iPhone - 10 Years Later #Helpful Post

ey guys this is Austin the original

iPhone is ten years old today

but how have things changed over the

last decade take a look at the original

iPhone today what jumps out to me is it

actually doesn't seem to have changed

that much over the years

so it still made out of aluminum it

still has the same sort of general shape

of the current iPhone yeah it's a lot

smaller but actually did get a lot of

stuff right the first time

side-by-side with the iPhone 7 there is

a very clear evolution here the design

and build quality really do hold up

today and that is not something you can

say about other smart phones from the

time there were definitely some issues

with the original iPhone though one of

the big ones was an orange supported 2g

network which was weird at a time that

3G was becoming a lot more popular

because of that when AT&T; shut up their

2g network earlier this year it meant

that the original iPhone sort of trying

to unlock it is no longer usable as a

phone

there are also some weird quirks like

the recessed headphone jack so because

of the way the phone was designed with

this taper a normal pair of headphones

actually will not fit in you're going to

need some kind of extender the biggest

issue with the original iPhone though

was price when this came out back in

2007 it cost $600 and that was on

contract that's pretty much unheard of

today doesn't be fair a couple months

later Apple did drop the price to $400

as well as discontinuing the skimpy

little four gigabyte model but still

this was an incredibly expensive phone

back in this day all this makes a lot

more sense though when you look at it

compared to other smartphones at the

time so the iPhone looks pretty clean

and toriana is not that different from

phone for today very sleek it's very

minimal where something like the

sidekick which is a popular smartphone

one of the day looks a lot more busy

it's eating to forget just how big of a

deal phone foot the sidekick or back in

the day the way yeah it actually did

have the super cool sliding mechanism

almost like a modern-day fidget spinner

nicely times Ken but when you look at it

it's such a different design it really

does feel a lot older than the iPhone

another major competitor was the note

kit in 95 and well this does definitely

look like it's straight out of 2007

there are actually a lot of cool things

that this could do the iPhone couldn't

well the main ones was actually the

camera no the iPhone did have a camera

but this actually has that proof solid 5

megapixel autofocus camera it also has a

little shutter thing which is kind of

cool I also had a front-facing camera

which the iPhone didn't get until the

iPhone or it supported 3G and to top it

all off it had now like t9 when you

slide it up when

down if she had media controls selfie

time

alright a little crunchy blood focus

here and that actually doesn't look bad

honestly this is probably a little bit

better than some budget smart phones

I've tried recently move over to the

iPhone and hella we do we get the

awesome old-school slide to unlock but

there is a slightly less impressive 2

megapixel camera here wow it's not that

bad but iPhones have definitely come a

long way as far as cameras go what

really set the iphone apart though was

its software the hardware itself was

fairly underpowered but what they're

able to really nail with iPhone OS there

was a lot missing when this first launch

though not only was there no

multitasking but it didn't even have an

app store until the second year but what

really saved it with the fundamentals

were absolutely there

stuff like scrolling felt way more

natural than pretty much any other phone

on the market and suddenly multi-touch

was really cool

keep in mind back in the day most phones

didn't even have touchscreens

and the ones that did typically use the

stylus the iPhone and iPhone OS was a

huge leap but that's not all

inside this slightly suspicious-looking

black box is a prototype for the

original iPhone now the hardware itself

is basically unchanged compared to

current iPhones that actually ended up

shipping what is different about this is

the actual software experience there was

a ton of secrecy around the original

iPhone so much so they create a super

basic UI so that if something did leak

no one would really know what they were

up to we're also hopeful for testing as

you can see we have all kinds of

different options what's cool is the

little pink phone Easter Egg on the

bottom all the basic functions of the

phone are here so not only can you get

received sms's but there's also a bunch

of pre-programmed test messages which

sadly don't work since it isn't on a

network there's also the phone dialer

you can get to the camera which in

theory will work although it might not

be the prettiest thing in the world but

this really was meant for testing

there's also a full diagnostic menu

which can show everything from the Wi-Fi

the Bluetooth accelerometer if the

touchscreen is working you can see the

camera button there's a lot of very

interesting stuff with this but yes it's

a prototype

and it was really meant more for

avoiding leaks than anything else that's

a cool piece of Apple history after 10

years it's hard to argue with just how

important this iPhone

was pretty much any mario smartphone

today owes at least something to the og

so what do you guys think about the

original iPhone let me know in the

comments below and I will catch you on

the next one