Apple Smartphones

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As we all know that Apple Smartphones (iPhones) are the most widely used smartphones in the whole, so let us have a brief introduction about all Apple Smartphones.

Introduction

Apple Inc. designs and markets line of smartphones, know as iPhone. Mobile operating system of Apple iOS is run by these line of smartphones. As the first generation of iPhone was released on 29th June 2007, the most recent and the latest model of iPhone was unveiled on 7th September 2016 at a special event.

Description

Around the device’s multi touch screen is built an user interface, which includes virtual keyboard. Even there is WiFi in iPhone and is able to connect to cellular networks. The main features of iPhone are: shooting video, taking photos, playing music, sending and receiving email and text messages, browsing the web, following GPS navigation, recording notes, performing mathematical calculations and receiving visual voicemail. Enabling video games, reference works, social networking etc. by downloading mobile apps from Apple’s App Store are the other functions.

iPhone generations

iPhone models ...
... has ten generations, which has been released by Apple and each generation accompanies one of the iOS operating systems ten major releases. Design precedents were established in the original 1st generation of iPhone, which is a button replacements and has persisted throughout all releases and even a screen size maintained for the next four iteration and it was also a GSM phone. The second generation of iPhone, was named as iPhone 3G and it added 3G network support and iPhone 3GS with improved hardware followed it. The next generation of iPhone, was named iPhone 4 that had a metal chassis, higher display resolution and front facing camera and iPhone 4S followed it with improved hardware and voice assistant Siri. The next generation of iPhone was iPhone 5, which was taller with a 4-inch display and also introduced Apple’s newly Lightning connector. Later in 2013, iPhone 5S was released by Apple, with improved hardware and fingerprint reader and also iPhone 5C, which is a version of iPhone 5 with colored plastic casing instead of metal and also low in cost. This generation of iPhone was followed with iPhone 6, which had models featuring 4.7 and 5.5-inch displays. Later in the following year iPhone 6S was introduced, which also featured hardware upgrade and pressure-sensitive touch inputs support and also iPhone 6SE featuring hardware from the 6S, but the smaller form factor of the 5S. Apple unveiled iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus later in 2016, which has features such as: add water resistance, improved system and graphics performance, a new rear dual-camera setup on the Plus model and new colour options, while removing the 3.5 mm headphone jack which was found on the previous iPhone series.

Sale and Profits

About 6.1 million first generation iPhone units were sold by Apple over the five quarters.Research in Motion's (RIM) Blackberry sale of 5.2 million was surpassed by sales in the fourth quarter, due to which Apple became the third largest mobile phone manufacturer following Nokia and Samsung. By the end of the year 2010 Apple sold around 73.5 million iPhones.

iPhone cases

An Apple phone has only one year limited guarantee and 90 days of complimentary telephone technical support. iPhone models are very costly and it is even more costly to maintain them.
Also, it is not easy to get original parts of iPhone, they are too costly. So, it is best to protect rather than taking a chance of repairing them. So, protect your new iPhone 6 and 6S from scratches by buying phone covers for iPhone 6 and 6S. Now-a-days there are many wooden cases for iPhone 6 and 6S.