Another of the innovations - the sensor fingerprint reading and double flash.
Together with the launch of iPhone 5s radically updated operating system. iOS 7 came out with a fundamentally new "flat" design, and almost a hundred augmentations. However, breakthrough solutions not helped 5s overtake sales of any of its predecessor, or even 4s.As of June 2014, according to Western analysts, has sold only 52 million units.
iPhone 5c
Year: 2013
In 2013, Apple unveiled on one presentation just two iPhone: with 5s version was presented and 5c. In fact, the company is packed with the previous model in the plastic housing, adding to this a wide range of colors - white, blue, green, yellow and pink.
Analysts said such a move, Apple has to withstand the avalanche budget smartphone platform Android. However the price of iPhone 5c was not so budget that affected sales. As of June 2014, has sold about 16 million different color iPhones.