By Jaya Pathak
10 amazing facts about iPhone – The most expensive phones
IPhone is one of the expensive smartphones which is developed and marketed by apple. Apple releases the new iPhone models and iOS versions annually. its most recent models are iPhone 16 and 16 plus and the higher end iPhone 16 pro and 16 pro max.
In this blog, we will discuss amazing facts about the most expensive phone that is iPhone.
- The first-generation iPhone was announced by the then CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007 at Macworld 2007 and launched later that year.
- Development of an apple smartphone began in 2004 when the company started to gather a team of 1000 employees led by hardware engineer Tony Fadell, software engineer Scott Forstall and designer officer Johnny Ive, to work on the highly confidential “project purple”.
- The original iPhone was the first mobile phone to use multi touch technology.
- Up to the iPhone 8 and 8 plus iPhones had a single button on the front panel with the iPhone 5 S and later integrating a touch ID fingerprint sensor.
- Since the iPhone X, iPhone models have switched to a nearly bezel less front screen design with face ID facial recognition in place of touch ID for authentication and increased use of gestures in place of the home button for navigation.
- IPhone operates using Apple’s proprietary iOS software which is one of the two major smartphone platforms in the world alongside Android.
- In addition to the apps that come preinstalled on iOS, there are nearly 2,000,000 apps available for download from Apple’s mobile distribution marketplace, the App Store, as of August 2024.
- In 2022, apple announced that a portion of the iPhone 14 would be manufactured in Tamil Nadu India as a response to China’s 0 COVID policy that has negatively affected global supply chains for many countries. Apple has stated that they plan to ship 25% of iPhone production to India by 2025.
- Apple directly subcontracts hardware production to external OEM companies, maintaining a high degree of control over the end product. Some hardware elements such as 3D touch and the taptic engine are unique to the iPhone. The main hardware of the iPhone is the touch screen with current models offering screens of 4.7 inches and larger.
- As of January 1st 2024, around 2.3 billion units of iPhone were sold. This made apple the largest vendor of mobile phones in 2023.
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