iPhone

Read this article to learn about some important points in the history of the iPhone, interesting facts about the iPhone, and useful specifications about the iPhone.

Even if you don’t have an iPhone yourself, you probably know someone who does. The iPhone is one of the most influential products from Apple Inc. and also one of the world’s most popular phones.

The letter “i” in iPhone, according to the explanation from Steve Jobs in 1998 when the first iMac was launched, stands for “internet, individual, instruct, inform and inspire”.

We have compiled some frequently asked questions about iPhone history to help you understand iPhone better.

I guess your answer might be Steve Jobs. It’s easy to give all the credits to Jobs, but the iPhone is actually the work of an entire team at Apple Inc. In fact, funnily enough, Steve Jobs initially hated the iPhone idea. But he ended up accepting this project but wanted complete control of the design. It turned out to be a game-changing device in the phone market we know today.

The first-generation iPhone was officially announced on January 9, 2007 and released in Europe on June 29, 2007, while in Austria and the Republic of Ireland on March 13, 2008.

iPhone 16 & iPhone 16 Pro, released on September 20, 2024.

The first iPhone ran on a custom version of iOS and combined an iPod, phone, and internet communicator in a single device.

• 2008: iPhone 3G featured an App Store, allowing users to download third-party apps.
• 2010: iPhone 4 introduced new features- Facetime and multitasking.
• 2013: iPhone 5S added the Touch ID feature.
• 2017: iPhone X eliminated the home button and introduced Face ID.
• 2020: iPhone 12 series introduced 5G capabilities.

iPhone supports a wide range of media formats for video, audio, and images. The following formats can be accepted by most iPhone models:

• Video container formats: MP4, 3GP, MOV (QuickTime), M4V
• Video Codecs: H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, M-JPEG, ProRes
• Audio formats: AAC, AIFF, MP3, ALAC, M4R, M4A, Linear PCM, WAV
• Image formats: HEIC, JPEG

Although the latest iPhones offer more codec support, sometimes you will still encounter some files that are saved in a format that is not compatible with iPhone. When you try to open these files on iPhone, you won’t succeed and will encounter error messages like "Unable to Play the Video". The good news is that you can easily fix it by converting these unrecognizable files to an iPhone-friendly format.

The following are some conversion programs from WonderFox that provide you with safe and efficient multimedia processing solutions: