For example, if you see the Gmail icon, you have new mail messages. A battery icon might indicate a low battery. You can read the full notifications by holding your finger down on this bar, which displays a quick view of your notifications, and then swiping down with your finger, which reveals the full notifications.

3.Press the Lock button. Doing so will "wake up" the iPhone's screen and display the Lock screen.

The 3D Touch display first introduced with the iPhone 6s and featured in all but one model released since then is smart enough to sense pressure, allowing you to take quick actions from the home screen just by long-pressing on an app icon. The Portrait Mode on the iPhone 8 Plus can add sophisticated lighting effects with a tap. And the iphoet X can scan your face to log you in, even if you grow a beard and start wearing glasses. Android phone makers are said to be two years behind Apple's Face ID.

Simplicity.

I love how apple have created most complex design yet a simple and fabulous working revolutionary smartphone. When iPhone was first launched back in 2007, it never came with instruction manual on how to use your phone like we use to see in Nokia and Samsung phones. Because apple always have focused on simplicity so much that they got their users speak for them about it.

Apple iPhones are extremely powerful yet easy to use. I was a Nokia loyalist prior switching to apple. There was never a single year when my brand new Nokia was started lagging terribly. The last Nokia I had was an experimental Nokia N9 with MeeGo OS. It did the same thing, started lagging and I had to replace it.

In Dec 2013, I got iPhone 5s. Right 2 months after release. I still have it, Its been Almost 3 years and 6 months. Apart form a worn out battery which is obvious, The phone has absolutely zero problems. I have dropped it several times played graphic intense games like real racing and GTA san andreas etc for hours. But that champ still goes on without any problems. This was the only reason I bought a MacBook pro and shifted to apple ecosystem.

If you think about it, cost of owning an apple device (cost of ownership)is pretty cheap as compared to buying out new phones every year or two.

I never had a device which runs the same as its brand new after 3 years of heavy usage. That is why I switched to iPhone and apple ecosystem.

Firstly, i want to explain what is smartphone, smartphone is a mobile phone that performs many of the functions of a computer, typically having a touchscreen interface, Internet access, and an operating system capable of running downloaded apps same with Iphone made by combines a computer , iPod, digital camera and cellular phone into one device for facilitate users from carrying various electronic devices. iPhone smartphone released by Apple company based in California. iPhones runs by using iOS systems(Operation System) also know as OS. In contrast to samsung, oppo and many other smartphone brands out there using android to run’s the smartphone. The advantages of using iPhone is different to smartphones that use android, iPhone allows users to use facetime to connect iPhone users. Then iPhone also have a siri to find a information by talking to the cell phone without writing. iPhone also using a iCloud to save any information of the users. Finally, iPhone have a app that not in android smartphone know as Find iPhone. For example if users iPhone loses their phone,their only need to open the app and put the iPhone ID and the app will searches where the phone located.

1. Lighting android should not be too bright. Because lighting is too bright can accelerate the start of tired eyes. Besides, room lighting should also be arranged in such a way that it will not differ from device lighting. The room is too dim to cause excessive contrast so that it will make the eye uncomfortable.

2. Device visibility to device should also be considered. The good distance between the eye and the android is about 30-40 cm. otherwise, try putting the android lower than the eye position, avoid getting used to playing the android while lying down. If your child watch the screen android, try to make the child not too close to the screen.

Among the advantages of the iPhone is hardware and software are both regulated and optimized by Apple itself.
The app store is well-kept, less worries for malware.
Good user support. For the advantages of android, Open Source is easy to modify.
Most smartphones can be enhanced with storage sizes through SD micro SD slot.
More phone options.

While for the lack of an iPhone it is limited storage.
The ecosystem is too confined
Difficult to make modifications. For android, the rate of malware infection is higher.
Unlike interface between different models and brands of smartphones.
Unpredictable support.

The Advantages of Android Vs Iphone

 1.Larger screen One of the distinguishing things between Android and iPhone is the party that develops the device. Only Apple itself develops iPhone, whereas Android looks like a "scant" project for all vendors. It certainly brings benefits to Android from the side of device design. With so many vendors developing Android-based devices, more and more Android models of mobile phones are born. These phones are finally present in various screen sizes. Phones based on Android have varied screen sizes, ranging from 3 inches to 7 inches. Most Android devices have been launched with more than 4 inches screen. Meanwhile, the iPhone up to now only has two screen sizes, namely 3.5 inches (first generation to iPhone 4S) and 4 inches (iPhone 5). For screen matters, Android can indeed boast of saying, "Our device has a screen with larger size than iPhone".

