iPhone Classic. Would you buy it?

[0007776]

People love the idea in theory until they take the chubby, heavy little thing and put it in their pocket.

I'd pulled out one of my old iPhones (a 3G) a while back and it felt significantly better in the hand and pocket than my 6+ or any of the 6/6S that I have held. I'f probably prefer it to use a 4/4S form factor, but the original iPhone form factor is nice too.

 

[yegon]

I'm not personally interested, but the OG iPhone has a certain mysterious allure to me. I've never actually seen or held one in real life despite being a total nerd and gadget fiend (at that point I'd had various PDA's going back to the first Palms). In the UK the first iPhone was exorbitantly expensive - this wasn't the hurdle for me, it was the fact it was 2G and by the time it finally released here the second one was just around the corner.

I was rocking my HTC TyTn (complete with Start Menu, just what you want on a phone) on the T-Mobile web n walk tariff at the time and made this insightful comment on Eurogamer, 11th Jan 2007 lol;

"The iPhone's undeniably a sexy piece of kit, but my Vario II (aka HTC TyTn aka loads-of-other-names) does almost everything that does (minus the UI and larger screen) but with faster net access (HSDPA), a keyboard, replacable battery, and easily changeable microSD cards (4gb for £50). The battery life is excellent too.

The biggest disappointment with the iPhone for me is the capacity - 40gb+ and it'd be a viable replacement for my phone and 60gb iPod."

 

[tranceking26]

If I hadn't already spent £699 on a 6S, I'd seriously consider it

 

[Skika]

But because of the extra space, the battery would be double or even triple the capacity.

Original iPhone battery was 1400 mAh. Why do you believe they could magically put in there a 4200 mAh battery now?