Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  Stonewall(ProperNoun) A series of riots in 1969 New York City, beginning with the patrons of the gay bar The Stonewall Inn resisting police arrest, which marked the beginning of the militant gay rights movement. 2  stonewall(Noun) A wall made up of stone.
The history of the iPhone line of phones begins with a direction from Steve Jobs to Apple Inc. 's engineers, whereby he asked them to investigate touchscreens and a tablet computer, which later came to fruition with the iPad. Also, many have noted the device's similarities to Apple's previous touch-screen portable device, the Newton MessagePad. Like the Newton, the iPhone is nearly all screen. Its form factor is credited to Apple's head of design, Jonathan Ive.
Apple designs the iPhone, but the components that, when put together, make something called an iPhone are manufactured all over the world. It is assembled mostly in China. But here is a list of where its components are made: 1  Accelerometer: Bosch in Germany. 2  Audio Chipsets and Codec: Cirrus Logic in the United States (outsourced for manufacturing). 3  Baseband processor: Qualcomm in the United States (outsourced for manufacturing). 4  Batteries: Samsung in South Korea. 5  Cameras: Sony in Japan.