What was the general response to the first iPhone's launch?
I waited in line for 10 hours on iDay to spend $600 on a new 8Gb iPhone.I used to say "I hate it, but it's still the best phone on the market."Still true today, but I hate it less. With the 4th generation the device became what it had always meant to be.Of course the impact the iPhone had on the market was truly revolutionary. Ever since the iPhone came out, everyone was looking for that "iPhone killer." And boy how did companies try to create those killers. Then Google provided the closest thing. Today, you either have an iPhone or an android. If you don't then you really are missing out on something that defines this day and age. It's almost like living in this society and not knowing how to use a computer. The touchscreen smartphone is that important today. And it started with that iPhone 1.0.EDIT: stupid iPhone. 10 hours, not 20. Blasted keyboard.
What was first phone without keyboard and when did it came out?
The first touchscreen phone was the IBM Simon, launched in 1992. During this decade the popular iPaq (not made by Apple by the way) was launched with touchscreens and optional phone attachments. HTC, the leader in touchscreen phones up until the iPhone and makers of phones like the Nexus One launched their first touchscreen phone, the HTC Wallaby aka XDA in 2002. Apple did actually make a concept for a touchscreen phone (not a mobile, a regular landline phone) way back in 1984!
Which year was the iPhone first released?
The first iphone was launched 10 years ago below is the list of all iphones released dates.1st gen: June 29, 20073G: July 11, 20083GS: June 19, 20094: June 24, 20104S: October 14, 20115: September 21, 20125C, 5S: September 20, 20136 / 6 Plus: September 19, 20146S / 6S Plus: September 25, 2015SE: March 31, 20167 / 7 Plus: September 16, 2016
What countries to target first when launching an iPhone App?
The best way to start with this is to look at the features of the app and do some research into where the features that are used are popular or the target audience is high for your product.For example if you was selling a Satellite Navigation App then you could do some research into where the highest number of satellite navigation systems are generally sold and target the highest areas first.A good idea to work out the demand for your features is to use google with country specific results selected. Use the region options in the advanced search (http://www.google.co.uk/advanced...) to see if your target application features are a big thing in those regions.Another method you could use is to simply launch your app at all markets and use a system such as Distimo (http://www.distimo.com/) to see where your App is getting an initial fast respsonse (based Apple displaying your app in the 'New Releases' section of the AppStore).These results will help you to aim your product at the market with the highest demand for your App. Distimo also lets you monitor competitors so you can base your targets of these too.
Which came first, the Apple smartphone or the Samsung smartphone?
Samsung.Apple was actually quite a late entry into the smartphone market.BlackBerry, Danger, Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Samsung etc. were all making smartphones before Apple was.
How long did it take Apple to design the first iPhone?
About 5 years. It started in 2002:This may sound simple, but it took Apple several years to create its first phone… The name was reserved back in 1999 when the company registered the iphone.org domain, just in the spirit of Apple. It was to be given to the market outcome of the Purple 1 project, upon which in 2002, Steve Jobs commented as follows: "kick-start the market for next-generation mobile phones in the same way that the company's computer popularized personal computing."However the things turned out to be more complicated and the project was closed later that year. In early 2004, Apple had no phone-related work going on; instead, it had a tablet computer in design.Steve Jobs was asked why the Apple phone had made its appearance before the tablet. His reply was: "I'll tell you. Actually, it started on a tablet first. I had this idea about having a glass display, a multi-touch display you could type on. I asked our people about it. And six months later they came back with this amazing display. And I gave it to one of our really brilliant UI guys. He then got inertial scrolling working and some other things, and I thought, 'my god, we can build a phone with this' and we put the tablet aside, and we went to work on the phone."Sources - a very interesting read, with a lot more on the history: http://mobile-review.com/article...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His...Steve Jobs claimed at the iPhone's launch in January 2007 that the original iPhone software was five years ahead of the competition, thus implying that it took 5 years to develop: http://daringfireball.net/linked...This review of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, launched in November 2011, corroborates his claim: http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/...I would put the text prediction and auto-correction on par with iOS at this point… It's stupid to have taken so long to do something so simple, but it's incredibly refreshing to not have to think about it anymore… The software is beautiful and useful. Google has cleaned up a lot of the bad, and replaced it with a serious amount of good. It's faster, smarter, and a lot more friendly than any of its predecessors. Ice Cream Sandwich easily gives iOS and Windows Phone a run for their money, and in many ways, it's a superior operating system than either of them.