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When Apple shipped the iPhone in 2007, its radical design and incredible popularity caused not a ripple, but a tidal wave of change throughout the mobile phone handset industry. One reporter covering Spain’s Mobile World Congress in 2009 wrote that “the name on everyone’s lips was Apple, despite the Californian company playing no part in the show…. it’s little wonder that many of the devices and services unveiled in Barcelona owe more than a little to the trail blazed by the iPhone.”
Specifically, the iPhone prompted handset makers to abandon physical keyboards in favor of all-screen input and make thinner phones with much better screens capable of multi-touch input.

A casual observer might be forgiven for believing that Apple invented the App Store, or even cell phone apps. But cell phone app stores and apps had been around for years before Apple showed up.

But before the iPhone, installing phone apps was relatively complicated and problematic. You had to find a good store online, download the app to a desktop computer and follow the unique and often complicated directions for installation to the phone, which happened through the sync process. Each app maker had to be paid using PayPal or credit card. Uninstalling apps was rarely straightforward.

The iPhone App Store made all this obsolete. Apple iPhone forced users to set up an iTunes account with current credit card and password. To get software, users just find the app in the App Store, press “Install,” enter a password and watch the icon status bar for evidence that the install was complete.

The iPhone radically improved the processing for discovering, installing, paying for and uninstalling software. The process was so seamless and easy that it forced Apple-style App Stores on smart phone competitors and even desktop-software makers like Microsoft.

Apple’s granting of national carrier monopolies in the first couple of years, as well as strong control and censorship of apps, legitimized the practice of jailbreaking — the opening up of an iOS device to remove limitations imposed by Apple.

Users jailbreak their iPhones to use them with non-approved carriers, install non-approved software and to enable capabilities that locked phones can’t do.

The iPhone’s popularity and long list of limitations made “jailbreaking” a household word, and the practice of jailbreaking widespread and accepted, even among novice users.

Everybody had been talking about integrating music player functionality into phones for years, but it didn’t catch on among the majority of smart phone users until the iPhone. Apple even made an iTunes mobile application for other handset makers like Motorola to pre-install on phones. But most people didn’t bother. After the iPhone, music on phones became standard for most people.

Before the iPhone, the idea of using an on-screen keyboard on a phone or tablet seemed unimaginable. The biggest initial complaint with the iPhone itself was about the screen-based keyboard. Rather than giving users what they were screaming for, which was an add-on, peripheral or third-party range of physical keyboards, Apple deliberately made sure they were unavailable. If you wanted to use an iPhone, you had to use an on-screen keyboard.

Apple dragged the user community kicking and screaming into the future of keyboards. After a couple of years, everybody got used to the idea. When Apple shipped the iPad, with its much bigger version, it seemed like a luxury. And ten years from now, when most computing is done with an on-screen touch keyboard, historians will remember that the iPhone made it possible by forcing the user community to overcome their resistance to the idea of an on-screen keyboard.

Apple’s accelerometer in the original iPhone was something of an exotic novelty to many users. The current model has accelerometer, gyroscope and compass, which thousands of app designers rely on to create really amazing effects. Some apps, like games, can use these sensors to create all kinds of illusions and innovative effects. Others, like Instapaper, use them for simple input (to scroll text).

Thanks to the iPhone, these sensors are now simply expected by both developers and users.

It’s hard to imagine now, but before the iPhone, most smart phones has little pens for writing and pushing on-screen buttons. They were clunky, inelegant and easy to lose. And they still exist. But after the iPhone’s elegant touch screen, styli on phones have been relegated to the periphery.

The PC-Mac wars have been raging since 1984. People tend to choose sides and stick with them. Apple, which had one-digit desktop PC market share for most of its history, has always sought ways to get users to switch to Macintosh. Apple launched a famous TV ad campaign staring John Hodgman as “PC” and Justin Long as “Mac” with the explicit message that PC users should switch to Mac.

In the past five years, Apple has in fact made enormous gains in market share, thanks mainly to the iPod and the iPhone. These devices served as a kind of “gateway drug” for PC users to discover the larger world of Apple products.

The vast majority of both iPod and iPhone users were and are Windows users. These devices gradually introduce PC users to Apple’s way of doing things. They get people into Apple stores. The constant iTunes updates bring people to the Apple web site. Eventually, some PC users make the switch, but not after being softened by one of Apple’s mobile devices.

The fourth largest handset market in the world is gadget-crazy Japan. Before the iPhone, it was common knowledge that only Japanese companies could succeed in that market. Nokia spent a fortune trying to succeed in Japan, only to reach the 2 percent market share mark before essentially giving up and going away.

