hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and the iPhone one or the iPhone 2g as many
people call it was first announced 13 years ago today and I thought we'd take
a look at the design for those of you who haven't really seen one and then
we'll talk about how it is today that it's kind of transformed everything and
show you the interface and things like that and some of the wallpapers as well
and so the first thing is the design in fact this was one of my favorite designs
up until the iPhone 4 with the iPhone 3G and 3GS that came after this they got
rid of the aluminum back which I really liked so we have an aluminum back here
with a plastic base and under this plastic piece is where all the antennas
are for Wi-Fi and cellular and so at the time it actually had pretty good
cellular connectivity we have our 2 megapixel camera on the back and this
camera was just ok at the time it wasn't really that great and it didn't do video
either now on the left side we have our volume rocker just like today and our
silent switch and the silent switch and volume rocker up are both plastic and
these features have carried over to all of the new phones as well but they're
now stainless steel or aluminum so with the iPhone 11 iPhone 11 Pro iPhone 11
Pro max all of those things are still here but there's still a little bit
nicer than previously now on the top this is where it's a little bit
interesting we have a headphone jack and I apologize that it's a little bit dirty
I tried to clean it but I wasn't really willing to scrape something off of a 13
year old phone I couldn't get in there well enough and it still works so I
thought I'd leave it alone but the headphone jack you basically had to use
the included headphone jack or buy an adapter because you couldn't just plug
anything into here and then we have our SIM card slot full-size SIM and then a
plastic power sleep/wake button and you'll see this one is used heavily this
is my brother's phone that he found online and it's held up pretty well
given that it's 13 years old now on the right side of the phone there's nothing
and then on the bottom we have our 30 pin connector in the middle and then we
have a speaker and microphone again there's a bunch of junk in there you
can't really get it out without possibly taking the bottom off and thoroughly
cleaning it now 13 years later it still works and turns on we have a 3.5 inch
display this is B for retina displays and then on the top
we have our speaker and on the bottom our home button so if we click it you'll
see it still turns on and we get our wallpaper on the home screen this is a
stock wallpaper and then we slide to unlock which a lot of people still miss
so that slide to unlock was something that was shown a couple times by Steve
Jobs on the stage when they announced this and honestly this phone has held up
really well all of these years later and as you can see we still have the
original grid layout but we don't have our wallpaper in the background and I
think that was due to a memory issue with this phone it just couldn't support
that so that came later on now if we take a look at some of the wallpapers if
we go into settings you'll see it does work and then we can scroll and
everything and that was pretty mind-blowing at the time that you could
just scroll and touch your phone like that but if we go into wallpaper you'll
see all of the original wallpapers and I'll link to these in the description so
you can check them out yourself but you can tap on the wallpaper and see it you
can't scroll through them and you can set it but again it only sets on the
homes or the lock screen not the home screen so here's some of the original
ones we had a flower we had the Mona Lisa and a few other
things as well so a bunch of famous paintings and things like that so that
was the original for the phone so again I'll link to those in the description
but you can't see those all at once or swipe through them or anything like that
now when we go back into settings it starts at the beginning again if we go
to general and then about you can see once it loads here that we're at iOS or
iPhone OS 3.1.3 so it's pretty old and that was the latest version you could
get on this but it still works and it's pretty impressive that it's still
working 13 years later now battery life on the original iPhone was not that
great I remember charging it around 2:00 p.m. that was better than many other
small smart phones you usually had to charge them a couple times a day and
this one unless I was using it very little I did have to charge it
throughout the day but that's just what to expect with something that small in a
small form-factor that was pretty amazing at the time but again the
battery life wasn't great who knows what battery how
is at this point but we're still on a 13-year old battery and it still works
fine I do need to charge it a little bit but I'm surprised it's still working as
well as it is given that it's 13 years old and everything still works such as
the iPhone part or the music part so you can scroll through your music and I
remember being sort of blown away when they showed this for the first time when
Steve Jobs demoed swiping up and down through music it was incredible we have
