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00:00Hey what is up guys, MKBHD here. This is the iPhone 11 Pro and this is the iPhone.
00:19Fun fact, I never actually owned a first generation iPhone or a second gen or a third gen. The
00:24first iPhone I ever owned and reviewed was the iPhone 5S. This video is mainly for fun
00:31but it's also for people who make a habit of complaining that this year's phones are
00:36just last year's phones plus a few small bumps. Because if you haven't noticed, that's kind
00:42of the whole point. The whole reason they're coming out with phones over and over again
00:46year after year besides trying to make as much money as possible is to offer a small
00:50bump and a small improvement year over year and then when you do feel like upgrading it
00:55adds up to a larger difference the three or four years after you've finally decided
00:59to upgrade. These smartphones, it's a mature market. It's very rare that we get a truly
01:05revolutionary new device, a revolutionary new smartphone. But back in 2007, this was
01:14that. So I wanted to take a quick look back at a retro phone that I never used, the original,
01:20the iPhone. So first thing I'm noticing holding it now in 2019 is it's a chunky one, you know,
01:26like this is a really thick phone but it's also really small. It honestly feels about
01:31half the size of its much, much, much younger brother. And you know, generally it's the
01:36right shape, the rectangle with rounded corners, with a flat display, these big chrome chamfers,
01:44big forehead, big chin, we know that, and the physical home button is there. And it's
01:49kind of rare these days but every corner of this device is actually legitimately reachable.
01:54That's no problem at all. And the iconic two-tone metal and plastic, it's super recognizable
01:59as this first iPhone. You could probably tell as soon as you saw the thumbnail. This is
02:02of course a used iPhone but it's held up pretty well for a decade plus in people's hands.
02:08Fun fact though, we all know most modern smartphones, or maybe we don't know, but they're hiding
02:12their antenna bands in the metal frame of the phone in various places. You can see it
02:17around the phone. This first iPhone didn't do that, it just put them all down in the
02:22bottom half of the phone and made the bottom plastic so that the radios and antennas could
02:27go through that. Passes through plastic better than metal, simple as that. And then there's
02:31the display. So while today we have all these huge high-resolution displays, six to six
02:38and a half inches for a display isn't even blinked at anymore, back here in 2007 we're
02:42looking at a 3.5 inch, 320 by 480 LCD display. Can you see individual pixels? Yes. Yes,
02:52you can see individual pixels. It measures in at officially 163 PPI, but it does get
02:58surprisingly bright so I'm not even mad at that. As soon as you look at it a little bit
03:03off axis though, or even turn it off, you can see the huge difference versus the laminated
03:09super high-tech, high refresh rate OLED panels we have today. And that's not even getting
03:14into the whole folding phone thing. But it's easy to forget the display when this phone
03:18first came out was, I think, the most revolutionary part of the hardware. The fact that it was
03:24a glass display and it had 10 finger multi-touch and that was a big leap for the mobile UI.
03:30And I remember when this phone came out, it was on AT&T or SingularOnly and I was a high
03:35school kid on Verizon so I couldn't just switch carriers to get it. So I had, my first
03:41smartphone was an iPhone competitor called the LG Voyager. And I don't know if you remember
03:48that, but it was also a touchscreen, but it was a resistive touchscreen and it wasn't
03:53multi-touch and it was just a very, very different experience. Not all touchscreens are created
03:59alike so this was a big deal. I did still enjoy the Voyager though. I did review it.
04:04Good times.
04:05And this is obviously a touchscreen phone on the front and a multimedia texting device
04:10on the inside.
04:11The bottom of the original iPhone is maybe where it shows it's aged the most. That is
04:15the OG 30-pin connector and the speaker and microphone down here in those grilles, which
04:21means up at the top is where you'll find the headphone jack. But not just any headphone
04:26jack. If you can see closely here, this is a recessed three and a half millimeter headphone
04:30jack. So if you had headphones with the right diameter, then you were fine. But if you had
04:35a thicker cable or if you had a certain right angle connector, they wouldn't work and you'd
04:40have to get an extender, basically a headphone jack to headphone jack dongle.
04:45Power button is up at the top, volume rocker on the left. It stayed this way for a while
04:50until they moved the power button to the right for the first time in the iPhone 6. And then
04:55that's next to low-key, one of the most significant Apple designs, I think, in their mobile history.
05:00Because it's something they've stuck with for every single iPhone to this day. And that's
05:05the dedicated mute switch.
