Since the iPhone was born more than 7 years ago, there have been a total of 8 products on its product line, but the appearance has only undergone two major changes, namely, the original iPhone and iPhone 4. At the press conference tomorrow morning, the iPhone will usher in its third major appearance change, which is one of the important reasons why the iPhone 6 has attracted so much attention.
Not surprisingly, iPhone 6 should be the iPhone with the largest screen in history, and certainly the iPhone with the most spoilers in history. Before the release of the best mobile phone in the Western Hemisphere, let's review how this series of products, which is a milestone in the history of mobile phones and even in the history of mankind, came into being.
Prehistoric story: Apple's attempt to enter the mobile phone field
As early as December 10, 1985, Apple applied for the appearance patent of mobile phones. Although its shell is very similar to many cute Fengshanzhai machines in Huaqiangbei a few years ago, the time of its creation must have killed Huaqiangbei for more than 20 years, although its appearance is really slightly ugly.
Apple's first attempt to enter the mobile phone market was in 2005, when it launched Motorola Rockr, a mobile phone with iTunes. By this time, Joe had realized that the phone would definitely threaten the iPod (which was Apple's main profit source at that time).
When it comes to mobile phones, of course, there are various leak maps. Before the first generation iPhone came out, all kinds of leaked pictures had been everywhere. The following is an iPhone leak picture (black history) on August 3, 2006. Well, it really fits the imagination of people in that era.
Initial iPhone release: Legend unveiling
On January 9, 2007, the Macworld Conference was held in San Francisco as scheduled. After Jobs finished talking about Apple TV, the live Keynote switched to the following legendary picture, which seemed to indicate the future glory of the iPhone.
Then came the classic "big screen iPod, revolutionary mobile phone, and breakthrough Internet device", the three icons used here are also the icons on the original iPhone OS.
The early iPhone was a mobile phone full of black technology. Its most prominent feature was a 3.5 inch 320 × 480 resolution capacitive touch screen. Loser's aluminum fuselage and gorilla glass, which were unveiled for the first time, surprised the kids. You know, the threshold of giant screen was only 2.6 inches. Unfortunately, the 3.5-inch iPhone 5 was not replaced until it was replaced.
However, its performance specifications are not outstanding. The Samsung S5L890 ARM11 processor has a main frequency of 412Mhz (originally designed as 600M, frequency reduction is required to control power consumption), 128m of memory, 4G/8G/16G of flash memory (this is the only 4G flash memory version, which was also canceled shortly), 1400mAh battery (this is also a parameter that has been maintained for many years). Later, Apple was proud of the camera. At this time, it was only 2 million pixels (1/4 inch, F2.8 aperture).
Interestingly, Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google at that time, also supported Jobs at the press conference. In addition, the iPhone did not support multitasking, so engineers prepared five machines at the same time for Jobs to show the functions.
At that time, the carrier selected by Apple was AT&T. According to Apple's plan at that time, the iPhone should enter the Asian market in 2008, and China Mobile was also in the cooperation plan. However, the implementation of this plan was six years later than originally planned.
In terms of system, the first generation of iOS is called iPhone OS, which claims to use the same Unix core as Mac OS X. Multi touch, mobile Safari browser, double finger zoom Google Maps, and unified management of iTunes are all amazing designs. At the same time, it has also opened the tradition of "system and hardware together".
In that year, Nokia was still the leader, and the mobile system was still the game played by Symbian, WM, Blackberry, Palm OS. and Its initial price was set at $499/599, which was not surprising. Microsoft Ballmer and many other IT professionals were fiercely criticizing its high price. However, from the official launch on June 29, 2007 to the end of the year, Apple has sold 1.38 million iPhones.
Jobs also said, "This phone is at least five years ahead of the industry!" Although the fact is not so exaggerated, the original iPhone is indeed the most revolutionary one in history. However, it still has its own advantages and disadvantages: it does not support 3G, multitasking and third-party applications, cannot send multimedia messages, cannot replace batteries, and even earphones can only be used with official original devices
Birth of iPhone 3G App Store
On July 11, 2008, Apple moved the launch of iPhone 3G to the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC). The product configuration has not changed much, CPU、 The screen and camera remain unchanged, but GPS and 3G (WCDMA) are added. However, the price is that the metal fuselage is reduced to engineering plastic, and the fuselage thickness has also increased from 11.6mm to 12.3mm.
