# Vectorized iPhone X with shadow mockup

> Source: https://furleybio.com/blog/vectorized-iphone-x-with-shadow-mockup/
> Published: 2018-07-26 | Updated: 2025-09-26
> Author: Furley Bioextracts
> Language: en-US

iPhone is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPhone line of products use Apple’s iOS mobile operating system software.

The first-generation iPhone was released on June 29, 2007, and multiple new hardware iterations with new iOS releases have been released since.

> The user interface is built around the device’s multi-touch screen, including a virtual keyboard. The iPhone has Wi-Fi and can connect to cellular networks.

An iPhone can shoot video (though this was not a standard feature until the [iPhone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone) 3GS), take photos, play music, send and receive email, browse the web, send and receive text messages, follow GPS navigation, record notes, perform mathematical calculations, and receive visual voicemail.

`Other functionality, such as video games, reference works, and social networking, can be enabled by downloading mobile apps.`

As of January 2017, Apple’s App Store contained more than 2.2 million applications available for the iPhone.

### Content

1. History and availability
2. Production
3. Hardware
4. Software

## History and availability

![mobile phone 1875813 1280](https://d155kity4o7fyf.cloudfront.net/2020/06/mobile-phone-1875813_1280-1024x682.jpg)

Development of what was to become the iPhone began in 2004, **when Apple started to gather a team of 1,000 employees** (including Jonathan Ive, the designer behind the iMac and iPod) to work on the highly confidential “Project Purple”.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs steered the original focus away from a tablet (which Apple eventually revisited in the form of the iPad) towards a phone.

[Apple](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone) created the device during a secretive collaboration with Cingular Wireless (which became AT&T Mobility) at the time—at an estimated development cost of US$150 million over thirty months

## Sales and profits

Apple sold 6.1 million first generation iPhone units over five quarters.

Sales in the fourth quarter of 2008 temporarily surpassed those of **Research In Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry** sales of 5.2 million units, which briefly made Apple the third largest mobile phone manufacturer by revenue, after Nokia and Samsung (however, some of this income is deferred.

*Recorded sales grew steadily thereafter, and by the end of fiscal year 2010, a total of 73.5 million iPhones had been sold.*