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iPhone 3G mobile phone

Apple2008/2010

Science Museum

Science Museum
London, United Kingdom

The iPhone 3G captured the public imagination. Sales of the smartphone drove a spike in the use of mobile internet services when it was introduced in Britain in 2007. In many ways the iPhone 3G arrived just at the right time. The third generation of mobile networks (3G) were becoming established, making mobile internet access a real possibility; touch screen technology had improved dramatically, which was an essential part of the way that users interacted with iPhones; and the amount of computing power that could be squeezed into small devices without draining the battery too quickly was growing rapidly. That, in combination with Apples carefully developed software and interaction design, made the iPhone 3G very desirable.

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  • Title: iPhone 3G mobile phone
  • Creator: Apple
  • Date Created: 2008/2010
  • Rights: © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, Science Museum Group Collection, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0
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