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iPhone 10 years later....

quagmire

quagmire

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Got my Space Gray iPhone X about 2 hours ago and finally finished getting it all setup. Must say the screen is beautiful, Face ID works flawlessly, and I love having the all glass design back like from the iPhone 4 which I consider the peak of iPhone design. Charged and powered up my original iPhone and it's quite amazing to see the difference in 10 years time Apple has made to the iPhone.

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Nice... I wish I held on to my 2007 model... sold it right away when I bought the 3G.... it's definitely a piece of history now..... 'sealed' boxes are fetching big numbers on eBay
 
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I still have my iPhone 2g. Loved that phone. Still fire it up occasionally just for nostalgia sake.
 
I still miss the old anamorphic icons, they were so much nicer than these flat boring things that we are stuck with today.
 
MacDawg said:
If anybody truly felt that way they would still be using it
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Can't use it if most of the newer apps won't run on it. :)

But, it was much easier to use and less convoluted. It had a charm that the new iPhones just don't have anymore.

One could argue that the design of the phone, however, didn't change from 2007-2016. I mean the front of the phone was basically the same, the only change was in dimension.
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Reno Raines said:
I still have my iPhone 2g. Loved that phone. Still fire it up occasionally just for nostalgia sake.
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Me too. I actually still have every iPhone I've ever used.
 
It's true though that iOS was much simpler back then - because a lot of things just weren't possible.
These days, there are so many options, so many so many switches - it's exhausting just looking at them.

Though, if you don't use any 3rd-party apps that need to access anything from the iPhone (camera, microphone, contacts, location...) and switch off most notifications, that simplifies things a lot (and extends battery life).
That's pretty much the iOS 3 experience then ;-)
I never had the original iPhone, my first iPhone was the 3GS. I do have an iPhone 3G that was used for on-call here at work. So I sort-of know how iOS looked like back then. It's stuck on iOS6 IIRC.
 
10 years ago I purchased the iPhone and had to return it because it couldn't be used for a clear Phone Call...
 
I remember getting the original, and if you messed with it for a couple hours, it would have to be recharged! Now I have an XR and can go two days without a charge!

I didn’t keep the original because of that, but bought the 3G, and had every iPhone made (except 5C, which we got my mom) up until the X (got the 8+ instead), then this year I got the Max and swapped it for the XR because of issues with the OLED.
 
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