Gadgetory

the original iPhone unofficially named the iPhone 2g was the start of it all about 10 years ago with 8 gigabytes of capacity I'm holding the moore's deluxe of the two versions initially launched the other having a whopping 4 gigabytes of internal storage Apple sold about 6 million of these original iPhones so let's throw back and analyze how the build quality was back in 2007 now obviously with the phone that's old it is fairly difficult to find a brand new one like I always do with my regular durability tests this phone does appear to be an original condition no well at least it was before I got my hands on it we'll start with a scratch test the original iPhone is using the first iteration of Gorilla Glass this is basically tempered glass used on cell phone screens and as we know most tempered glass is a six on most skill of hardness but we are seeing some Nicks on this phone at a level five which never happens on the more recent Gorilla Glass versions like gorilla glass 4 or 5 so some things have improved in the glass Department since this phone was released it's also interesting that you can almost see the individual pixels on the screen the home button does not contain a fingerprint scanner and is made of plastic but it does still have that satisfying physical click that has been removed on the newer versions of the iPhone appear on the front facing camera just kidding there's no front-facing camera that feature was not implemented into the iPhone line up until the iPhone 4 the earpiece is buried pretty deep under that thick front glass it appears to be at the nylon variety but does not pull out easily like we've seen on some of the other phones I still think metal makes for the most ideal earpiece on a cell phone and luckily that's what we've been seeing in the later editions of the iPhone the back of the phone is pretty curious instead of antenna bands at the top and bottom of the phone we have more of an antenna chunk this black plastic section of the phone makes it a pretty large portion of the device body and it's definitely not the most aesthetic looking piece of tech but it did get the job done way back in the day lucky for us that silver collection the phone is indeed real metal solid cold and quality feeling in the hand and look it's an apple tree you can tell it's an apple tree from the Apple there in the center it's pretty neat it's incredibly small circle up here in the top corner is the 2 megapixel camera lens for picture taking video capabilities were not introduced until the iPhone 3GS 2 years later in 2009 the interesting thing is that this camera lens is made from plastic the little lip along the edge probably doesn't offer much protection either I am glad that Apple has improved on this with later versions of the iPhone delving into their own special blend of sapphire there is no flash so good luck with your low-light shots and no flashlight either the side volume buttons are made from plastic and even this mute switch is plastic now normally I'm an Android guy but this new switch is actually a really good idea I find myself wishing that my Galaxy s8 had one I'd be more than happy to trade Bixby for a mute switch take a look at that headphone jack there is nine years of innovation between the release of these two phones and I think it's a bit funny that the smaller iPhone has plenty of room for the headphone jack but Apple claims that the bigger phone which is almost twice the size did not have room I think that there's always room for Jack if you make room the power button is made from plastic and the bottom of the phone near the 30-pin charging port is also plastic there are a lot of different materials used in the build of this phone the chrome looking metal around the screen is much harder than the soft aluminum on the back it is much more scratch resistant as well and this is good if you ever were to set your phone facedown on something or drop it the lip around the screen would not be damaged or flake away like what happened with the plastic lip of the Galaxy s5 the original iPhone has a 3.5 inch TFT LCD display with a 320 by 480 pixel screen resolution proportionally compared to this 4k video you are watching the original iPhone screen resolution would look a lot like this utilizing about 2% of the total available pixels on screen the iPhone 7 currently has a bit better resolution at 750 by 1334 and the galaxy s 8 is one of the higher resolution phones in the industry with a 2 960 by 1440 display remember all of these sizes are just relative to the 4k viewing window that YouTube offers the phone lasted about 20 seconds under that flame test I think that the heavier and thicker front glass panel helped keep the heat off the pixels for longer luckily it did recover like the IPS screens that Apple uses now and the screen was totally functional a few seconds after the heat was removed and now for the bin test with all of the different materials used in this phone it will be interesting to see if there are any failure points the phone is so small there's almost not even enough room to grab a hold of it with both hands even after flexing the phone the plastic to metal joint along the back is still holding very I'm sure the small form-factor along with the thicker body style is helping considerably with the rigidness personally I'd be totally fine if smartphones started trending thicker I'd much rather have a larger battery that could last a day or two over some aerodynamic dainty piece of fluff I use my phone as a tool and not a fashion accessory so the more features it has and how long the battery lasts our big selling points for me Apple did do a good job with this phone though - the plastic camera lens this phone definitely passes my durability tests I'm excited to tear this thing down and see what it looks like on the inside now that the phone is so old I'm sure there are plenty of old broken phones or phones with dead batteries laying around just waiting to be brought back to life what other old phones would you like to see tested or torn down on my channel I think these throwbacks are kind of fun thanks a ton for watching I'll see you around