History of the iPhone

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Apple invented the so-Touch Screen Cell Phone? The war it launched against copiers is implied. However, this is not so sure!
For years, Apple has worked hard to prevent that we have access to documents concerning the creation of the iPhone. The designer of Sony spent at Apple who created the design was always "on vacation" and that's after many legal actions as Samsung, opponent in a lawsuit that Apple brings him, was able to obtain his testimony. We'll see what it reveals further.
When you compare smartphones over time, we ask a question. Who copied who?
These three devices are similar. When have they been launched on the market?iTunes Phone
By 2000, Nokia had already presented its partners and a mobile experimental tablet with a color touch screen and one physical button. But these ideas have not materialized into commercial products.
2004

    Scott Forstall brings together a team to work on a secret project. It was to create a mobile that Apple employees would like to use.
August 2005

    According to Apple, the company has developed a prototype called Purple that foreshadowed the current iPhone, and therefore existed before the model created under the concept of Sony. The Sony model would be an embellishment of this concept.
    Before retain, Apple would certainly be lots of possible designs in the pipeline, we even saw orthogonal form ...
September 2005

    Steve Jobs during a presentation unveils iTunes Phone. Manufactured by Motorola as the ROKR, it incorporates technology developed by Apple to play music. It is not very different from the Blackberry 8100 series.

February 2006

    The trial in San Jose reveals that Apple was working on a prototype called P2 looked like the iPod before following the model designed by Sony.
    Before the design of the iPhone's design, Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive had a meeting with a Sony designer who described their concept of a mobile touch without buttons. Following this, Shin Nishibori, a designer, was commissioned to design a prototype for Apple named Extrudo. This is the one you see below right. So Richard Howarth, designer of Apple, advises the new design "Sony" Jonathan Ive (email product during the trial), rather than the P2 left.

    However, Apple says that the Sony model is derived from a concept it has itself drawn in 2005, named Purple. This does not explain the conference in September 2005. And this does not alter the fact that it has chosen to retain the Sony design (not the Purple).
    Apple P2 vs Sony in 2006

    P2 prototype opposite the Sony prototype. Rounded corners ...
April 20, 2006

    Apple files patent D 618 677 describes a rectangular device with rounded corners and D 583087, black with a glass face. However the latter patent is questionable because the design is similar to that of a Sharp device already patented in Japan (JPN No. 1,241,638).
September 2006

    LG Prada presents a design competition, the IF Design Award and won the contest.
December 12, 2006

    LG KE850 Prada presents to the press. This is the subject of an article from Engadget published on 15 December 2006.
    It was a device has touch screen which was announced on 12 December 2006 and whose images have appeared on 15 December 2006.

December 2006

    Samsung filed a patent describing the F700.
January 9, 2007

    The first iPhone was introduced by Steve Jobs, then Apple's CEO, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. The device was sold June 29, 2007.
February 8, 2007

    The Samsung F700 is presented, according to Samsung's website. It has a touch screen.

June 29, 2007
    IPhone Start Marketing.
Contrary to suggest a campaign on the Web, the F700 did not precede the iPhone, but it is the case of Prada.However, Apple has not had time to copy the Prada or Samsung of copying the iPhone, all of these devices have been invented at that time. But the particular design of the iPhone is not unique to Apple, it comes from Sony.
We also know something about the gestation of the iPhone. He did not precede the iPad as the tablet was designed before the iPhone (but sold after). The iPhone is actually a miniature tablet, so it is so different from other mobiles. We also understand why the same ideas were developed in the competitors: they were in the air for a long time.