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hey 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