The iPhone 3G: A Blast from the Past

As I sit here with my trusty old iPhone 3G, I am reminded of the nostalgia that comes with owning an original Apple device. The phone's glossy finish and text on the back are a testament to its sleek design, which was revolutionary at the time of its release. Even after nine years of being "dead" or rather, non-functional, I'm thrilled to see that it still looks brand new.

I must admit, I had no idea what to expect when I brought this phone back to life. The battery was dead, and I wondered if it would even boot up. But with a simple charge, the iPhone 3G sprang back to life, displaying its original iOS 5 operating system. It's amazing how well it still holds up, despite being an older model.

The iPhone 3G was one of the first devices to feature the now-iconic multi-touch screen, which allowed users to interact with the phone in a more intuitive way. The device also had a built-in compass, which was a clever innovation at the time. However, it's worth noting that this feature has since been replaced by GPS technology.

The iPhone 3G was also one of the first devices to popularize video recording and editing, thanks to its 3-megapixel camera and 360-degree video capabilities. The phone's performance may not be as smooth as modern devices, but it still holds up remarkably well. I'm struck by how the camera works, even after all these years – the autofocus feature is surprisingly effective.

As I explore the iPhone 3G's features, I'm reminded of how far technology has come since its release. The device's design may seem dated compared to modern iPhones, but it's clear that Apple was ahead of its time. The phone's durability and ability to withstand wear and tear are a testament to its quality and craftsmanship.

The iPhone 3G is also notable for being one of the first devices to introduce video streaming on a mobile device, which has since become an essential feature in modern smartphones. The phone's user interface may seem antiquated compared to today's iOS, but it's clear that Apple was pushing the boundaries of what was possible with mobile technology.

As I continue to play around with the iPhone 3G, I'm struck by how much nostalgia is tied to this device. It was a game-changer at the time of its release, and it paved the way for many modern smartphones. Despite being an older model, the iPhone 3G still holds up remarkably well, offering a unique glimpse into Apple's past.

In recent years, there have been rumors of Apple reviving classic designs with modern twists. I couldn't agree more – a modern iPhone with a similar design to the original would be a dream come true for many fans. The iPhone 3G may seem like an outdated device compared to today's standards, but it's clear that its impact on the world of smartphones has been lasting.

