Some facts about the iPhone

• The iPhone is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc.
• On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc. introduced the first iPhone.
• The App Store was launched in mid-2008 by Apple.
• There are over 300,000 "apps" (applications), approved by Apple.
• Currently, there are four generations of iPhone models.
• The iPhone has been successful in attracting users of all ages.
• The original iPhone went on sale in the U.S. on June 29, 2007.
• The iPhone was made available in the Germany, France and United Kingdom in November 2007, and Austria and Ireland in the first months of 2008.
• By the end of fiscal year 2010, a total of 73.5 million iPhones were sold worldwide.
• The iPhone allows users to purchase and download songs from the iTunes Store directly to their smartphone.
• iPhone app impressions on Black Friday increased year over year by 109 percent.
• Safari is the iPhone's native web browser.
• Currently, the iPhone supports neither Flash nor Java.

QUOTES ABOUT THE iPHONE

"Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It's very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. ... Apple's been very fortunate in that it's introduced a few of these." STEVE JOBS

"The iPhone is the most sophisticated, outlook-challenging piece of electronics to come along in years. It does so many things so well, and so pleasurably, that you tend to forgive its foibles." DAVID POGUE

"Well, of course, I'm the wrong person to ask. I like to dial numbers with one hand, and maybe I'm the only one." BILL GATES