The changes of iPhone 3G are more reflected in the system. The system is upgraded to iOS 2 (actually called iPhone OS here), and the revolutionary App Store and iOS SDK are introduced. The App Store opened in iTunes the day before the launch (July 10), and created a rule of 3/7 sharing between Apple and third-party developers.
At the same time, there is the cloud service MobileMe, which is the prototype of iCould later. It can synchronize users' email, calendar, and contacts, but the $99 annual fee and unstable synchronization performance make it quickly replaced.
Under the dual thrust of price and system, the sales of iPhone 3G in 2008 increased 10 times compared with the original generation, to 11.62 million units.
Small upgrade speed of iPhone 3GS reaches the top
On June 19, 2009, the iPhone 3GS was released in the WWDC that year. This is the first iPhone not released by Jobs himself. At the same time, it also created the tradition of releasing the s version every other year (s stands for speed).
This time, the hardware of the iPhone has been comprehensively upgraded, claiming that the performance has been improved more than twice. The processor is pushed to 620MHz, the memory is increased to 256M, the 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera is adopted, and VGA (480P) video recording is supported. Most conscientiously, its hardware can run iOS 6!
Also released at the same time is iOS 3, where Apple finally added MMS support. Third party application push service, compass, recorder, software horizontal screen operation, remote erase and other functions are also added at this time.
The most famous function update here, of course, is the copy and paste function. The most painful function update is Spotlight global search, which includes contacts, email, calendar, notes and iPod. But when the homepage slides to the left, it will get stuck. It will not end until iOS7
One million iPhones of this version were sold at the first weekend of launch, and the total sales of iPhones in the same year reached 20.73 million.
The iPhone 4 changed everything again
On the WWDC on June 8, 2010, the iPhone 4 was released as scheduled. This is the first time that the appearance of the iPhone has been upgraded, and the sleek design that has lasted for generations has finally passed. This classic double-sided glass sandwich structure is still imitated by many manufacturers. In addition, the story that Apple engineers lost the design prototype in the tavern is still one of Apple's most serious leaks.
As Apple said officially, this is a complete redesign: double-sided gorilla glass, stainless steel frame, 9.3mm body thickness. Its own A4 chip debuted, 512m memory, 5 megapixel back lit camera, and HDR mode was introduced. Although the screen is still 3.5 inches, the black technology of retina and IPS is coming (3.5 inches 960 x 640). This started the history of Apple's screen performance killing peers, and mobile phones began to compete for PPI.
The iOS 4 released in the same period has not changed much in appearance, but the number and quality of applications are rising rapidly. Finally, multi tasking (though still pseudo multi tasking) is introduced. Facetime, desktop folders, custom wallpapers, Game Center, Airplay (cross device streaming media), AirPrint (wireless printing), and Wifi hotspots have all come.
In addition, this is the first time that the iPhone has a large-scale quality problem. Because the design of using stainless steel frame as antenna is not yet mature, there is an "antenna door" (different angles of holding will make the signal of the phone fluctuate significantly). Apple's solution is to provide free protective covers to cover the antenna and solve the problem of weak signals.
Admittedly, the crisis public relations were not well done this time. Even so, the iPhone 4 has broken the sales record. In 2010, the global sales of iPhone 4 reached 39.98 million units.
The posthumous work of Jobs on iPhone 4s, the beginning of the decline?
The iPhone 4s was released on October 14, 2011, changing the history of the previous release in June and continuing to this day. In terms of appearance, the 4S store only changed the position of the front signal slot and opened an additional signal slot. This exquisite design also made it the first mobile phone in the world (at the same time, it supports all mobile phone systems at that time: WCDMA/CDMA/GSM）。
In terms of hardware, the CPU was upgraded to the dual core A5, with the main frequency still at 800MHz, the camera was upgraded to 8 million pixels, and a set of lenses was added to improve light transmittance, supporting 1080P video recording. However, this upgrade is still too few, which has caused many netizens' dissatisfaction. The "s" after its name has even been ridiculed as "s" for same.
