Apple iPhones, iPads And Devices

Here is some more information about the company Apple and its iPhones, iPads and other devices. Apple is the heavy hitter in the mobile industry.

The iPhone and iPads have been a runaway success and are considered to be the benchmark in the industry.

iPhone History

The iPhone is phone designed and sold by Apple Inc. Both the iPhone and iPads are sold though Apple stores, telcos and other major retailers.

The iPhone began with a request by Apple CEO Steve Jobs to Apple's engineers. Jobs asked the engineering team to investigate the use of touch screen mobile devices and tablet computers. Out of this research the iPhone and the iPad were born.

All models of the iPhone and iPad use Apple's iOS mobile operating system. The iPhone 3G, Ausralia's first iPhone was originally advertised as a three in one device, a phone, an iPod and a PDA.

The original or first-generation iPhone was released on June 29, 2007 and Apple announced the iPhone at the Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 11, 2007 stating that the iPhone would support third-party applications using Safari.

There have been many different new iPhone models and iterations with new iOS releases released since then. Australia did not get the original iPhone but all models after the original iPhone were sold in Australia.

The first iPad model was released on April 3, 2010. The iPhone and iPad are dominant devices in the phone and tablet categories.

iPhone Models

Below is a list of iPhone models with the year of release and shows when each model was sold until.

iPhone (2007–2008) not released in Australia. There were some examples privately imported.

iPhone 3G (2008–2010)

iPhone 3GS (2009–2012)

iPhone 4 (2010–2013)

iPhone 4S (2011–2014)

iPhone 5 (2012–2013)

iPhone 5C (2013–2015)

iPhone 5S (2013–2016)

iPhone 6 (2014–2016)

iPhone 6 Plus (2014–2016)

iPhone 6S (2015–2018)

iPhone 6S Plus (2015–2018)

iPhone SE (2016–2018)

iPhone 7 (2016–2019)

iPhone 7 Plus (2016–2019)

iPhone 8 (2017–present)

iPhone 8 Plus (2017–present)

iPhone X (2017–2018)

iPhone XS (2018–2019)

iPhone XS Max (2018–2019)

iPhone XR (2018–present)

iPhone 11 (2019–present)

iPhone 11 Pro (2019–present)

iPhone 11 Pro Max (2019–present)

iPad Models

Below is a list of iPad models with their release dates.

iPad April 3, 2010

iPad 2 March 11, 2011

iPad (3rd generation) March 16, 2012

iPad Mini November 2, 2012

iPad (4th generation) November 12, 2012

iPad Air November 1, 2013

iPad Mini 2 November 12, 2013

iPad Mini 3 October 22, 2014

iPad Air 2 October 22, 2014

iPad Mini 4 September 9, 2015

iPad Pro (1st, 12.9'') November 11, 2015

iPad Pro (1st, 9.7'') March 31, 2016

iPad (5th generation) March 24, 2017

iPad Pro (2nd, 10.5''/12.9'') June 13, 2017

iPad (6th generation) March 27, 2018

iPad Pro (3rd, 11"/12.9") October 30, 2018

iPad Air (3rd generation) March 18, 2019

iPad Mini (5th generation) March 18, 2019

iPad (7th generation) September 25, 2019

This Apple iPhone Photo was originally uploaded to Apple Images Folder

The immense success of the iPhone and iPad has seen a vast range of cases for the iPhone and covers and cases for the iPad.

The original iPhones up to and including the iPhone 4s used a 30 pin charger while iPhones including the iPhone 5 and later and ipads (except the iPad Pro 11 inch 2018 and the iPad Pro 12.9 2018 which use a USB type C charger) use Apple's Lightning chargers.

This Apple iPhone photo was originally uploaded to Apple Images Folder

iPhones from the iPhone 8 and later have wireless charging and iPhone fast charging capability.

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This Spreadsheet was originally uploaded to Apple Spreadsheet Folder