Browse through hordes of speculations, rumours and the true stories leading upto the launch of the iPhone. Listed below is a 'significant landmarks' timeline:
Dec 1999: Dec 14. Apple acquires the domain name www.iphone.org, which to this day directs visitors to the main corporate page.
April 2001: April 16. Infosync posts a photo of what many believe to be the iPhone.
2002-2004: Apple applies for iPhone trademark in various countries including, the US, UK, Canada, Singapore, India
2005: March 28. Business 2.0 Magazine publishes an article based on analysts’ comments about what is next for Apple. The iPhone is in the top five potential products, along with a wireless iPod, video iPod, media center and an enhanced iPod product for the car.
2005: June. iPhone proof in new iTunes.
2006. July. iPhone clues in new iPod software.
2006. September. Apple projects 25 million iPhones in 2007.
2006. October. Apple patent for a new Speech Recognition System.
2006. November. Apple signs deal with Cingular.
2007. January 10. Jobs announces iPhone in keynote address.
2007. June 29. iPhone releases worldwide!
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Welcome to the iPhone timeline!
Friday, June 29, 2007
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Critical Consensus: The iPhone scorecard
A chart of the top-rate reviewers who examined the Apple iPhone and what they thought. They differ on the keypad, but they all agree the network speed is the phone's Achilles heel.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
"The iPhone Matches Most of Its Hype" says the NY Times in an early review
So how is it? As it turns out, much of the hype and some of the criticisms are justified. The iPhone is revolutionary; it’s flawed. It’s substance; it’s style. It does things no phone has ever done before; it lacks features found even on the most basic phones.
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Activate iPhone from home, not in store.
From Steve himself, you will not have to wait in store to activate your iPhone.
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iPhone Rate Plans Revealed
Apple has put up a page detailing the cost of the rate plans. They aren't as bad as people had thought: All plans with unlimited data - $60 for 450 minutes, $80 for 900 minutes and $100 for 1350 minutes. Existing customers can add unlimited data for $20 - $40 with a varying number of text messages.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Interview With the First Two iPhone Campers in NY
You know those two guys waiting in line for the iPhone a whole 100 hours early? We've got an exclusive interview with them. Watch as our own Richard Blakeley asks them life's greatest questions: what they're doing here, what they've got in their hands, and whether they have a girlfriend.
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Monday, June 25, 2007
iPhone Apple Store NYC, PEOPLE ALREADY WAITING!
The Apple Store NYC…6/25 at 2:48 PM. The first two folks waiting outside for the iPhone…keep in mind it’s not released until 29th (4 DAYS!). View pictures at link...
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Sunday, June 24, 2007
Apple unveils unexpected iPhone Features: Word, Excel Files Viewable + More
Business users have frequently cited ambiguity over iPhone’s support for Word or Excel documents as a potentially fatal omission, so their inclusion removes just one more potential barrier to the phone’s popularity. Apple claims that in “about a week,” you’ll be thumb-typing faster on iPhone than any other small keyboard.
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Saturday, June 23, 2007
Confirmed: iPhones to be sold online
The bottom right of the Apple guided tour page confirms that Apple will be selling the iPhone online. Since the option is still grayed out, it's unclear whether the link will take you to the online Apple Store, to an AT&T site, or to some combination of the two, and how much stock will be assigned to that store. Does this change your plans?
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$175 Fee If You Cancel iPhone, Even Though You Paid Full Price
You better frickin' like your full-price iPhone because if you don't, AT&T plans on charging you the full $175 early termination fee, even though the phone's cost isn't at all subsidized under a long-term-agreement.
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AT&T calls for backup on iPhone Day
Eight days before the iPhone arrives, AT&T is planning for extra security and a flood of customers next Friday. The company has hired 2,000 temporary workers to help keep things rolling on iPhone Day (previously known as June 29th)
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Apple announces iPhone now delivers up to 8 hours of talk, 250 standby
In a press release today, Apple has revealed a number of significant upgrades to both the iPhone's battery life and touch screen.
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Friday, June 15, 2007
iTweetr - Twitter for iPhone
I think twitter is perfectly suited for the iPhone, and sure you could use the standard Twitter page or you could use something like this. Its only a concept at the moment, but it shows how it could be displayed.