But by 2009, just a year and a half after Nokia left in defeat, Apple had acquired an astonishing 72 percent of Japan’s smart phone market. It turns out Japanese consumers will buy foreign phones — if they’re cool enough.

Before the iPhone App Store came along, mobile gaming meant dedicated pocket gaming systems from companies like Nintendo and Sony. Now, the mobile games market is rising to new heights, and most of the growth is thanks to the iPhone. The stand-alone systems are no longer growing, as gamers and developers increasingly gravitate to the iPhone, and to a lesser extent, the Android platform. Some in the industry even speculate that dedicated handheld gaming systems are on their way out.

When Nokia made a play for a handset that combined cell phone functionality with mobile gaming in their 2003 N-Gage gadget, a few experts thought the convergence of phone and gaming had arrived. They were wrong. The phone was buggy, over-priced, clunky and ultimately rejected by users.

It wasn’t until the iPhone that cell phone gaming really took off.

A recurring problem of abuse and suicides at some Foxconn factories where iPhones are manufactured has made the horrible conditions at many Chinese factories common knowledge. While the iPhone factors are far safer and more humane than most, the idea that the warm-and-fuzzy iPhone you carry in your pocket may have been made by a worker driven to suicide has made the issue very real for millions of people, and has driven improvements in conditions in throughout China.

Computer scientists and user interface researchers have been working on touch computing for decades. And a decade from now, most computing will no doubt happen on touch screens.

It was the iPhone that brought the touch screen into mainstream acceptance and use.

The Apple iPhone may be the most influential consumer gadget ever, changing the way phones work, changing the way people see the world and changing human culture. Not bad for just four years.

In April 2003, at the "All Things Digital" executive conference, Jobs expressed his belief that tablet PCs and traditional PDAs were not good choices as high-demand markets for Apple to enter, despite receiving many requests for Apple to create another PDA. He believed that cell phones were going to become important devices for portable information access, and that mobile phones needed to have excellent synchronization software. At that time, instead of focusing on a follow-up to their Newton PDA, Jobs had Apple focus on the iPod. Jobs also had Apple develop the iTunes software, which can be used to synchronize content with iPod devices. iTunes was released in January 2001.On September 7, 2005, Apple and Motorola released the ROKR E1, the first mobile phone to use iTunes. Jobs was unhappy with the ROKR, feeling that having to compromise with a non-Apple designer (Motorola) prevented Apple from designing the phone they wanted to make. In September 2006, Apple discontinued support for the ROKR, and released a version of iTunes that included references to an as-yet unknown mobile phone that could display pictures and video.

On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs announced iPhone at the Macworld convention, receiving substantial media attention. Jobs announced that the first iPhone would be released later that year. On June 29, 2007, the first iPhone was released.

On June 11, 2007, Apple announced at the  Apple's Worldwide Develepors Conference that the iPhone would support third-party applications using the Safari engine. Third parties would be able to create Web 2.0 applications, which users could access via the internet. Such applications appeared even before the release of the iPhone; the first of these, called OneTrip, was a program meant to keep track of users' shopping lists. On June 29, 2007, Apple released version 7.3 of iTunes to coincide with the release of iPhone. This release contains support for iPhone service activation and syncing.

According to The Wall Street Jurnal, the iPhone is manufactured in the Shenzhen factory of the Taiwanese company Hon Hai (also known as Foxconn). Also, according to recent news, Apple will shortly begin outsourcing the manufacturing of iPhones.

1. If you don't want to pay for a data plan, the iPhone has no option for that. A data plan will cost you about twenty dollars a month. You need a data plan for the iPhone to be able to communicate over the Internet.

2. It is very inefficient to make a simple phone call with the iPhone, particularly if you don't have a person in your contacts list. You can dial a phone number that you know much more quickly with a keypad that has real, physical buttons.

3. On the iPhone touch typing for texting and email is very slow as compared to a regular keyboard; this has been somewhat mitigated by Braille apps, of which there are now two. However, you should know that research has shown that, on average, a blind person entering data using the touch-screen QWERTY keyboard is writing at about three words per minute. By contrast, users of the built-in Braille apps have been clocked at around 23 words per minute.

4. The iPhone is very much a technology requiring good hand-ear coordination. People who want real buttons that they can operate silently by touch will be very disappointed in the iPhone.

5. Battery life for the iPhone is still an issue. You have to charge it at least once a day—a lot more if you use GPS.