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.
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.
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)
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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