This iPhone is worth HALF A MILLION DOLLARS
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15 years ago today, Apple launched the original iPhone 2G. On the 15th anniversary of the iPhone, I thought it would be a good idea to take a look at some of the earliest, rarest, and most valuable iPhone prototypes known to exist. This video features over one million dollars worth of iPhones. Today I'll show you guys the history of the iPhone like you've never seen it before. Buckle up.
HUGE thanks to @DongleBook Pro for setting up this video with his crazy prototype collection!
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Time stamps
0:00 Intro
0:48 Early development was a mess
4:35 Sponsor segment
5:22 $500,000 Prototype iPhone
8:58 iPhone running iPod UI!!
10:00 World’s first iPhone mobile game
11:06 First Gorilla Glass iPhone
11:34 Early Switchboard version
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The switch from plastic to glass was the best decision. I remember other touchscreen devices with plastic screens back then and it made them feel cheap, iPhone felt way more premium with glass.
I think what also made them feel cheap was that their touch was resistive with a very soft plastic layer on top which was very noticeable as it changed form with your finger press. The iPhone’s plastic wouldn’t feel quite like that, but it would feel cheaper for sure.
Steve Jobs requested it a few months before production!
i forgot phones used to have plastic screens wtf
@@zeddnl6514 Even iPods had plastic screens.
I remember a story of the engineers saying it wasn’t possible and Steve Jobs said “I don’t f’ing care if it’s impossible, you’re going to do it!”
Man that original touch keyboard looked ROUGH LOL
It did lmao
Ay didn't think I would see you here!
The UI and hardware teams were working independently on building the first iPhone, in fact at least 2 teams were building an OS one experimenting the iPod OS and one from macOS (which became iOS). The teams had no idea what they were working on. Some of the versions we see here are merely test software used by the hardware teams to test out components, rather than anything the actual iOS software team produced
The iPhone UI was a direct copy (steal) from Konfabulator's desktop widgets, which was aquired by Yahoo and renamed Yahoo widgets. If you can find the software and install it on a PC or MAC around 2003-2005, you'd be amazed at how similar (almost exact) they look. This is where Apple got the "idea" for desktop widgets, that later used on MAC OSX and of course the iPhone. They didn't design ANYTHING! Do a Google image search or look at wikipedia for screenshots, and you will see for yourself. Straight out, blatant copy. I'm amazed by Yahoo's stupidity to not sue Apple to oblivion, unless they had a secret deal to license the UI to Apple and make a cut from every sale.
TBH I think the original iPhone would've looked better with an all black enclosure. Huge thanks to DongleBook Pro for setting up this video, check his channel out in the description! *IMPORTANT: I do not run giveaways over telegram, any comments about messaging for a prize are FAKE. my channel comments have a verified badge/grey highlight. I will never ever ask you to message a random telegram account
Fun fact: Steve Wozniak created the original “Breakout” game for the Atari 2600…the game upon which “Brick” is based.
@@Djfmdotcom Woz did, Steve got the got the deal with atari.
@@gavinmckew5092 oh wow! Good to know. Thank you ✌️
The all black does look great, I guess at the time they went for the aluminium look to match pro macs
I actually like the silver stainless steel with the black plastic bottom (where all the antennas were). It gave a nice contrast and made it more interesting looking then all the other smartphones with black plastic backs
Right before the original iPhone came out, a relative of mine worked for ATT and said he and his team would test these all day and had a bucket full of them. They weren't ironed out at the time so he and his team would make fun of the iPhone because of how buggy it was and how no one would buy one of these. How he was wrong.
And his name was Steve Balmer ?
@@Romif_SK while I definitely call BS on their story, the first iPhone was super buggy before launch.
Even during the keynote they were digging shut together to make it look like it worked. Each task required a separate device with some stuff just mocked up.
This was because before the keynote the teams were split between hardware and software with neither having any clue what the other was doing. People have said that the first time the hardware team saw the springboard was during the keynote with the rest of us.
And that fact, funnily enough, is why I don’t believe this persons story. No one outside of apple would test the phones… most people inside apple never got the chance to see them let alone touch them or use them, why would they let a random person at a carrier? They wouldn’t.
@@Fetidaf To give you some context, my uncle didn't work an ordinary job at ATT, he was a telecommunications engineer that worked directly with cell towers that ATT owned. He did a lot of field testing with wireless devices hence why he and his team got to use iPhones.