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Friday, June 8, 2007
3 million iPhones waiting on stock for 29th of June
29th of June will be a historical day for every Apple fan and it seems Apple is trying hard to have full warehouses for the first shipping day.
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Monday, June 4, 2007
iPhone release date confirmed: yours on June 29th
Looks like our source was right: the iPhone is yours come June 29th. The commercial just aired on 60 Minutes, and now you can finally mark your calendar...
What did they say?
...so wait, u r telling me i only have 25 days to get 600$! At 8.00$ an hour this will take forever! looks like I'm gonna have to whore my self out to every girl in town to get the money....(runs to street corner)
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Friday, May 18, 2007
Apple iPhone receives FCC approval!
Apple Inc. on Thursday received the official go-ahead on its first ever mobile handset, with the Federal Communications Commission giving the iPod maker the green light to commence sales of the device in the United States. "The Apple Inc. A1203 GSM Cellular Telephone with Bluetooth and Wifi, FCC ID: BCGA1203, is in compliance with the limits for getting an approval.
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Thursday, May 17, 2007
Apple patent clears road for theft-proof iPhones, Macs
Apple Inc. has successfully patented an anti-theft safeguard for notebooks, phones, and other portable electronics that offers protection simply by sensing the outside world.
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Sunday, May 13, 2007
Found Footage: AT&T's Stan Sigman gifts iPhone at West Texas A&M
TUAW is pleased to bring you this exclusive video from our agent-on-the-spot Mikal. Today, Stan Sigman, CEO of AT&T Wireless (Cingular), was the commencement speaker at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas. Sigman, who is a 1970 WTAMU grad, gifted WTAMU president Dr. J. Patrick O'Brien with what appears to be the "first iPhone in Texas".
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Steve Jobs on critics, 3rd party iPhone development, and the future of .Mac
At Apple's annual shareholders meeting on Thursday, chief executive Steve Jobs ran into some fresh sources of criticism and also commented on some new products and strategies, such as third-party iPhone application development and the future of the company's .Mac online services.
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Monday, April 16, 2007
Patent app hints at iPhone controlling Mac, iTunes
According to a recent filing, Apple engineers explain how a mysterious "mobile phone" could be used to control your Mac (and specific applications like iTunes) via built-in Bluetooth, and the wording even mentions specific software that would be tailored to the Mac and handset in order to make it all happen.
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Sunday, April 8, 2007
iPhone confirmed for Rogers Wireless in Canada. Again.
Hence, just today, on April 6th 2007, we’ve made a call to Rogers Wireless regarding the CBC report. Rogers Wireless customer representative Amanda, (1-877-764-3772), told us the following. According to Amanda (whose last name we were unable to get due to Rogers policies), “We [Rogers Wireless] are going to offer the iPhone in Canada… We’re just..
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Monday, March 19, 2007
Fake iPhone hits the streets. $150
We've gotta hand it to them: electronics conmen are extremely confident in their belief in the ignorance of the masses. Gaze at the unbelievably poor "Ipod [sic] style Mobile Phone iPhone" rendition above, and then suck in the £75 (around $150) pricetag.
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Sunday, March 11, 2007
Harvard Professor: "Apple Generated $400 Million of Free iPhone Publicity"
"No other company has ever received that kind of attention for a product launch," Yoffie says. "It's unprecedented."...The company's masterful buzz machine has helped generate record profits (thanks to the worldwide digital music cultural icon, the iPod)
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Friday, March 2, 2007
Apple's Tim Cook confirms June launch for iPhone and 90 million iPods sold
Apple's chief operating officer, Tim Cook has confirmed 90 million iPod sales since October 2001 and confirmed a June launch for iPhone remains on target.
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Saturday, February 24, 2007
iPhone to get upgraded to 3G by 2008
It seems that a common theme in dialogue regarding the iPhone has become, "I'll wait for version 2, thank you very much." The sentiment makes sense in some ways; after all, the first-gen model lacks key goodness (3G radio, open platform, removeable battery), not to mention the fact that companies frequently fail to get the first version.....
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Apple's iPhone margins may be closer to 20 percent than the estimated 50
So we heard that Apple would be making 50 percent per iPhone, but leading anaylists are now taking a second look. Apple's cost, including integration, is well above $300 for the 4 GB model. After the costs associated with building, shipping, marketing and selling the iPhone are included, it looks like just a 20 percent profit for the iPhone.
