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15 Features the Original iPhone Didn't Have When First Announced
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As I recall the original iPhone did not have a normal sized headphone jack — you needed an adapter to use a normal 3.5 mm pair of headphones. I think I had a BlackBerry at the time and I knew you (on an iPhone) couldn’t copy and paste and I knew that you couldn’t send photos via MMS and I remember getting in an elevator with somebody with an iPhone and they had headphones on and this ridiculous adapter that stuck out almost half the length of a pencil. And my BlackBerry could do copy and paste and my BlackBerry could send photos via MMS and my BlackBerry had a normal headphone jack. My things do change though don’t they? Yes my BlackBerry didn’t have a touchscreen and Apple was definitely onto something but boy they had to go through several revs to get things rolling right. They sure did though. Has anybody read that story about Steve Jobs and how he had two competing teams working on the iPhone operating system? He kind of knew which one was going to win out but he made the two compete separately so that they were striving for the best. Clever guy.
was a normal (3.5mm) sized jack. It was recessed a bit, so some headphones with short plugs needed an adapter. It worked fine with all the earphones and headphones i owned.
hard to believe my little guy is old enough to be thinking about the SATs. They grow up so quick, don’t they?
It was a good phone but the camera was abyssal. You couldn’t rely on it for an everyday camera even at a basic level. No video shooting, no flash, low resolution and fixed focus… no front camera either.
Just shocking.
Nokia was already doing iPhone 4s-spec camera phones by then.
You could sense something really good was brewing but if you wanted a decent camera phone you had to wait out for new iterations. That’s why I waited for 3GS which was the minimum passable camera on iPhone (adjustable focus, video, decent resolution) and still upgraded the next year right away to the iPhone 4 (flash, front camera).
After that, it was smooth sailing.
Just shocking.
Nokia was already doing iPhone 4s-spec camera phones by then.
You could sense something really good was brewing but if you wanted a decent camera phone you had to wait out for new iterations. That’s why I waited for 3GS which was the minimum passable camera on iPhone (adjustable focus, video, decent resolution) and still upgraded the next year right away to the iPhone 4 (flash, front camera).
After that, it was smooth sailing.
The original YouTube app didn't show everything on the site. Literally had to wait for YouTube to slowly make content available.
How did you have Notification Center when the first Android phone wasn't even released for another 15 months?Remember how iphones didn't even have notification center? Any notification will interrupt you and block the whole screen. That was hilarious, especially being on Android side where we had notification center already.
Really?? That's one of iOS's most frustrating features. Instead of just touching and dragging where you want the cursor, now you have to use the spacebar as a pointing device, which means you can have trouble reaching certain text without lifting and re-touching. Isn't touching the exact spot so much more intuitive?
There are definitely decent Bluetooth headphones available. The adapter is hardly thicker than a cable anyway.
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Unsubstantiated conspiracy theory.
Yeah, I guess that’s society :/
i never had the original iPhone. my first one was the 3G which i believe was running iPhone OS 2.1 at the time so iPhone OS 3 was the first big update for me. it's so strange thinking i used an iPhone with so many features we take for granted today. i kinda missing those early days it was exciting.
You can do it either way I think. I used to do that quite a bit until they removed the little magnifying glass, which made me switch to the spacebar.
People would argue “no no no the entire system is based on macOS, but it’s not just slamming macOS onto iPhone and called it a day. It’s foundation is macOS not something written from scratch so it’s more stable yada yada yada”.
I disagree. I was using HTC with Windows Mobile 6.x that time and for example GPS was there and I was using it quite often, especially while travelling on new locations. And of course planty of other features were there too.
I remember when my colleague bought the first iPhone and it couldn’t do anything.
I borrowed (probably) iPhone 3G from the company where I worked for private “testing” and I couldn’t understand why is anybody buying iPhones ? The system was sooo limited…
Now I’m also using iPhone, but it’s because HW and SW is much better and obviously I’m older and my requirements for phone has changed and I consinder iPhones as best phones nowadays.
One thing that I miss from the original OS is the intuitive button style. I still find the current style of text-based buttons unintuitive and frustrating. And the settings toggle for making “buttons” isn’t much better.
A4 was basically the iPhone 3GS CPU repackaged in a SoC with a stronger GPU to drive all the 4x pixels in the retina display.
As a result, iPhone 4 wasn’t really much better performing than the 3GS.
Original iPad also struggled a lot with the A4.
The A5 was the first really good performing Apple SoC, which powered a lot of devices, stayed zippy for a long time and even saw a die shrink revision that gave it godly power efficiency.