Counterclockwise: Apple iPhone 3G and 3GS, Nokia 808 PureView

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Counterclockwise: Apple iPhone 3G and 3GS, Nokia 808 PureView

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Salad days of iPhone and iOS

In 2008 Apple unveiled its second-ever phone - the iPhone 3G. It dropped the aluminum body in favor of plastic (for better reception), added 3G and introduced GPS. Aluminum backs will later return with the iPhone 5, but that's a story for a different time.



A year after that came the first S update to its smartphone, the iPhone 3GS. It brought a new camera, a 3MP shooter that recorded video (a first for iPhones), voice control and dialing (but not Siri yet) and a compass to further improve the Maps experience.



Apple was still using Google Maps that was on &quot;iPhone OS 3.0&quot;. With the advent of Android, Google-Apple relations soured and in 2012 Apple unveiled iOS 6 with its own mapping solution thanks to mapping data licensed from TomTom, although that one certainly didn't do too hot.




The new Maps

Siri had been added in the interim with iOS 5, replacing the simple voice commands with a &quot;digital assistant&quot;, a type of software that has become very popular and each major OS has its own take on the matter, most recently Windows Phone's Cortana.

Going back to 2009, iPhone OS 3.0 also added support for Nike+ to work with sporting accessories and sensors. Like the voice control this move presaged later developments, in this case the brand new Health app in iOS 8. Of course, these early products were a lot more basic than their eventual replacements.

Apple keeps its iOS and iPhone refresh cycles separate but as soon as the iOS 6 was out the gate, rumors for the iPhone 5 intensified. It was to have a 4.1&quot; 1137 x 640 screen, up from the 3.5&quot; 960 x 640 screen standardized with the iPhone 4 (we covered the screen sharpness wars that it started last time).

This rumor proved fairly accurate, the screen diagonal was 4&quot; but other than that it was correct on the move to a bigger screen. The iPhone 5s used the same screen specs but it may be time for a new update as rumors are swirling of 4.7&quot; screens for the next update.

Symbian and Nokia decline, Windows Phone to be the savior

Nokia was having a rough time in 2011. When the time came around for the Q2 report we were already expecting to hear of lower profits but Reuters reported that the Finns may be looking at a loss in Q2 and Q3. It was expected that the Windows Phone 7.5 devices to come in October that year would help bring Nokia back into profitability.



It took the company a lot longer than two quarters to get back on its feet and the final solution included selling the phone division to Microsoft. That wasn't the only woe facing the company as information leaked that Nokia will be closing down its virtual stores France, Spain and the Netherlands.

Reports that Nokia only managed to sell 2.2 million Lumia phones in Q1 2012 weren't very encouraging either.

Despite issues Nokia pushed ahead and in June 2012 the legendary 808 PureView went on sale. The obvious question was &quot;Why Symbian? Why not Windows Phone?&quot; and the head of marketing for Nokia US clarified that the company is working with Microsoft to bring PureView to Windows Phone.




Nokia 808 PureView unboxed

That was realized later with the Nokia Lumia 920 in September that year but not in the way everyone expected - in lieu of the whopping 41MP sensor, Nokia revealed &quot;PureView Phase 2&quot; with optical image stabilization. A 41MP sensor eventually landed with the Lumia 1020 but that took another year.

About a month prior to the 1020 announcement, Nokia revealed that it will stop shipping Symbian phones and the 808 PureView will be the platform's last hurrah. Well, at least it was a proper farewell.

Android does xenon too

Various feature phones and Symbians boasted powerful xenon flashes in the past but in June 2010 Motorola announced the MILESTONE XT720, the first Android with xenon. It had an 8MP camera capable of 720p @ 24fps video and ran Android 2.1 Eclair on a meager 600MHz processor and 256MB RAM.




Motorola MILESTONE XT720

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