To call the Apple iPhone a mere “cell phone” is almost an insult to the device itself. This is because even though it can still be used the same way as a basic phone, there is so much more to it. With its revolutionary touch screen controls and the actual iPhone software itself, it was not surprising that the release of the first version in 2007 created such a stir. And once it became possible to download all sorts of extra little applications to customize one’s iPhone, it was no wonder that each release that followed was greeted like some sort of divine revelation.
Those two features, the touch screen and the applications, or apps, were what put the Apple iPhone in a class by itself at the time of its first release. There were other phones that made similar internet connections, such as the BlackBerry, which served as a cell phone but also allowed email, texting and internet browsing on a small screen; however, the iPhone release brought those functions to a slightly larger screen, which people could manipulate by moving their fingers on the screen itself. And by adding all those applications, which help users to do everything from order flowers to surf YouTube to make stock trades, the iPhone became something that can hardly be described as a “phone” any longer.
The initial iPhone was released gradually in several countries around the world. Of course its first release was in its own home, the United States, in June of 2007. It was slowly rolled out in other mostly European countries in the subsequent months, as deals were reached with the companies that would have rights to be the official vendors. And everywhere the iPhone news spread, people continued lining up and paying high prices to get an iPhone of their own.
With the expansion of the iPhone software to allow user downloads of small applications that would customize a user’s phone to their particular needs, the Apple iPhone really became something other than a mere cell phone. Even with initial complaints about the price of the device, it’s those special downloadable applications that have made it truly remarkable. Even though it still doesn’t dominate the field of portable communication devices, it did alter the concept of the “cell phone” into something else altogether.
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