Apple iPhone 2G: ten years later – the Grandfather of the modern smartphone – Tweakers

Answer this without looking: what do you think the conclusion was of the Tweakers-review of the first iPhone, the iPhone 2G in 2007? It is, of course, so you can now conclude, one of the most important smartphones from the telecomgeschiedenis. It was the beginning of a new era, in which the smartphone for everyone. That all started ten years ago, when Steve Jobs at Macworld 2007 the first iPhone presented. That keynote on January 9, 2007 had equal influence on major players on the smartphone market, but funnily enough, it led not to worry much about competition.

this has a few important reasons. First, it was not Apple’s first attempt in the call market. A few years before that made Apple together with Motorola, the Rokr, the ‘iTunes phone’. That was a big flop. Also tried other computermakers, such as Acer and Dell, already a successful entry to the smartphone market, but even that was not particularly good.

The first iPhone was not initially the smartphone as we know it now. Apple was no third-party apps, and leaned entirely on web apps. The competition thought, moreover, that the lack of security, the iPhone would be breaking up. Each app is turned in iPhone OS 1 standard with roottoegang, so any malware could control the entire phone, including the microphone and the camera. This didn’t; the first iPhone was not a great phone to make calls. Support for 3g was missing, and because of the full web browser and unlimited databundels-date iPhones, the mobile networks are so heavy, that a lot of people with iPhones in the early years often were not able to make a call or browsing.

finally ran the iPhone not only in the field of networking behind the competition. He had no front camera, no gps and no camera with high resolution at the back, these are all things that competing devices such as the Nokia N95, for example, had. Afterwards it is, of course, easy to laugh at the wrong estimates of many people at that time – click especially on that link, it really is a hilarious story – but there were many compelling reasons to believe why it wouldn’t be with the iPhone. However, that was not what we wrote in our review of the first iPhone. We wrote nothing at all, because we have him in that time, never in place and there is never a review to come.

Fortunately, we have him now in our museum. For our eighteenth birthday, last year september we have him used to get hold of. It is perhaps too late for a full review of the benchmarks and tests we now use don’t work on such an old phone, but on the basis of that old beast we look at what the impact of the iPhone on the smartphone market.