Photo credit: Seong Jun Park via Yanko Design
You’ve seen the Samsung Galaxy Fold, Motorola RAZR and other foldable smartphones this year, but what if Apple were to surprise the world with a similar device in 2020 / 2021? It might look something like this iPhone Pro concept. Did you know that research and development into flexible OLED displays largely began in the late 2000s with the main intentions of implementing this technology in mobile devices? That’s right, they were probably in development when Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone back in 2007. Read more for additional pictures and information.
Apple has released twelve generations of iPhone models thus far, with each accompanied by one of the twelve major releases of the iOS operating system. The first-generation iPhone, released on June 29, 2007, was a GSM phone and established design precedents, like button placement that has persisted throughout all releases and a screen size maintained for the next four iterations.
