Gadgetory

ten years ago Apple completely transformed the tech landscape with the announcement of a single product the iPhone it was expensive it was different I still have my iPhone from 2007 and it still works well it still turns on at least ten years later what does it feel like next to the iPhone 7 plus I've been using them both side by side it's amazing the iPhone still feels the same mostly I mean there's a home button a touchscreen volume buttons but everything else is really different it feels ridiculously tiny more like an iPod it's round slightly chunky aluminum design actually feels more like the Apple watch than the super thin iPhone 7 the original iPhone only connected to ATT's edge network for speed slower than 3G my current SIM card wouldn't work even with an adapter but I could connect over Wi-Fi even that's a lot slower than anything possible on LTE now there's no GPS no front-facing camera and the rear camera doesn't even have flash the 3.5 inch screen is functional and it's not bad for 10 years ago but it's terrible compared to crisper brighter screens now but that original iPhone it's a great music player if you load mp3s on it's not able to stream to popular apps or really load any apps anymore the App Store which came later is on this iPhone with iOS 3 but I can't download any apps to it anymore pandora one of the few music streaming apps on the iPhone that I still have doesn't play if I leave the app background streaming came later photos look really muddy but I can still upload one to Facebook if I have the patience I can surf the web Google Maps still works the iPhones core idea is still the same but now the iPhone is about connecting to everything notifications Bluetooth messages videos photos tons of games plants vs. zombies was the best it got back in the old days but in 2007 there weren't any games the iPhone was a mac connected iPod with phone service where will the iPhone be in another 10 years maybe it'll be invisible absorbed into other gadgets maybe it'll be the hub to everything but it'll be hard to reinvent something as singular as that first iPhone I wouldn't Rock the old one anymore though goodbye old sticker covered pal