With Apple having launched its first iPhone on June 29, 2007, the popular handset officially hit its landmark five-year anniversary of its launch on Friday, June 29, 2012.

Commemorating the milestone achievement of the iPhone, Strategy Analytics released its latest statistics on Wednesday, revealing that the nearly 250 million iPhone units cumulatively shipped worldwide over the last five years helped Apple generate cumulative revenues to the tune of approximately $150 billion.

Noting that the “iPhone portfolio has become a huge generator of cash and profit for Apple," Neil Mawston - Strategy Analytics’ executive director – said: "A quarter of a billion iPhones have been shipped cumulatively worldwide in the first five years since launch and Apple reaches its fifth birthday at the top of its game."

Meanwhile, pointing out that the Apple’s global brand ranking has catapulted from 44th rank to the top-notch spot ever since the iPhone’s release five years back, retail outlet VoucherCodes. co. uk said that, at present, the iPhone’s outrageous popularity can be gauged from the fact that the number of iPhone units sold by Apple per day surpasses the number of babies born in the world!

In fact, ever since Apple co-founder and late CEO Steve Jobs’ 2007 unveiling of the iPhone as a "revolutionary mobile phone," which was also a "widescreen iPod," and a "breakthrough Internet communications device," the popular Apple handset has been consistency on an upward trajectory, helping Apple report record-breaking quarters and ever-growing sales.