iPhone 3G, the App Store and iOS 2.0

Apple's second generation iPhone had been debuted in the summer of 2008. Internally, it was largely identical to its predecessor: same processor, identical type of display, same 2.0 megapixel camera, and same amount of memory. The new era has begun when iPhone 3G came to market. But the iPhone 3G, as the name implied, now supported 3G network operability, as well as GPS.

iPhone celebrates it's fifth birthday

Five years ago today, Apple unveiled the original iPhone to the world. It wasn't a tightly kept secret, shrouded in mystery and speculation like more recent Apple announcements, but it was arguably the world's most anticipated gadget launch.Although its form factor -- a capacitive touchscreen candy bar  hasn't dramatically changed over the years, each iteration of the iPhone has yielded important improvements. Let's take a look back at how the iPhone revolutionized what we thought a phone could be.