I think you’re overstating how far Apple went in the 6 month period between these devices and the final version. Remember Apple’s software and hardware division were working independently of one another on iPhone. That is what made its development fraught with bugs and glitches. Many on the iPhone team didn’t get to see the other team’s work until the public keynote. The springboard we have come to know today was being tested virtualized on Macs while the hardware team cobbled together a very basic testing interface just to make sure the hardware functioned. As far as the on-screen iPod controls, I’m unsure what they were thinking there. I believe it was an idea that had been floated, and they made a sorta gag out of it to boost team moral (which was extremely low at points, working 14-18 hour days) but they had no real intension to ship it. Also recall iPhone is a distillation of what would eventually become iPad. I’m not saying they had anything near what iPhone OS shipped as ready to go, however I don’t think they would have wanted to launch the first breakthrough, capacitive, all-screen touch based device with an interface that is a glorified iPod 3rd Gen.
Actually there were two teams working on iPhone interface - Tony Fadell one and Scott Forestal. Steve wasn’t happy with Tony Fadell work, heading iPhone to the iPod like GUI. Scott Forestal team was the first one prototype showed here - and it won. Tony Fadell has been “Steved” - that means, forced to leave. Steve’s removal of his contact from iPhone on the keynote wasn’t a joke, it was a cruel reality.
Agreed. The software team didn't see the hardware, and the hardware team didn't see the hardware! That was to keep everything as secret as possible. That's a very important part of the story and explains the odd software that only tests the hardware!
@@ZhuJo99 This is a common myth that has been rebuffed by many of the involved parties. Tony Fadell continued to lead the iPhone’s development up to and including the 3GS; he was clearly not fired by Steve before the launch of the first one.
The story goes that his team was tasked with exploring an iPod-based phone, which was quickly scrapped as everyone on board (including them) decided the OS X-based operating system with a touchscreen UI was the clear path forward. It was a competing set of ideas - not teams - and the click wheel prototype was actually insisted on by Jobs himself to ensure every idea was adequately explored. This story has been detailed quite well in Ken Kocienda’s book “Creative Selection” (he was responsible for the original iPhone keyboard/autocorrect), “After Steve” by Tripp Mickle and Fadell’s own book “Build.”
Exactly this, the first 2 devices likely were never seen by anyone on the software side as they're EVT devices (Engineering Validation Test samples). The software would have likely been in development but there is no point in committing it to hardware until the majority of component's are finalized, hence the basic UI on the first device, and hence porting existing working software to the 2nd device to ensure it ran as it should.
@@ZhuJo99 The iPhone UI was a direct copy (steal) from Konfabulator's desktop widgets, which was aquired by Yahoo and renamed Yahoo widgets. If you can find the software and install it on a PC or MAC around 2003-2005, you'd be amazed at how similar (almost exact) they look. This is where Apple got the "idea" for desktop widgets, that later used on MAC OSX and of course the iPhone. They didn't design ANYTHING! Do a Google image search or look at wikipedia for screenshots, and you will see for yourself. Straight out, blatant copy. I'm amazed by Yahoo's stupidity to not sue Apple to oblivion, unless they had a secret deal to license the UI to Apple and make a cut from every sale.
From the swapping M2 to M1, to this one, you’re doing very interesting videos my friend! Keep them coming!! 🤗
Hi Luke, I just want to say that I’ve been watching your videos for the past year now, and you have quickly become one of my favorite tech UA-camrs. Your video ideas are very interesting, informative, and entertaining. And your very calm demeanor makes your videos very easy to watch. Keep up the great work!
That makes me remember all the concepts and renders people were making when we were hoping for Apple to make and iPod with a phone and later when all the rumors were coming in, a very popular render was an actual screen with the iPod click wheel and then we heard Apple was working on an all-front screen iPod, and the renders were showing a digital click wheel with the content on top. Crazy fun times.
Amazing Easter… Acorn! Flashing an acorn on boot I guess as a homage to the ARM CPU which originally stood for the Acorn Risc Machine.
What an amazing opportunity to explore rare iPhone prototypes. Loved seeing the early software they used on these devices. It's so interesting how rudimentary the interfaces are and then what it ultimately developed into at launch.
This is just amazing seeing these prototypes in live action... I think they were only showed in photos before! Huge props to another amazing video!
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Nice to see at least a few of these evaded the shredder. Great video, as always. Thanks Luke!
I always love see and know more about Apple history and their products, awesome video!
This is why I LOVE your channel and videos! Fantastic work! 🤝
this is incredible to see!!! and it’s so interesting!!! i love this. these prototypes are awesome
Great video, thanks Luke!
Also: amazing music… 💜
This video is pretty dope. Thanks Luke for having something good to watch in the morning lol.
Awesome video Luke. Would love to see more like this👍
It's really amazing to see the work that goes in building tech! Thanks for covering this. It blows my mind that Apple cant port this T9 keyboard on a modern iPhone 🤐!
