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YouTuber Compares Original 2007 iPhone to New iPhone 11 Pro
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A YouTuber who compares two iPhones. No "news" today about another tv+ series?
I picked up an iPhone 11 Pro after years with an SE.
Gotta say, while it is an incredible phone, in regards to ‘reachability’ as mentioned in the video above, for me, the iPhone 11 Pro is a two handed phone. I can’t reach anything with one handed operation.
I wish that instead of the swipe from the middle down being Search, I could make this Control Centre.
I rekn i’d love my iPhone 11 way more if I could customise swipes. I use Control Centre every time I pick up my iPhone, Search basically never. Would love to be able to relegate search to the top right corner where I can barely reach it.
A double tap on the homebar would be preferable for reachability also, rather than the swipe off the bottom currently in place.
I’d love to see a lot more customisations like this in the next iOS 14. If Apple won’t give us a small iPhone at least give us customisation in how we use it - that’s accessibility after all.
Alternatively an SE sized notch phone would kill it.
Gotta say, while it is an incredible phone, in regards to ‘reachability’ as mentioned in the video above, for me, the iPhone 11 Pro is a two handed phone. I can’t reach anything with one handed operation.
I wish that instead of the swipe from the middle down being Search, I could make this Control Centre.
I rekn i’d love my iPhone 11 way more if I could customise swipes. I use Control Centre every time I pick up my iPhone, Search basically never. Would love to be able to relegate search to the top right corner where I can barely reach it.
A double tap on the homebar would be preferable for reachability also, rather than the swipe off the bottom currently in place.
I’d love to see a lot more customisations like this in the next iOS 14. If Apple won’t give us a small iPhone at least give us customisation in how we use it - that’s accessibility after all.
Alternatively an SE sized notch phone would kill it.
YouTube videos are always so long and tedious, I have no idea how people sit through them.
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YouTube videos are long as the content creators know it will bring more money. That’s an algorithm of YouTube to give more lonely for long videos, if people watch the entire video.
I bought the original phone on launch day. Still got it. I came from a Nokia N95 and also had a leather E65 😂
Sure there were phones with higher pixel counts, just like many of the cheap android phone have as well. However to me that doesn’t equal to a better camera. That is just a camera with more pixels. I recall very well how impressive the camera was in comparison. If I am not mistaken this was largely due to the larger pixel size. Which especially in those days and still today makes all the difference.
no need for the original sim. If it was sim locked to the original operator just get it unlocked from them. If you haven’t used it for a while you may have to get a sim from their network and use it.
I bought mine unlocked and it works still fine with any sim from any network.
Yeah I’ve always found that kind of odd. 3G wasn’t exactly new at the time and many models in the dumb phone competition had it basically just for video calls. The iPhone obviously could have made use of it more so than any other phone, but didn’t.
I’m sure there’s a story for this omission.
Yeah and now we have any app we might need and my battery lasts about 2 days.
I miss nothing.
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Yes it was. You are counting pixels and you show that even 12 years later you haven’t understood what a good camera is about.
Well the original iPhone was useless and not even 3G, so the battery life would be ok when you could do so little with it.
Whilst it was a bit odd, Apple took such a different approach to the incumbents that it kind of made sense. And they still do it today.
For example, the camera pixel count was less as well, so on paper for many a worse camera. Yet in practice it was better as the pixels weren't just larger, they were also better spaced. So from technical implementation, it was better, and from an end-user experience it was also better.
With regards to Edge. Yes, 3G was around in those days, and as you highlight mainly utilised in the domain of proprietary video calls. Which let us face it wasn't great and didn't become truly popular until facetime which then lifted that whole market up to mainstream and subsequently many other players entered it.
Even 3G data speeds weren't that great yet, and the networks patchy (in the UK where I lived just outside London). The big play there was html5 applications and edge was absolutely fine with those. The other big 'cry' was no flash support, anyone remembers that? That was truly awful.
Today the networks are mature, big data contracts are cheap and plentiful. That was just not the case in those days. And even today, there is patchy support for 5G, yet the implementation of 4G which allows me to bond automatically multiple streams is much faster as it is actually a network that is available and doesn't require additional implementations. The limitations are the sites themselves, not the network, nor the bandwidth using that method. That is not to say that I won't move to 5G when it is widely available.
The Apple way is to use those techniques and do them better, better for the consumer. Not better for those comparing dry specifications on a piece of paper. Better for those who are using it. Sure they get it wrong sometimes, but on the balance, they do it pretty well in my opinion.
For me the original was the best design, considering the times. I'm really sad I don't still have mine but it got bent in half when I slipped carrying my baby daughter down the stairs (she was fine). The 3g that replaced it never felt like as good an Apple industrial design with its soap bar plastic back. That original UI was pure magic, the number of people that picked up mine for the first time and just scrolled up and down looking at menus etc. Seeing their faces light up and how incredible it was in 2007, Amazing.
Personally I really miss a deeper UI, not the worst excesses of skeuomorphism, but a richer feel with more depth, to me is just how the human brain (at least mine) responds better to touching a 2 dimensional surface. Although I think Jony Ive is the greatest product designer of the late 20th, early 21st century I don't agree with his flat UI designs and thoughts
Personally I really miss a deeper UI, not the worst excesses of skeuomorphism, but a richer feel with more depth, to me is just how the human brain (at least mine) responds better to touching a 2 dimensional surface. Although I think Jony Ive is the greatest product designer of the late 20th, early 21st century I don't agree with his flat UI designs and thoughts
So useless that it changed the whole market and became the biggest earner for Apple. I love that kind of useless, I am to be useless like that with everything I do 😂
Can't stand that guy. Saw him on the Joe Rogan podcast and realised he's a complete moron.
lol. apple would prefer every iPhone user to upgrade every year. and we did, for a while, but, because there has been a slowdown in killer new features and the financial issues the world currently has, and the environmental impacts of new tech and disposing of old tech, all adds up to people not buying phones year in year out. so yes if you only upgrade every few years like me, then when that happens there are a few reasons to upgrade, but I can't ever see a time when I'll be back to upgrading every year.
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also the dude is a child, his first iPhone was a 5S? thats like yesterday to me. he wants to try a Motorola startac.
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also the dude is a child, his first iPhone was a 5S? thats like yesterday to me. he wants to try a Motorola startac.
You're wrong. Technically the original iPhone was way, way, way behind other devices at the time. 3G was widely adopted here in Europe and the iPhone was stuck with Edge.
The app store launched with the iPhone 3G and that's when things really got going and led to total domination.
Back to my point. The original iPhone & software it had wasn't very good. You couldn't even copy & paste.
For those who don’t follow techtubers, I think it helps to give some context. Otherwise they’d all be going, MBK-who???
PS I don’t watch techtubers, though I know in general who MBK is and that he has a lot of subscribers.
Is he one of those guys who always has the thumbnails where they have some kind of crazy look on their face, are always doing some weird pose with their hands?
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For a lot of people, the original iPhone was extremely restrictive. The biggest use case for phones as it was emerging back then was as a music player. And we had tons of pirated music back then, which we would keep exchanging in memory cards, via bluetooth, or through that IR transfer! Haha. Couldn't do any of that with iPhones. You still can't, really. But with the march of time, streaming services, and phone getting un-tethered from computers, it doesn't matter much.
Funny I’m wrong as I had the device here in Europe. How can I be wrong when I express my direct experience? Coming from the dominant players in the market at the time Nokia N95 and E65.
are you casually forgetting HTC and their smartphones like the TyTN2 etc? pre-iphone.
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I’m impressed that my original iPhone still holds a decent charge after 12 years.