As I conclude my exploration of the iPhone 3G, I'm left with a deep appreciation for this device and the role it played in shaping the modern smartphone landscape. It's amazing how much technology has come along since then, yet the iPhone 3G still holds up remarkably well. Whether you're a fan of vintage Apple devices or just curious about how smartphones have evolved over time, the iPhone 3G is definitely worth checking out.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys today's a very special day it's been exactly nine years since Phil Schiller took the stage and announced the iPhone 3GS today it's really hard to believe that all that time flies by so fast and as a little tribute I wanted unbox that in this video today as I've never unboxed the iPhone 3GS ever in my life like a sealed version I've interacted with it there's been lots of history with it but I've never actually opened it not this not the 3G or the original iPhone so I wanted to go back in time and basically redo that part to unbox the 3GS unbox the 3G and eventually the original iPhone on the days they were announced their anniversaries tomorrow by the way is the 3G ten-year anniversary so today let's take a look at this guy this was a pretty special phone and signa came out came out with video recording what no other phone could do at the time um you could put wallpapers on the back with the new OS mean so do that on the 3G oh wait no you couldn't hmm it had a compass in it so that was pretty neat it was a lot faster the actual tag line was the smartest fastest phone yet so let's see just how fast it is and this is a 3GS eight gigabyte nothing too special but believe it or not these are starting to appreciate in value quite a bit so I'm gonna have to unbox this guy very carefully I got this thing for around I think it was three hundred dollars two hundred fifty to three hundred dollars a couple years back I've been holding off waiting for just the occasion and guess now it's time but I've seen them go up to around $8,000 on eBay who would ever pay that much but okay let's do this that part of my life that I never got to experience let's do it now I mean I don't know if there will be any magic with it I'm hoping okay and this phone basically loses all value that I paid for it after I unbox it oh whoops be careful here I'm so nervous so how do I know this is legit it's by the way Apple has a serial code check online where you can input it and it'll warn you if the phone was never activated and this one was not so I know I didn't get scammed again and I just team did these kind of videos so I personally wanted to do an experience the joy of opening a phone I never have so god be called peel off and as you can see this thing is really starting to show its age it's got like tears already holes but this is it who is slides out pretty nicely and just like that is off and I got scammed Wow so I come on I bought this so long ago I can't even do anything about it but this is a complete scam how did they do that I literally check the serial code I I don't even know what to do do we kill the video keep going I feel like I have to finish this video because what is the phone like what's it's it's obviously we've been replaced I mean out of a factory there's no way it's gonna look like this it's all off and everything look at the screen protectors it's coming off oh man why does this keep happening to me with like so many things what the flip obviously I mean look at this look at a real 3G and this one is like oh my goodness I know will I catch a break with this stuff anyways let's forget the obvious fact that I just got scammed again and I don't know how they did it so that's really making me question about these are those legitimate Wow okay anyways I still want to do this one day I will actually unbox a co 3G that has not been resealed let's take a look here yeah look there's obvious scuff marks on there that's been replaced I mean it looks really good stickers and everything now I'm so freaking pissed right now it's got the original power adapter I don't know if that's legit this looks like a knockoff actually this looks okay but definitely feels non original it does have the old style of Apple headphones yeah I'm honestly so buggered right now okay so let's unbox this never touch never open iPhone 3G and here we go that is so bad they could've at least tried a little bit better at least it's in like new condition you know this is a brand new 3GS I can tell that but it's definitely been open before okay no dust at all of the speaker ports it looks good I'll share this story anyways I I've lost my fire for this video on this half to realizing it's fake but first time I ever actually saw one of these people would come to my house and like bring me phones to unlock you know though good old days with rents no unlocking the bootloader flashing it's and the first time I ever saw one of these was then and it didn't really feel like anything special it's basically like an iPhone 3G but you know it had the glossy and text on the back had the compass and apparently I think the battery is dead so trying to turn it on you know after nine years supposedly it's not going to be alive anyways I'm gonna charge it up really want to see what it's like inside what it's running obviously if it's running anything I was six it's probably fake maybe even I was five all right so it's alive we just charged it up and I gotta say even though it's not originally sealed it's still brand new like I can tell it's never been used and just powered it on got the old iOS 5 screen definitely I was four but yeah it's so shiny I remember like when these came out how incredible was when they were this shiny they would get it really scratched up like right away so you had to treasure it in the moment and because the screen wasn't laminated you'd get a lot of dust underneath it and stuff and it'd be really annoying with time I'd have to take it off wipe it underneath and that was the biggest process that's crazy it's relieving so many memories right