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Original iPhone Will Soon Be 'Obsolete' In Apple Retail Stores
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Remember the old days , never liked apple for anything
now .......... saving up for the iPhone5s and the next iPad
now .......... saving up for the iPhone5s and the next iPad
I've seen them anywhere from $70 (non working order) all the way up to $2,000 (with original box) from someone looking to get lucky of course.
Probably wouldn't part with it for less than $500, and don't have my box so... Yep, I'll keep it.
Load Pandora, Netflix's or like players, stream wi-fi to iPhone Classic and pump to your speakers.
Can it output movies?
Twitter station?
use it as remote for other Apple devices.
Or jailbreak and check out the "other apps".
if you're still on AT&T and haven't renewed or your contract or moved over to another carrier since 2007, then I don't know what else to say.
I love this phone so much and wish I still had mine. The original iPhone was amazing for nostalgia and because it was the most revolutionary product i've ever owned. Going from a flip phone to that was like night and day.
I still remember going on holiday from the UK to Las Vegas for a festival. We went shopping and my mate bought an iPhone, can't remember if is was the original or the 3G version, but I'm thinking it was the original. Anyway, I stupidly thought "can't see how this new iPhone is going to be any good/take off etc and I went and bought an iPod! How dumb was that! Later on I did get a 3g iPhone, but I could've been right on the cusp of that new wave tech! I remember us sitting having breakfast in a hotel and having a play with the iPhone, classic times.
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And my point is purely ecological. My extended family uses a number of "vintage" macs (2 PBG4's, an iBook G3 an earliest MBP etc) and although they are technologically obsolete, they meet their respective users' needs. Keeping them running is ecologically sound.
I surely hope apple does sell its spares to someone willing to help vintage users.
RGDS,
Because you have to have the latest stuff or what will other people think????
Either way, I'm still rocking the original one. Bought it off a colleague for $200 when the 3G came out (he had to upgrade) and have been using it on Tmobile prepaid. Still works fine, and for me way cheaper than traditional cell service where the price of the phone is built into the service cost. Plus, this old one uses a standard sized SIM card which is great when you're traveling internationally.
I've got video recording, MMS, and tons of other cool features Apple never enabled thanks to Whited00r. If I need a new battery I'll probably just send it to iResq in Kansas City.
I didn't want one... I made fun of it actually (I had a PDA with a bigger screen, removable storage, and I could install apps on it rather than be stuck with what came with it). Wasn't until they got real GPS and an app store did I want one. And it's the app store that really made me appreciate it once I got it (The ability to install apps to what I wanted to use my phone for). Especially for the fact the apps were a lot cheaper (ewallet for it was at least half as cheap as what it was for my windows PDA).
Steve Jobs and Apple better be thankful that some one got Steve Jobs to be ok with allowing third party apps. I'd be either using a Windows PHone or an Android if he hadn't (the iphone would not be all that useful without imho).
Why would you still be using such old technology anyway? Those are slower, have less storage and do not work on the new networks anyway? I am surprised the original iPhone and 3G have not been dropped, the 3GS will be soon enough.
I can see them keeping the 4, 4S, etc as they are still good phones, but the iPhone and 3G are old?
I am still pissed at Apple for dropping support for my original iPad, I could only get to iOS 5.x not 6, so I sold it and now I am waiting for the new Mini with Retina.
I can see them keeping the 4, 4S, etc as they are still good phones, but the iPhone and 3G are old?
I am still pissed at Apple for dropping support for my original iPad, I could only get to iOS 5.x not 6, so I sold it and now I am waiting for the new Mini with Retina.
SJ was fine with apps - the iPhone platform wasn't. Yet. It was, and I maintain this - a rushed job. iOS 1.x.x was rickety - it really wasn't built with any 3rd party app support built in mind. I even think it was originally intended as a demo, but then was polished and launched so they would hit in 2007.
iOS 2.x couldn't have been only ~7 months in the making (remember, it first showed up as iOS 1.2 beta) when they debuted it. No way.
i still have mine. of course it won't boot. now is the time to sell it, if i can get it to work
Mine still works, but it's very much the worse for wear - the rear shell is full of dents and the chrome is rather scratched... I picked it up the other day and held it next to my Nexus 4. Revolutionary, it may have been, but I'm surprised to hear people are still using them today. I always wondered why I 'downgraded' from an HTC 3G smartphone to the original iPhone when it came out - I guess I was so glad to be rid of Windows Mobile that being unable to browse the internet at any reasonable speed didn't bother me because the browser on WM was a joke anyway. I suppose it's a shame those of us who jumped ship after the first iPhone never got to own one on the 3G network it should've been on to start with!