Swift Vortex

The Swift Vortex is a series of smartphones manufactured by Swift in 2009, and was discontinued in 2014. Their default operating system is Ripple, and the first model of the Vortex, the Uno was released in August 3rd 2009. The latest and last model of the Vortex line of phones was 2014's Vortex Cinque from May 20th 2014. The Vortex remained to get updates for Ripple until 2016. The last version of Ripple the Vortex supported was Ripple 6.

History and development
In 2006, Swift announced at a special event that they were developing on a mobile phone project simply codenamed "Indigo" with a planned release date of in quote; "Either mid-2009 or 2010". Later on in late 2008, an update to the previous announcement was made which announced the official name of the device was going to be "Vortex", and that you are now able to pre-order the phone for delivery on release.

The first model of the Vortex was released in the Republic of Wilson and Rochester in August 3rd 2009, while below were the release dates to other continents:


 * Flag of the United States.svg USA: August 4th 2009
 * Flag of Europe.svg EU: August 6th 2009
 * Rest of the world: August 7th 2009

In November 6th 2014, a presentation was shown at a Swift event showing the future of Swifts mobile line, and had a segment about the Vortex line, heres a transscript from that segment: "So, what about the Vortex line? We are sad to announce to the Vortex fans here that we are discontinuing our Vortex line of mobile phones, but we will remain updating the devices OS version until 2016."

Software
The line by default runs the Ripple mobile OS, but other operating systems and forks of Ripple have been ported to the line, below is a table showing all of the operating systems the Vortex can run

Software support
The Vortex supports applications that support Ripple 3.x and newer, in August 2009, there was around 3 million+ applications that supported the Vortex line, and in September 2014, there was around 320 million applications that supported the Vortex. A huge development community has grown throughout the years to create custom applications, some of these applications have been added to the Swift AppMarket. Rooting a Vortex is required to run some applications (especially those that require root previleges), but rooting is not required to install custom applications to a Vortex device. The filetype for a Ripple application is .rpkg (RPKG stands for Ripple Package)