Apple just became the first American public company to cross $1 trillion in value. Apple’s core product, the iPhone, has ranked amongst the top five smartphone vendors in the world since 2009. It was January 9 2007 when Steve Jobs took to the stage of the Moscone Center in San Francisco to announce the arrival of the iPhone, which went on sale on June 29 of the same year. Since then apple has made 19 different iPhone modules. The progress they've made and the way these iPhones have evolved are unbelievable. With the launch of the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max, let's look back over the twelve years of iPhone products to see just how much they've changed. Over the past 12 years, Apple has immensely improved the iPhone's screen display, Camera quality, and storage capacity.
To show just how much and how fast these phones have truly evolved let's start with the very first iPhone, iPhone 1 (first generation). Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone as three devices in one: a touchscreen iPod, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a mobile web browser. Apple sold 6.1 million units of the iPhone 1. Its 3.5-inch screen had a 320 x 480-pixel resolution (one of the best displays of the time), a 2MP camera built in, and up to 8GB of storage. Just to show you how much of an improvement apple made to phones let's look back on a popular phone that was released just a year before which was called the LG Chocolate. The LG Chocolate was a slider cellphone-MP3 player hybrid that was sold as a feature phone. This phone only had a 4GB memory SIM card, a screen resolution of 320 x 240, and a 1.3 MP front camera. The iPhone 1 nearly doubled all of the features of previous phones. Smartphones were elevated forever ever since that point on. Touch screens, apps, and digital media were the way forward.
The iPhone 6 is the eighth generation of the iPhone, succeeding the iPhone 5S, and was announced on September 9, 2014, and released on September 19, 2014. Apple sold over 10 million in the opening weekend; 220+ million total. After the smaller changes that came with the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S, Apple was back to its revolutionary best with the following generation, as the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus brought the biggest alterations in design and features since the leap from the iPhone 4S to the iPhone 5. the iPhone 6 offers storage sizes of 16, 64 & 128GB while iPhone 5 only offered a storage capacity of 16, 32 or 64 GB. which means the storage for the iPhone 6 increased another 64 GB then the previous iPhone model. The most improved change the eighth generation iPhones had was the screen size, with the iPhone 6's display leaping from the iPhone 5's 4 inches to 4.7 inches. Apple also upped the resolution from 1136 x 640 of previous iPhones to 1334 x 750. This meant that the larger screen still had a high pixel density of 326ppi (pixels per inch), so image quality was incredibly sharp and detailed. As the name suggests, the iPhone 6 Plus went even larger, with a whopping 5.5-inch display, marking Apple's first foray into the phablet market. The iPhone 6 Plus also got a resolution boost to full high definition, 1920 x 1080. With a pixel density of 401ppi, not only does the iPhone 6 Plus have the largest screen of any iPhone ever, but it also has the clearest. Look how much they improved and added to the iPhone in just 7 years. With huge changes in screen size and pixels, revolution apple is improving at a rapid rate.
The iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max launched in September 2019 and are the latest and greatest Apple phones, which expanded their rear camera suite to a third ultrawide lens. Both have new matte glass finishes on the back cover, which don’t hold fingerprints, and the front display is a new ‘Super Retina XDR’ screen. The iPhone 11 Pro has a 5.8-inch OLED Super Retina XDR Display, while the Max has a 6.5-inch Super Retina XDR display. This is the 'brightest display' yet on the iPhone. The custom-designed OLED of the Super Retina XDR display provides an HDR experience when watching videos and has 1,200 nits of brightness. It has support for a wide color gamut and has a True Tone display. There's a 2 million-to-one contrast ratio for true blacks, and the entire display is much more power efficient. The iPhone 11 comes in three storage capacities: 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB. iPhone 11 Pro comes in three storage capacities: 64GB, 256GB, and 512GB. This means since the iPhone 6 they have increased storage capacity by a whopping 384 GB. If that wasn't crazy enough apple even improved the battery life, The iPhone 11 Pro will have four more hours than the iPhone XS, and the iPhone 11 Pro Max has five more hours than its predecessor. The iPhone 11 comes in 6 different colors including purple, yellow, green, black, white, and product(red). The iPhone pro comes in 4 colors including the brand-new midnight green, silver, space grey, and gold. In just 5 Years since the iPhone 6 apple has outdone itself again. It is unbelievable how far the picture quality, the screen size, and the battery life have come on these iPhones since the first model was ever made. The iPhone 11 series started selling online last month. Since then the iPhone 11 colors were the first to sell out. Two weeks after the iPhone 11’s in-store launch, a new report says that the iPhone 11 is selling so well that Apple ordered as many as eight million iPhone 11 units from suppliers.
Over the past 12 years, Apple has immensely improved the iPhone's screen display, Camera quality, and storage capacity. After seeing not only all of the amazing physical changes like the screen display and camera quality of the iPhone over time, the internal changes like storage and battery life have also extremely improved. iPhones have forever changed the quality of smartphones and how they are perceived by consumers. Since 2009, Apple has sold more than 1.5 billion iPhones, making it one of the most used smartphones in the world.