now I actually traded some guy for an Xbox way back in the day a a 360 for a brand new one of these and that was worth like 250 $300 back in the day and this was like 6 dream obviously used but okay I'm gonna go ahead and try setting this up and of I have an e TT SIM card here just activated had to dig one of these out from the old bin but what a process it's crazy it is a Wi-Fi activated unlike the older models you have to connect it to iTunes alright let's see what happens and I got a pop the soup garden which was top loaded over here so oh it already had one shoot that's convenient and this was 3G cool so I have to really redo that I'm guessing that this is gonna be on iOS 5.1 or something like that there is no way that this is going to be on anything older it's running iOS 4 on the box I remember that wallpaper I was four or five okay and we're gonna start using it so let's jump in and see what it is general about 5.0 oh wow so this is genuinely like an old iPhone you know unused they probably just took it and popped it into a box that was used still that sucks it really sucks to be bamboozled like that even though this was a new iPhone so iOS 5.0 iPhone 3GS man the days of multitasking the first iPhone that supported it see how this little tray on the bottom and over here you had quick play controls really needs the old music icon music app you saw it cover flow back in the day so what a trip trip down memory lane for sure it's actually not too bad speed wise - you have YouTube even built-in camera help with video recording so this is like the first first look at this phone for me out of the box and got to say that is awesome well I've never used this phone in real life right now you know it's still pretty capable for what it was back that day video and photo looks pretty dang good obviously it's much sharper nowadays but if I were to take a picture like it's not so bad oh yeah this is the first iPhone with auto focus you can tap and have it focus as well video of course you have that 360p video or was it 480 about you know the doctor he got the more study and laggy that is seriously awesome 5 megapixel camera so dang this was a legendary design honestly it was awesome with time like it would start separating at the seams and it scuffed up like crazy but it's for Apple to do a revamp of this and introduce like a modern iPhone with the very similar design that would be so cool because it was it was seriously comfortable I don't know how many of you guys have actually used one of these foots it was pretty great ok guys I just wanted to say thanks for watching this is a really special day in the history of Apple and I think I want to be unboxing this tomorrow let me know if you guys want to see that down below that one I can almost guarantee is a genuine copy I completely got bamboozled with this Wow seriously I paid for that so long ago so I can't even return it if I wanted to but yeah there it is that was seriously awesome so I have more of a connection with the 3G than the 3GS like seriously lots of history with this in my lifetime and the original life will not watch at all I mean I barely ever used it when it came out I had one that was like way later so anyways thanks for watching guys hope you enjoyed it peacewhat's up guys today's a very special day it's been exactly nine years since Phil Schiller took the stage and announced the iPhone 3GS today it's really hard to believe that all that time flies by so fast and as a little tribute I wanted unbox that in this video today as I've never unboxed the iPhone 3GS ever in my life like a sealed version I've interacted with it there's been lots of history with it but I've never actually opened it not this not the 3G or the original iPhone so I wanted to go back in time and basically redo that part to unbox the 3GS unbox the 3G and eventually the original iPhone on the days they were announced their anniversaries tomorrow by the way is the 3G ten-year anniversary so today let's take a look at this guy this was a pretty special phone and signa came out came out with video recording what no other phone could do at the time um you could put wallpapers on the back with the new OS mean so do that on the 3G oh wait no you couldn't hmm it had a compass in it so that was pretty neat it was a lot faster the actual tag line was the smartest fastest phone yet so let's see just how fast it is and this is a 3GS eight gigabyte nothing too special but believe it or not these are starting to appreciate in value quite a bit so I'm gonna have to unbox this guy very carefully I got this thing for around I think it was three hundred dollars two hundred fifty to three hundred dollars a couple years back I've been holding off waiting for just the occasion and guess now it's time but I've seen them go up to around $8,000 on eBay who would ever pay that much but okay let's do this that part of my life that I never got to experience let's do it now I mean I don't know if there will be any magic with it I'm hoping okay and this phone basically loses all value that I paid for it after I unbox it oh whoops be careful here I'm so nervous so how do I know this is legit it's by the way Apple has a serial code check online where you can input it and it'll warn you if the phone was never activated and this one was not so I know I didn't get scammed again and I just team did these kind of videos so I personally wanted to do an experience the joy of opening a phone I never have so god be called peel off and as you can see this thing is really starting to show its age it's got like tears already holes but this is it who is slides out pretty nicely and just like that is off and I got scammed Wow so I come on I bought this so long ago I can't even do anything about it but this is a complete scam how did they do that I literally check the serial code I I don't even know what to do do we kill the video keep going I feel like I have to finish this video because what is the phone like what's it's it's obviously we've been replaced I mean out of a factory there's no