Meanwhile, iOS 5, the first voice assistant Siri, was released to surprise everyone in terms of software. Although it is not practical, it has already become the standard configuration of mobile phone systems.
Also released are the notification center, iMessage, iCloud and PC Free features. The former is Apple's notification bar, while iMessage is a free IM service across Apple devices. PC Free brings PC free activation and iTunes Wi Fi Sync. It also adds gesture operation function to the iPad, which is still the dream function of Android tablet even now.
On the day of the press conference, the beloved leader Qiao died, but the fans still helped Apple to set a sales record with grief and indignation. On the day of the press conference, Apple was launched in the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Canada and Japan, and its sales reached 1 million units in one day.
In the same year, Apple overtook Nokia, the top mobile phone manufacturer for more than 10 years, and became the most profitable mobile phone manufacturer on earth. The global sales of iPhones reached 72.3 million.
Plain cross generation upgrade of iPhone 5
The iPhone 5 was officially released on September 13, 2012. In this version, the body was lengthened, the double-sided glass design was canceled, and the all metal body was introduced. The screen was increased to 4 inches, and the nano sim card design was changed. Although the volume has become larger, the body has become lighter instead, successfully reducing weight from 140g to 112g.
The new machine uses a new 1.3GHz main frequency A6 core. The memory has grown to 1G, and the camera is still 8 million pixels, but the front camera has finally been upgraded to 1.3 million pixels (previously 300000 pixels), and supports 4G. Also updated is the EarPods headset. However, the problem of paint loss occurred in this version, especially in the black version. Since then, there have been more paint loss tests for black products
IOS 6 was released together with iPhone 5. Because Apple and Google are hostile, the biggest difference between this version and the previous version is de Google. Google Maps was replaced by its own map, but even if there was a gorgeous 3D Flyover bird's eye view mode, it could not save Apple Maps from positioning out of the sky. New CEO Cook even apologized for this.
Passbook and notification center interference free mode also appear. Siri can finally be used to open programs and send Facebook and Twitter.
The beginning of iPhone 5s/5c flattening
This version of iPhone was released on September 20, 2013, which is the first time that two iPhones were released at the same time in a press conference. 5s adopts a new 64 bit A7 processor and introduces the black technology of Touch ID. Because Apple directly bought the company that invented the technology, there is only one technology in the world.
The processor also has its own coprocessor to reduce machine power consumption, while the memory is still 1G. Although the processor is not very beautiful in number, its processor is actually the same model (downscale version) as the iPad Air, and its performance is enough to kill the flagship Android in the same period. His fellow apprentice 5c basically changed the iPhone 5 from a metal shell to a plastic shell, and the hardware parameters have not changed at all.
Of course, Chinese people will not forget that the 5s has also introduced the third color besides black and white - Tuhaojin for the first time.
The iOS7 released in the same period is the first work since Jonathan took over the software department. The bold color matching and exaggerated flattening make people refreshing. It is not too hard to say that this system is the biggest feature of 5s. Although the new system has not improved much in function, the new interface style, pull-up control bar, and fingerprint identification function are all very commendable and have been copied by Android manufacturers.
The most disappointing thing about this press conference is the pricing of 5c. Its configuration is the same as that of the iPhone 5, but it also lost its metal body. Although the price has declined, it still led to poor sales. Apple has repeatedly reduced its production capacity.
However, this time, the iPhone 5s and 5c still broke the sales record, with 9 million units sold three days before the launch. In 2013, the sales of iPhones reached 150 million.
IPhone 6 large screen and health device?
Since the death of Steve Jobs, Apple's confidentiality work has been far worse than before, and various spoilers began to appear almost a year ago. The appearance and configuration of the iPhone 6 have been "finalized" almost half a year ago. The press conference has changed from expectation to verification, but every time Apple always gives us some small surprises, and what will happen to this press conference? If you are interested, please follow us Love to play computer games Live broadcast of And related follow-up evaluation.
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