10 iPhone Facts You May Not Know

Even if you are a fan of Apple technology, you hardly know everything about it. We have collected 10 interesting facts about her most popular product that few people know.

The iPhone was not Apple's first phone

In September 2005 (two years before the presentation of the first iPhone) Motorola partnered with Apple to release the Rokr E1 phone with built-in iTunes. Then the key product of the Cupertinians was the iPod, and Steve Jobs understood that a phone with the ability to play music would become a serious rival to the player. The Rokr E1 was an attempt to carve out a niche ahead of the competition - but it was a failure.

The first iPhone wasn't made by Apple

Apple registered iphone.org in December 1999 - but Cisco has been using the iPhone name for its wireless VoIP phones since 1998. In 2007, the companies came to an agreement and Apple obtained the rights to the name.

In the beginning there was an iPad, not an iPhone

Back in the late 90s, Steve Jobs wanted to release a laptop that would cost a couple of hundred dollars. To reduce the price, it was necessary to abandon the keyboard - which led to the need to make a multi-touch screen. As a result, prototypes of the first iPad appeared, but development was suspended to focus on work on the smartphone.

The first iPad came out in 2010 and everyone saw it as a larger iPhone. In fact, the iPhone was a smaller iPad with the ability to make calls.

Apple predicted Siri with alarming accuracy

Siri has become a key feature of the iPhone 4s. The presentation of the smartphone took place on October 4, 2011, but in the 1980s, John Scully, then the CEO of Apple, came up with the concept of the virtual assistant Knowledge Navigator. Apple even made a promotional video showing how it could work.

The video takes place in the future, and the professor asks the AI ​​assistant to find an article written five years ago - in 2006. The date on the calendar on his desk is September 16. That is, the action takes place on September 16, 2011 - the video predicted the appearance of Siri in 24 years with an error of less than a month!

Apple has sold over 2.2 billion iPhones

For the entire existence of the Apple line sold 2.2 billion iPhones - and these are statistics for November 2018! But this is probably the last official figure: after that, the company announced that it would stop disclosing data on the number of devices sold.

iPhone 6 is the top-selling model

Since its release in 2014, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have combined sales of 222 million devices - with the smaller version being more popular. However, even together they fall short of the success of the Nokia 110 with its 250 million units sold.

IPhone may have rotary dial

The Click Wheel was a recognizable element of the iPod - and they thought to use it in a smartphone. The early iPhone prototype used such a wheel to navigate through contacts and dial a number, just like the old rotary dial phones. But it took too long to dial a number in this way, and this input method did not allow using the Internet. Fortunately, Steve Jobs decided that the team could come up with something better - and they did it.

Apple thought to add a joystick to the iPhone

It is not known how seriously the company considered this idea, but the fact remains: in 2015, Apple received patent a small joystick built into the Home button. As we all know, nothing like this has ever appeared in iPhones, and now, in the era of ultra-thin smartphones with screens almost the entire front panel, the chances of such an idea being implemented are close to zero.

The first iPhone, which was shown at the presentation, practically did not work

The presentation of the first iPhone remains one of the most famous in history. But it becomes even more impressive when you know that the demo barely worked. The phone itself was extremely fragile, and there were problems with the software too. Because of this, Steve Jobs had to strictly follow a plan to demonstrate how the apps worked — one wrong click and the presentation could end up horribly.

One iPhone has been on sale for less than three months

Although Apple updates its lineup every year, older iPhones usually remain on sale even after new products are released. But sometimes things don't go according to plan. For example, the first generation iPhone went on sale on July 29, 2007, but on September 5, Apple stopped selling the base model with 4GB of storage. At the same time, the company made the 8 GB version for $ 200 cheaper.