This is fantastic Luke. If you could do more prototype vids, that would be greatly appreciated. :)
I have a first gen iPhone 2G from 2007 when my dad first got his hands on it on release day. It still works.
Nice walk down memory lane. Much of this I was not aware of. Excellent.
Wow, that is awesome, that's great to see where all this started.
Thanks for this!
I love looking at prototypes from Apple
Very interesting. This is awesome to look at the early production concepts before the iPhone existed, and to know that's what they were working on. Pretty cool
Good for you!!! You deserved that, you show the most exuberance when it comes to apple products love your videos Luke
I really enjoyed this! Well done Luke... what a testimony to Mr Jobs.
Love these kinds of videos, I always look at my current iPhone after and I'm like daaaym, you actually kinda nice 😂
Awesome video keep up the good work!
the closest thing to a prototype iPhone 2G I had was a retail one flashed to a prototype fw from circa March 2007? looked similar to the first one you showed. I'd love to play with the iPod-like one tho...
acorn os got dumped?
@@AbdAbdAbdAbd not AcornOS, but the one he showed at 2:01
Very interesting Luke, nice work.
Excellent video Luke, really enjoyable 👍🏻
12:46 that's... Interesting
If Windows Phone and Android do (in WP.... Did) that too, it would explain why typing out stuff like links or codes, everything that's not a word, os so hard/why i often mistype and feel like i pressed right and the phone recognised the wrong button.
I am assuming every phone does this and it honestly explains a lot.
WOW this video is an absolute Home Run!! great job
6:07 - Luke: "This is worth more than me."
Wow, that went deep fast ;-)
one of the best videos you have ever done & i like alot of your videos
I didn't know that about the current keyboard, that's super cool!
Loved the Star Wars references in the testing interface apps, I couldn´t expect less from a bunch of nerds working on the most game changing device in history (the same way Star Wars was for the movies industry).
Wow this reminds me of when I was hired at Apple to do iphone support at the launch of the iphone. It was LONG LONG DAYS. We did activation support, and triaged iTunes VS iPhone issues. Memory lane that.
What an amazing look behind the work of what would be one the greatest innovation in handheld technology.
I’ve been watching your videos since you started don’t you ever say you are not worth more then 500K you are priceless ❤ and keep up the good work buddy !!
You should see what happens when you try and sync them with iTunes.
loved this video luke
7:33 just pure gold reaction 😭
bro nice vid luke keep it going'
Speaking of how much work they had done between two "prototypes", I guess they might had been working on multiple UI & OS logics simultaneously and kept the one with best user experience then dropped others.
They're only worth a million if someone is willing to pay that much. Great video to see those early prototypes.
Let’s just say thay buying them for half a million dollar can be considered quite a risky investment.
Great video!!!
So amazing that each phone has parts sourced from different companies!
Man I never knew so many different types of Prototypes For me made for the first iPhone Good video
Luke couldn’t stop smiling testing these iPhones and making this video and neither could I watching it.
You saying there are people right now, willing to pay $500k for that phone? Who?
7:33 Me back then wanting an all black iPhone 2G 😂
Dankpods did a video on prototype iPods, and they ran similar software.
my favorite thing is all the little easter eggs in the test os: the cereal box, the AT-AT etc.
I still have an original iPhone in its box. This makes me super happy I kept it.
Great video. I guess the hardware was more difficult for them to figure out that the software. Once they figured out the hardware they were going to use and assembled them and tested that everything worked. I bet Steve Job was sure that his team would figure something out with the software side of things. He set a date and put pressure on his team. With the hardware only, they were miles ahead from competition, so it didn't matter as long as the software could at least be stable and usable. However, they did get the software right and the rest is history. If Steve was alive, the only thing I would see different is there would be no notch, and he would have figured out the under display camera before the competition.
Probably would have already. Feel like he would go further. Who knows
I love the little joke splash texts at the bottom lol
Me holding a $5 bill.
“This is worth more than me”
Remember the iTunes ready Motorola feature phone? Now we are so used to (decent) touch interfaces I'm guessing it would be at least just as frustrating to try to use those as that classic iPod-like scrollwheel interface.
Happy birthday iPhone!
Interesting video and background information. I bought the original one when i came out (no, i was not stupid enough to stand in line for hours, ordered online and got it in 2 days!), used it for a few weeks and then got rid of it, went back to nokia, motorola and then samsung and never looked back. Nobody ever mentions that the original touch screen phone with these features and looks was not the iphone, it was in fact the LG KE850 - marketed as the LG Prada (better looking than the apple version but lacking the apple marketing apparatus).