05:07Let me read to you the spec sheet of the original iPhone from 2007. Now, keep in mind, when
05:13this came out, it was not about specs. That's not what people were impressed with about
05:18the iPhone. But it had specs. So this is just for reference for how far we've come. It had
05:23a Samsung-made CPU underclocked to 412 megahertz. And you can see on the back, it was an 8-gigabyte
05:29version, but you could get 4 or later 8 or 16 gigs of storage. And all versions had 128
05:36megabytes of RAM. And then you're looking at a hefty 1,400 milliamp-hour battery. Oh,
05:43and that's a 2-megapixel camera on the back. No multiple lenses, no flash, no microphones,
05:51just a simple camera. No bump.
05:53And opening up that camera app, you can see just how simple it all started. It's literally
05:59just a viewfinder and a shutter button. Like, that's all you needed. There's no tap to focus,
06:03no tap to expose, there's no portrait mode, no night mode, no video mode at all, and no
06:10selfie mode either. Oh yeah, that's right. The first iPhone didn't have a selfie camera.
06:15In fact, no iPhones had selfie cameras until the iPhone 4. So there's your trivia fun fact
06:23of the day.
06:24And here's some photos I've taken on the iPhone 1. And you know, on one hand, I'm actually
06:28pretty impressed that they still look decent at all. I mean, I wouldn't post these, but
06:33you know, at least the colors are decent. But on the other hand, you can tell it's
06:36basically a webcam. You know, there's noise in every photo, no matter how much light you
06:41give it. And it's like splotchy noise. Exposure is impossible to nail. Focus is impossible
06:46to nail. Yeah, it's bad. But that's what makes it so incredible, is that comparison with
06:51the iPhone we have today, and the fact that this is one of the major stepping stones to
06:55the mobile photography that we kind of take for granted in our pockets. This is the best
06:59Apple could make 12 years ago versus the best Apple could make today, which has me really
07:03pumped about the best we're going to have another decade from now.
07:07And then performance. Well, it would be almost unfair to review the performance now, but
07:11it's actually pretty impressive that it still turns on, boots up, and works. The battery
07:16life is about three hours, since it's a decade-old small battery. But for the most part, you
07:22can see the software like it existed back in the day. The last software update the
07:27original iPhone got from, you know, literally the first version of iOS, was iOS 3.1.3, that
07:35you can see here. And you can see how simple it is. There's just slide to unlock, no touch
07:39ID, no face ID. It's fairly responsive, but you know, no control center, no notification
07:44shade. All these things came later. In fact, believe it or not, the first version of iOS
07:50didn't even have wallpapers. That was eventually added as a feature. Plus some nifty default
07:54wallpapers were added that have slowly become iconic. Also look at this voice memo app.
07:59I can actually see how this is one of those things that really excited people in 2007.
08:04It's impressively smooth. Anyway, I don't know about you, but seeing the two of these
08:09phones side by side really sort of refreshes my appreciation for how good this mobile tech
08:15has gotten, especially lately. If you go back to the Internet Wayback Machine archive,
08:21you can see what Apple's website looked like on that fateful day in 2007 when this thing
08:26launched and they called it a breakthrough communications device and all that fun stuff.
08:31My favorite part is if you click through to the high tech section, they talk about the
08:35crazy new sensors that they put in this phone, including an accelerometer so you can tell
08:40when you're holding a portrait or a landscape and rotate automatically, and an ambient
08:45light sensor so it can raise or lower the brightness, thereby enhancing the user experience
08:50and saving power at the same time. And then of course this thing spawned the iPod Touch,
08:55first piece of tech I ever bought, and the iPad and all the iPhones that came after it,
08:59and the rest is history. This thing inarguably changed tech design forever. So anyway, I
09:04hope you enjoyed this fun little look back. I think this phone would be amazing to do
09:09a challenge. I don't know who else would do this, maybe another YouTuber, but trying
09:14to use just this phone for a week or something. I don't know who would do that. Maybe tag
09:19someone if you have some ideas. But yeah, it was just fun to actually turn it on, use
09:24it and get some experience with iOS 3.1.3. Also, this is a perfect opportunity to give
09:29a little shout out or a shameless plug to Retro Tech, which is coming back. So a lot
09:35of you may remember earlier this year, we did a pilot episode diving deep into the
09:40original Game Boy. I'll leave a link below. So now since then, and I've tweeted this,
09:43we finished shooting and editing six incredible episodes, all of different iconic pieces of
09:51Retro Tech. And so they're coming right at the beginning of December. And I am really
09:56excited for you guys to see them. I mean, we spent a lot of time on them, but there's
09:59also some amazing guests, great segments. They turned out great. So either way, thanks
10:03for watching this one and feel free to leave a comment. What was your first smartphone?
10:09If mine was the LG Voyager, was yours the iPhone or was yours something else? Feel free
10:12to let me know. I'll hang out in the comments and I'll catch you guys in the next one. Peace.