On 40th Birthday, A Track Down Of 11 Iconic Cell Phones In History

#2 Apple iPhone

Development of what was to become the iPhone began in 2004, when Apple started to gather a team of 1000 employees to work on the highly confidential "Project Purple", the team also included Apple’s iconic designer, Jonathan Ive, who designed the first iPhone. Apple CEO Steve Jobs steered the original focus away from a tablet, what it later turned out to be iPad, towards a phone.

Jobs unveiled the iPhone to the public on January 9, 2007, at the Macworld 2007 convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The two initial models, a 4 GB model priced at US$ 499 and a 8 GB model at US$ 599, went on sale in the United States on June 29, 2007. Even the first launch of iPhone had hundreds of customers lined up outside the Apple stores. The passionate reaction to the launch of the iPhone resulted in sections of the media dubbing it as 'Jesus phone'.

#1 HTC G1

The HTC G1, also known a ‘Dream’, was an Internet-enabled Smartphone designed by HTC. It featured a trackball, tiny screen and was the first phone to be running the Android operating system, which was purchased and developed by Google to compete with Symbian and Apple's iPhone, then market leaders.

The device was released in the U.S. on 22 October 2008; in the UK on 30 October 2008; and became available in other European countries including Austria, Netherlands, and the Czech Republic in early 2009.

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