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today Apple is going to reinvent the phone it's hard to believe but five years ago no one knew what to make of Steve Jobs his announcement calling it iPhone and Apple put this out there big device of the time what's the ipod and that was viewed as this complete category killer so the idea that Apple could come in and do that with a phone was pretty much unheard of and the expectations were super high software that's at least five years ahead of what's on any other phone and even though I phones were about 200 to 300 dollars more expensive than other smartphones at the time more than six million units were sold iPhones first birthday the following year Apple released the 3g version this one boasted faster speeds and connection to the App Store causing crowds to line up and wait for its release I'm online for the third one three more versions have since debuted in the last three years the 3gs in 2009 the four and twenty ten in the 4s in 2011 the iphone has become apple's identity it makes it more than half its profits every quarter now to date apolis sold more than 250 million iphones worldwide obviously people love those basically a computer in my pocket I wouldn't like life without a name analysts say the next-generation iphone expected sometime this fall will have to up the ante to compete with other smartphones on the market a bigger screen better camera smaller doc just some of the features that are churning through the iphone rumor mill