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Apple acquired Fingerworks, touch gesture company, to create iPhone
It really wouldn't be an Apple device if it didn't involve the practical kidnapping of a pair of inventors and secretive technology buyouts, and the iPhone seems to be no exception. Fingerworks were struggling to keep their dream of gesture-operated gadgetry alive when the company suddenly closed up shop a year and a half ago.
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Idiot pays $112.50 for the worst iPhone email address ever
the.iphone.from.apple at gmail.com actually sold for a whopping $112.50 on eBay.
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iPhone interface analysis from an actual usability expert (gasp!)
Bruce Tognazzini has a lot of great things to say about the iPhone, as well as a lot of critiques. Tog goes in and picks some nits with various usability elements of the iPhone as a phone, an iPod, and an internet communicator. Here's my summary of Tog's opinions on the iPhone for you...
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Friday, January 19, 2007
iPhone Costs Only $245.83 to Build
According to iSuppli Corp., the 4GB Apple iPhone costs only $245.83 to manufacture, with the 8GB model checking in at $280.83. What are your thoughts?
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Download the iPhone Ringtone
Diggers might remember that Steve Jobs took a call on the iPhone during the Keynote. Well there was a unique ringtone there. A reader extracted the audio from the presentation, cleaned up the static, and removed the sound of 1,000 fanboys wetting themselves. Here it is, for use in your own cellphone.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Cisco Demanded to have a access to iTunes in return for Sharing iPhone Name
Cisco spells out what's in the 'iPhone' name: Cisco is understood to have demanded access to Apple's closed media distribution service, the online iTunes store, in return for sharing the 'iPhone' brand name at the centre of a trademark dispute between the two groups.
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Friday, January 12, 2007
Phil Schiller's Close-up Demo of Apple's iPhone
Apple, Inc's Phil Schiller shows John Blackstone of CBS the many features of the iPhone.
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UPDATE on Cisco's iPhone Trademark: Cisco Responds
Commentary from Mark Chandler, Cisco's SVP and General Counsel, on Apple's infringement of Cisco's iPhone trademark. "Most importantly, this is not a suit against Apple’s innovation, their modern design, or their cool phone. It is not a suit about money or royalties. This is a suit about trademark infringement."
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Apple VPs confirm no 3rd party iPhone apps
The lucky Gizmodo guys got their paws on an actual iPhone plus an hour of Q&A with some Apple VPs. Here are some of their scoops: The OS isn't going to be "OS X for real." It's more like a pseudo-OS X and, like the iPod, it will not have a public API and open development. Which is a shame. I'd really love to see the iPod and iPhone get opened up.
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Thursday, January 11, 2007
Cingular Confirms iPhone Will "Require" 2 Year Contract
Bad news for everyone on Cingular who was hoping to buy an iPhone outright, Cingular is confirming that the iPhone will not be sold without a 2 year contract.
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Wireless device makers slip on iPhone news
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of wireless device makers slumped Tuesday as news of the iPhone from Apple Computer Inc. surfaced. Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the device at the Macworld trade show in San Francisco. Research in Motion saw its shares trading down 6.3% at $133.14 after the news!
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Official Apple iPhone Website
So sleek, so clean, so pretty. What is it about Apple products that makes them look so yummy?
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The Keynote - Part1
Steve Jobs's Keynote Address 'unveiling' iPhone. [Part1 - subsequent parts may be viewed directly from youtube, under the user name who submitted this]
Woz on the iPhone and Apple, Inc.
"As I was running down the street to dive into the throngs of nerds at Moscone South, I ran into Steve Wozniak. Yeah, you read that right... Woz, on a Segway... he talked about the iPhone and Apple, Inc."
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Apple Announces iPhone
Here is the first pic of the iPhone from today's keynote [pic]. Runs OSX.
and, the videos:
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Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Think Secret Releases Re-Cap of Macworld '07 Rumors, iPhone: 90% Chance
With some 24 hours until Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes the stage at the Moscone Center in San Francisco to kick off Macworld Expo, Think Secret presents a compilation of information we have received and reported over the last number of months concerning Apple's anticipated announcements.
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Sunday, January 7, 2007
iPhone Gets Macworld Hang-Up
Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi says that Apple had not yet received U.S. regulatory approval for the phone, a fact that greatly reduces the probability that Apple would introduce the music-playing cell phone at its annual expo in San Francisco.
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