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The iPhone numbering scheme is interesting.
Let's limit ourselves to the main models, not the entry-level and pro ones.
We start with the original (EDGE/2G 2007 model).
Then we have the follow-up, the iPhone 3G, and the successor, the 3GS, which added a faster chip and the ability to shoot video.
Then there's the 4 (originally speculated to be 4G), 4S (which came with 4G available), 5 (first LTE iPhone), 5S, 6, 6S, 7, 8, X ("ten") (released alongside the 8, and the first to lack a home button), XS, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.
It seems that the 3GS is effectively the iPhone 3, counted separately from the 3G. However, the 4S, 5S, 6S, and XS weren't counted separately (for example, the phone after the 4S was the 5, not the 6).
And they skipped 9, and made their next line of home button phones the "SE".
Yet iPhone 16, ignoring the SE (but counting the
, the 10R, the 5R, etc.... but counting the 8.... and counting the "S" variants as separate models....
Is the nineteenth iteration.
Let's limit ourselves to the main models, not the entry-level and pro ones.
We start with the original (EDGE/2G 2007 model).
Then we have the follow-up, the iPhone 3G, and the successor, the 3GS, which added a faster chip and the ability to shoot video.
Then there's the 4 (originally speculated to be 4G), 4S (which came with 4G available), 5 (first LTE iPhone), 5S, 6, 6S, 7, 8, X ("ten") (released alongside the 8, and the first to lack a home button), XS, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.
It seems that the 3GS is effectively the iPhone 3, counted separately from the 3G. However, the 4S, 5S, 6S, and XS weren't counted separately (for example, the phone after the 4S was the 5, not the 6).
And they skipped 9, and made their next line of home button phones the "SE".
Yet iPhone 16, ignoring the SE (but counting the
, the 10R, the 5R, etc.... but counting the 8.... and counting the "S" variants as separate models....Is the nineteenth iteration.
