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History of the iPhone

The iPhone is Apple's line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. All generations of the iPhone only run on iOS. This is the world's first smartphone. Steve Jobs was asking them to investigate the use of touchscreen devices and tablet computers. Many have noted the iPhone will be compared to Apple's previous touch-screen portable device, Newton's MessagePad, which was released in 1993 before the first generation of the iPhone is introduced. Like the MessagePad, the iPhone is nearly all-screen.

Name of the iPhone

First to the Latest Version of iOS

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Released Date

Display Size

Battery Life

Time Length of Water-Resistant

Discontinued Date

Unsupported Date

Price

Storage Capacity

Back View of iPhone

Front View of iPhone

iPhone 2G

iPhone 2G

iPhone OS 1.0 - 3.1.3

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June 29, 2007

90 mm (3.5") / 320x480 pixels

Up to 14 hours

Not Water Resistant 

July 11, 2008

June 20, 2010

$499-$599

16 GB

Front and Back View of iPhone 2G (2007).
iPhone 3G

iPhone 3G

iPhone OS 2.0 - iOS 4.2.1

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July 11, 2008

3.5 in / 480x320 pixels

Up to 10 hours

Not Water Resistant

June 7, 2010

March 3, 2011

$199-$499

16 GB

Front and Back View of iPhone 3G (2008).
iPhone 3GS

iPhone 3GS

iPhone OS 3.0 - iOS 6.1.6

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June 19, 2009

3.5 in (89 mm) / 480x320 pixels

Up to 12 hours

Not Water Resistant

June 24, 2010

February 21, 2014

$199-$699

32 GB

Front and Back View of iPhone 3GS (2009)
iPhone 4

iPhone 4

iOS 4.0 - 7.1.2

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June 24, 2010

3.5 in (89 mm) / 960x640 pixels

Up to 14 hours

Not Water Resistant

September 10, 2013

September 17, 2014

$199-$749

32 GB

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iPhone 4S

iPhone 4S

iOS 5.0 - 9.3.6

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October 14, 2011

3.5 in (89 mm) / 960x640 pixels

Up to 14 hours

Not Water Resistant

September 20, 2012

September 12, 2016

$199-$849

64 GB

Front and Back View of iPhone 4S (2011).
iPhone 5

iPhone 5

iOS 6.0 - 10.3.4

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September 21, 2012

4 in (100 mm) / 1,136x640 pixels

Up to 10 hours

Not Water Resistant

September 10, 2013

September 18, 2017

$199-$849

64 GB

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iPhone 5C

iPhone 5C

iOS 7.0 - 10.3.3

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September 20, 2013

4 in (100 mm) / 1,136x640 pixels

Up to 10 hours

Not Water Resistant

September 9, 2014

September 18, 2017

$99-$649

32 GB

Front and Back View of iPhone 5C (2013).
iPhone 5S

iPhone 5S

iOS 7.0 - 12.4.5

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September 20, 2013

4 in (100 mm) / 1,136x640 pixels

Up to 10 hours

Not Water Resistant

September 9, 2014

September 18, 2019

$199-$849

64 GB

Front and Back View of iPhone 5S (2014).

iPhone 6

iOS 8.0 - 12.4.5

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September 19, 2014

4 in (100 mm) / 1,136x640 pixels

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