“Ten years is a long time in the tech world. In 2007, Facebook was only worth $1 billion — it’s about 500 times that now — and the Motorola Razr was considered the ultimate luxury phone,” Lexy Savvides writes for CNET. “It was also the year the first iPhone was released.”
MacDailyNews Take: We traded our Motorla Razr’s for the original iPhone!
“While the design and feature set of the phone has evolved over the past 10 years, just how much has the camera improved?” Savvides writes. “We decided to take some photos on the X and the original iPhone, side-by-side, and compare them.”
“Pinch to zoom? Exposure compensation? Video? Flash?!” Savvides writes. “Nope. The camera app on the original iPhone is incredibly simple. There’s a shutter button and… that’s it. Compare it to the iPhone X, which has multiple still photo shooting modes, including panoramas, slow motion, time lapse and portrait mode.”
“Don’t get me wrong. I wouldn’t go back to using a 2-megapixel point-and-shoot in place of today’s sophisticated phone cameras,” ” Savvides writes. “But I was genuinely surprised at how much I enjoyed using a 10-year-old camera with such limited controls.”
Read more, and see the side-by-side samples between the two cameras, in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As our moms will tell you, “The difference is like our eyes today versus when we were 20.”
Steve Jobs certainly had a relentless quest for design perfection. Despite its age, the original iPhone is beautiful in its functionality and simplicity. He used every molecule of the available technology in 2007 to design a device magnitudes of ten more advanced than anything else around, as MDN often reminds us :-). Nowadays we normalize our expectations to evolution of devices, like cars, rather than revolutionary changes. Still, I love my X. But all thanks go to Jobs and his engineers and designers for the moonshot that the original iPhone represents.
” He used every molecule of the available technology in 2007 to design a device magnitudes of ten more advanced than anything else around, as MDN often reminds us”
Except Bluetooth keyboard profiles, LTE which even feature phones had, and cut/paste…
To name a few molecules. 😉
I’m ordering my iPhone X soon. The only thing I do not like is the Camera BUMP on the back. I just wish its flush, but I understand the technical challenges to make that happen. Perhaps in a few years they can figure this out.
Hint: If you buy the Apple silicon case (to protect your investment), the camera bump goes away. I was pleasantly surprised by this.
I like my iphone naked or just a bumper. I don’t use cases.
Hi Jubei,
An added incentive to put a case around your God-Phone: replacing the front glass of the iPhone X EVEN with AppleCare is like $300 because the sensor array at the top of the screen is tightly tied to the front glass. Still a super cool pocket computer.
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Personally, I’m not a fan of cases made of igneous rock. The silicone cases are more to my liking. 😉