our artists here and then if we rotate sideways we had cover flow and I really
miss cover flow I wish they'd bring it back I think it was a great interface if
we go to I will go to this one we can tap and rotate around and it just works
really well you still have to sync everything
through the connector on the bottom with iTunes or finder now and Catalina and
everything still works so if we go into the camera we'll wait for camera to load
you'll see how slow it is and I'll bring in the 11pro Max and we'll just take a
photo of it you'll see it's nice and slow it was never really a great camera
but it was great that the phone had a camera on it so it was nice that we had
it we'll go back to the camera roll roll and there's not a whole lot here in fact
here's a an iPhone 6 that you can see I took a photo with it from a previous
video years ago and Safari still works but why was it slow so if you go into
here it's slow you get that little grid
pattern that if you're familiar with this older one when it didn't have a lot
of memory you'd get a little grid and then it would fill in and load over time
as you wait for it so you'll see it's loading but it's pretty slow and not so
great but in general we still have the same layout today in fact I would love
to see Apple update that if we go to the home screen you'll see they're pretty
familiar as far as the layout we still can't put things in the order we really
want but we do have multiple pages of apps and things like that but
unfortunately because this is 2g you can't really use it on the network
anymore it's not using anything really fancy it
was edge internet so it was really slow and we didn't even have turn by turn
navigation at that time so it was a start it was lacking compared to some
other competitors but the revolutionary thing is the inner
face that's held up really well to this day we don't have notifications or
anything like that but this really sold me on the idea of smartphones at the
time and I ended up purchasing this after they released it and reduce the
cost originally it was about $600 for 8 gigabytes and they brought that down
after that but you still had to sign a two-year contract with what's now AT&T
so it wasn't the greatest of deals because it worked for AT&T and Apple but
considering this was $600 and you can get an iPhone XR for around $600 or an
iPhone 8 plus we've come a long way and prices even though they're kind of
expensive with the higher-end phones haven't increased as much as you may
have thought they had but in general it's a great phone it's an it's
laughably small at this point compared to the new ones but it's something I
missed using it and it was really revolutionary
at the time and just a quick side note on it is when I use this and I would
bring it out in public it was almost like I was a celebrity people would
gather around me in a mall just to see a demo of how photos work or how you could
touch your screen and how you could scroll through things people were amazed
by that so when you scrolled they just they'd never seen it before so really
for the first few months that I owned it if I used it in a store people would
gather around and ask about every single time so it was sort of like you were a
celebrity if you had this phone even though it was just a phone it was kind
of interesting to kind of run through it demo if you had one of these people were
really amazed by it so I really think it's held up well I would love to see
Apple return to some of the skeuomorphic looks on it I would like to see maybe a
hybrid version of that I've talked about that in the past but the design overall
is held up well and it still feels fairly modern but now with Android
competing pretty pretty well and and there's so many competitors I think
that's really pushing Apple to do something a little bit different and
hopefully we see that in the future we may not see major changes but hopefully
we see something but 13 years ago this was announced and then it released later
on I bought one I think around August or September I don't remember exactly but
it was amazing at the time and I look forward to the new one every single year
let me know what you think of the original iPhone in the comments
below are you really happy with where we are today I think this phone obviously
was amazing at the time and really pushed us to where we are today but with
Samsung doing things like folding phones or whether or not that's where we go
with iPhone is hard to say but I would love to know your opinion when it comes
to what we have today as far as the modern iPhones and what you would like
to see not just for iOS 13 and iOS 14 but what you would like to see with
iPhone 12 or iPhone 13 or iPhone 14 down the road what do you think as far as the
design what features could they add and would you like to see them go back to
something like we have here let me know your thoughts about all of that in the
comments below I always love to read what you have to say about it in the
comments if you'd like to get your hands on the wallpapers of course I'll link
them in the description as I said earlier and if you haven't subscribed
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as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time