Great findings. I recently saw the first ever Apple device which is the Apple I on ebay for 1 and half millin dollars. Hopefully, Luke aldı make a video on that computer.
I feel the Vibe back then in early 2022 I got to do some uwb Tests with a phone wich had very rare Software of with the Company only had 5. Note that they couldn't get more because the samsung store moved.
12:43 WTF wth this explains my typos in my language when I can swear I hit the right key
9:31 it's the chromebook shutdown screen
I followed dongle on Twitter and was a fan of you on UA-cam.
Still Have my iPhone 2G 4GB in the Collection
I saw a post on Reddit where a bunch of prototype iPhone 6 and 6S logic boards were found in a garbage bin with holes drilled into them.
The block based interface reminds me of windows phone… it makes me wonder if they had a similar prototype
The fact that you got sent a million dollars worth of prototype iPhones just goes to show the quality of your videos. Keep it up, Luke.
07:30 THE BEST SCENE!!
I think I remember reading about Apple issuing a patent for the „digital touch wheel“. 🤔
6:13 that rookie gesture you did just reduced the price to *$485,000* 👀
fascinating!
Great video, but I think you could've refrained from saying it is a "half a million dollar iPhone" so much. These are extremely rare prototypes that almost never go on the market, so I think it's hard to definitively say what they are worth. If these or similar prototypes solid history of selling for around $500,000, then maybe it would be worth mentioning, but I don't think there are enough data points yet. At this point it is worth what someone would pay. Maybe it is $500,000, maybe more, maybe less...
Calling UA-camrs on their click baiting in their comment sections is totally a productive endeavor! Well done!
Did they plan for Touch ID during their 2G prototype? Wow!!!
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Ah, it's the little things us devs do to keep ourselves entertained.
Luke Miani, did you notice the message at the bottom of the screen of the iPhone 2G Prototype when you first placed it on the table? Well it said, '[Say hello to the Newton MessagePad 3000][03.07.01_G]' So like many of us who are die hard Newton MessagePad fans this is the continuation of the Newton actually. It's nice to see that the developers pay homage to the Newton which was the progenitor of the iPhone. Also the Newton was the reason Apple started invested in ARM and it resides in every Newton.
Ohh, I didn’t know the Newton used ARM processors, I thought they used some kind of low end Motorola chips.
Wow so the newton really is a iPhone predecesor 😅
@@diegoalejandro8981 Yes the MessagePad 2000 uses the StrongARM processor.
I remember the days when the iPhone was rumoured on gsmarena. I had a Siemens phone back then and the iPhone was miles away
They went from too fragile to ship to possible the most durable iPhone. My original 2007 iPhone 2G made it until 2014 before the touch sensor on the screen stopped working. Longest I’ve ever had a phone last.
12:30 I hate this feature so bad, I wish it was a toggle lol
They misspelled Receiver -> had it written as Reciever on the sticker
how did you manage to get your hands on these phones?
You mentioned that the one phone was on version 84, but what were the two super old phones version numbers?
It took 6 minutes to finally get into this video. Heads up. 🙄
It was nice knowing you, Luke.
Can you flash the iPod looking IOS and put it on the internet archive?
The plastic screen either made it feel like a PDA or an LG touch screen phone from a couple years later.
8:11 why did they add that? I guess i agree
Luke stick a huge SSD inside and loads of Ram it’s still good for Linux and at least it can still be used and not put on a shelf
I’m so glad they didn’t stick with the iPod interface
The iPod UI was probably so the hardware team couldn’t see what the software team was working on. Therefore preventing leaks
Or at the very least, represented a simple port of iPod software for testing. Looks like the iPod software is running in a window while the scroll wheel is a separate application generating OS events. That was probably the most sophisticated software the hardware team would have had on-hand and would have been tremendously useful in testing a number of features.
Don’t even have to watch the video to know it’s gonna be a banger
This is not what one would expect a $1.2mil worth of iPhones to look like 😃 This video was badass!
That value is as much set in stone as that of NFTs. It's a bubble. As long as some crazy collector is willing to pay 30k$ for a literal line on a canvas, these can be worth $500k, $5M or just $100. I'd bet these are actually worth less than stated, because they probably aren't as rare as claimed.
Wow… just discovered your videos. Fun quasi-fact: the motherboard on these prototypes was red, you should open them up and confirm that 😂
Just wondering why did you tape over the unit I’ds
the prototype at 4:19 was initially leaked in i believe popular mechanics. i remember seeing it a barbershop and laughing for about five minutes. "apple making phones will never work" -my dumbass