way it's gonna look like this it's all off and everything look at the screen protectors it's coming off oh man why does this keep happening to me with like so many things what the flip obviously I mean look at this look at a real 3G and this one is like oh my goodness I know will I catch a break with this stuff anyways let's forget the obvious fact that I just got scammed again and I don't know how they did it so that's really making me question about these are those legitimate Wow okay anyways I still want to do this one day I will actually unbox a co 3G that has not been resealed let's take a look here yeah look there's obvious scuff marks on there that's been replaced I mean it looks really good stickers and everything now I'm so freaking pissed right now it's got the original power adapter I don't know if that's legit this looks like a knockoff actually this looks okay but definitely feels non original it does have the old style of Apple headphones yeah I'm honestly so buggered right now okay so let's unbox this never touch never open iPhone 3G and here we go that is so bad they could've at least tried a little bit better at least it's in like new condition you know this is a brand new 3GS I can tell that but it's definitely been open before okay no dust at all of the speaker ports it looks good I'll share this story anyways I I've lost my fire for this video on this half to realizing it's fake but first time I ever actually saw one of these people would come to my house and like bring me phones to unlock you know though good old days with rents no unlocking the bootloader flashing it's and the first time I ever saw one of these was then and it didn't really feel like anything special it's basically like an iPhone 3G but you know it had the glossy and text on the back had the compass and apparently I think the battery is dead so trying to turn it on you know after nine years supposedly it's not going to be alive anyways I'm gonna charge it up really want to see what it's like inside what it's running obviously if it's running anything I was six it's probably fake maybe even I was five all right so it's alive we just charged it up and I gotta say even though it's not originally sealed it's still brand new like I can tell it's never been used and just powered it on got the old iOS 5 screen definitely I was four but yeah it's so shiny I remember like when these came out how incredible was when they were this shiny they would get it really scratched up like right away so you had to treasure it in the moment and because the screen wasn't laminated you'd get a lot of dust underneath it and stuff and it'd be really annoying with time I'd have to take it off wipe it underneath and that was the biggest process that's crazy it's relieving so many memories right now I actually traded some guy for an Xbox way back in the day a a 360 for a brand new one of these and that was worth like 250 $300 back in the day and this was like 6 dream obviously used but okay I'm gonna go ahead and try setting this up and of I have an e TT SIM card here just activated had to dig one of these out from the old bin but what a process it's crazy it is a Wi-Fi activated unlike the older models you have to connect it to iTunes alright let's see what happens and I got a pop the soup garden which was top loaded over here so oh it already had one shoot that's convenient and this was 3G cool so I have to really redo that I'm guessing that this is gonna be on iOS 5.1 or something like that there is no way that this is going to be on anything older it's running iOS 4 on the box I remember that wallpaper I was four or five okay and we're gonna start using it so let's jump in and see what it is general about 5.0 oh wow so this is genuinely like an old iPhone you know unused they probably just took it and popped it into a box that was used still that sucks it really sucks to be bamboozled like that even though this was a new iPhone so iOS 5.0 iPhone 3GS man the days of multitasking the first iPhone that supported it see how this little tray on the bottom and over here you had quick play controls really needs the old music icon music app you saw it cover flow back in the day so what a trip trip down memory lane for sure it's actually not too bad speed wise - you have YouTube even built-in camera help with video recording so this is like the first first look at this phone for me out of the box and got to say that is awesome well I've never used this phone in real life right now you know it's still pretty capable for what it was back that day video and photo looks pretty dang good obviously it's much sharper nowadays but if I were to take a picture like it's not so bad oh yeah this is the first iPhone with auto focus you can tap and have it focus as well video of course you have that 360p video or was it 480 about you know the doctor he got the more study and laggy that is seriously awesome 5 megapixel camera so dang this was a legendary design honestly it was awesome with time like it would start separating at the seams and it scuffed up like crazy but it's for Apple to do a revamp of this and introduce like a modern iPhone with the very similar design that would be so cool because it was it was seriously comfortable I don't know how many of you guys have actually used one of these foots it was pretty great ok guys I just wanted to say thanks for watching this is a really special day in the history of Apple and I think I want to be unboxing this tomorrow let me know if you guys want to see that down below that one I can almost guarantee is a genuine copy I completely got bamboozled with this Wow seriously I paid for that so long ago so I can't even return it if I wanted to but yeah there it is that was seriously awesome so I have more of a connection with the 3G than the 3GS like seriously lots of history with this in my lifetime and the original life will not watch at all I mean I barely ever used it when it came out I had one that was like way later so anyways thanks for watching guys hope you enjoyed it peace\n"