What are the features of the very first iPhone introduced?
Scrolling.One of the most overlooked features that Steve Jobs brought to the table to change the world in 2007 was scrolling.I seriously dare you to find one phone that doesn’t scroll like this today.When the first iPhone launched, it packed more magic in one event than any other product launch of the past five years combined.Many of the features that we take for granted today were extremely fascinating to the audience in that theater in 2007, who took it up like the first people who got to watch a motion picture. Chief among them was the scrolling that simulated the laws of physics.Before 2007, you had phones like these. You didn’t scroll, you had to click up and down to navigate the menu. You had to click that 1000 times to traverse a 1000-people-long contact list.Steve Jobs changed all of this by allowing the user to simply touch the screen and lightly drag and launch it with one finger, scrolling through hundreds of contacts with ease. Momentum, friction, Steve made finding your mother’s phone number feel like a real physical activity.This was so much of a foreign concept, that the audience gasped and applauded when that contact list on the iPhone launched through hundreds of names that would’ve taken hours to navigate.Nowadays, we scroll through everything without a second thought, but for the people living in 2007, doing such a thing was like a miracle.
When it was first introduced, why was the iPhone successful?
The iPhone was an instant success because it was a game changer — in one handheld device you were no longer restricted to it being “just a phone” but instead you were holding a general-purpose and powerful computer capable of being so much more than being just a phone.This was immediately obvious even with the restricted set of applications which Apple first provided, even with the cripplingly slow EDGE data communications option, with the single provider (AT&T), and even without a general-purpose App store through which you could buy and install 3rd party applications.I read somewhere that Google was about to come out with their own cell phone operating system within weeks of the Apple announcement, but on seeing the iPhone presented by Steve Jobs, the person in charge at Google went to his people and told them he was pulling their own announcement, and he told them all to back up and re-think what they were offering. He wasn’t willing to come to market with a non-competitive choice, and realized they would have to “up their game” if they wanted to compete in the new world which the iPhone had created.I’ll give Google credit here (assuming what I read is correct, and this is not an apocryphal story justifying after-the-fact what happened) — that was absolutely the right move, and has resulted in Google being Apple’s only real competitor in the smartphone operating system world.
Galaxy s8 or iphone?
First you have to ask yourself are you ready for a different OS and ecosystem from IOS. Android is a more powerful OS that allows for far greater customisation and freedoms, but also ads a level of complexity you may not like being an IOS user. If you are comfortable entering into a new eco system then yes the iPhone 8 will be bringing many Galaxy S8 features with it. The iPhone 8 will copy some ideas. Infact its even going to use some Samsung components like the screen for example. However the latest reports is that the screen will be a flat panel display and won't have an edge based screen like the Galaxy. The screen will also use last year's AMOLED technology since Apple Started purchasing displays from Samsung back when the Galaxy S7 launched in preparation for the iPhone 8. Plus an independent firm who tests screens for Apple has said for competitive reasons Samsung never sells their latest and greatest tech leaving that for the Galaxy phones. The iPhone 8 is said to introduce IP68 water resistance like the Galaxy S8 as well as fast charging like the S8. The iPhone 8 is rumored to have a few extra camera sensors to help with augmented reality like what you saw with Pokemon GO. And the iPhone 8 is likely to have a fingerprint scanner built into the screen like the Galaxy S5 had. Right now nothing about the iPhone 8 really stands out for an Android user, as they already have most of these technologies. But to iPhone users these are all new things. Should you get an S8? That depends on you. Do you want these features with Android or IOS?
What was the first phone to have a fingerprint scanner?
First mobile phone to ever have a fingerprint scanner was Toshiba G500 and G900. Both of these phones were actually way ahead of their time. They ran Windows operating system, had 3G connectivity, had a secondary camera and also had fingerprint sensors. These were announced in 2007 but never launched in the market.The first device publicly available device to have fingerprint sensor was Motorola Atrix, which launched in 2011. All of these phones used an optical sensor.The first device to have capacitive fingerprint sensor was iPhone 5s and the first device to have under-screen fingerprint sensor is Vivo’s unnamed device.