This iPhone is worth HALF A MILLION DOLLARS

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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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@Mooooooof 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Wokiis 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@kockgunner 2 жыл бұрын

Steve Jobs requested it a few months before production!

@zeddnl6514 2 жыл бұрын

i forgot phones used to have plastic screens wtf

@aninditabasak7694 2 жыл бұрын

@@zeddnl6514 Even iPods had plastic screens.

@jjb0894 2 жыл бұрын

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!”

@lukemiani 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Djfmdotcom 2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: Steve Wozniak created the original “Breakout” game for the Atari 2600…the game upon which “Brick” is based.

@gavinmckew5092 2 жыл бұрын

@@Djfmdotcom Woz did, Steve got the got the deal with atari.

@Djfmdotcom 2 жыл бұрын

@@gavinmckew5092 oh wow! Good to know. Thank you ✌️

@Mooooooof 2 жыл бұрын

The all black does look great, I guess at the time they went for the aluminium look to match pro macs

@mchief40 2 жыл бұрын

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

@DammitJeff 2 жыл бұрын

Man that original touch keyboard looked ROUGH LOL

@aventipls7931 2 жыл бұрын

It did lmao

@alittlebit64 3 ай бұрын

Ay didn't think I would see you here!

@ST34LTHx 2 жыл бұрын

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

@daspec 2 ай бұрын

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.

@ivan8590 2 жыл бұрын

From the swapping M2 to M1, to this one, you’re doing very interesting videos my friend! Keep them coming!! 🤗

@King_Cooler64 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Romif_SK 2 жыл бұрын

And his name was Steve Balmer ?

@Fetidaf Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@King_Cooler64 3 ай бұрын

@@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.

@daveedwards6727 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@ZhuJo99 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@eric_white 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@Noah-Lach 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.”

@gizzymoee 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@daspec 2 ай бұрын

@@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.

@msorn3 2 жыл бұрын

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 KZfaqrs. 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!

@kevinwu951 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@cursorguy 2 жыл бұрын

Don’t listen to the bot

@walkinmn 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@TaylorBrauer 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@mbee32k 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@SixSilverStones 2 жыл бұрын

I love looking at prototypes from Apple

@dougc84 2 жыл бұрын

My cat's breath smells like cat food - Battery level (0 ) Ah, it's the little things us devs do to keep ourselves entertained.

@abcxyz1234 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this!

@timweber4318 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@LSnium 2 жыл бұрын

I have a first gen iPhone 2G from 2007 when my dad first got his hands on it on release day. It still works.

@tubularap 2 жыл бұрын

6:07 - Luke: "This is worth more than me." Wow, that went deep fast ;-)

@mojave5661 2 жыл бұрын

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...

@AbdAbdAbdAbd 2 жыл бұрын

acorn os got dumped?

@mojave5661 2 жыл бұрын

@@AbdAbdAbdAbd not AcornOS, but the one he showed at 2:01

@FubarMike 2 жыл бұрын

You should see what happens when you try and sync them with iTunes.

@PhineasCPR 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@TheMhayden123 2 жыл бұрын

Me holding a $5 bill. “This is worth more than me”

@CF542 2 жыл бұрын

They're only worth a million if someone is willing to pay that much. Great video to see those early prototypes.

@erwinvb70 2 жыл бұрын

Let’s just say thay buying them for half a million dollar can be considered quite a risky investment.

@albertdiehl1298 2 жыл бұрын

7:33 Me back then wanting an all black iPhone 2G 😂

@itssukrut 2 жыл бұрын

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 🤐!

@SonnyHung 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@diegoalejandro8981 2 жыл бұрын

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 😅

@SonnyHung 2 жыл бұрын

@@diegoalejandro8981 Yes the MessagePad 2000 uses the StrongARM processor.

@tonyconpint1342 2 жыл бұрын

Dankpods did a video on prototype iPods, and they ran similar software.

@peter_filip 2 жыл бұрын

7:33 just pure gold reaction 😭

@danielyaseen 2 жыл бұрын

Happy birthday iPhone!

@Sergey-it4sr 2 жыл бұрын

This is why I LOVE your channel and videos! Fantastic work! 🤝

@Coffeeology 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@armand.sarkani 2 жыл бұрын

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...

@JasperJanssen 2 жыл бұрын

Calling KZfaqrs on their click baiting in their comment sections is totally a productive endeavor! Well done!

@TorutheRedFox 2 жыл бұрын

I love the little joke splash texts at the bottom lol

@Slurkz 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, thanks Luke! Also: amazing music… 💜

@trulyirrelevant17 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@glezpik 2 жыл бұрын

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).

@rebootretro 2 жыл бұрын

Nice to see at least a few of these evaded the shredder. Great video, as always. Thanks Luke!

@515ventures3 2 жыл бұрын

It took 6 minutes to finally get into this video. Heads up. 🙄

@oscarcharliezulu 2 жыл бұрын

Luke couldn’t stop smiling testing these iPhones and making this video and neither could I watching it.

@SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim 2 жыл бұрын

6:13 that rookie gesture you did just reduced the price to *$485,000* 👀

@pesounboxer1507 8 ай бұрын

Wow… just discovered your videos. Fun quasi-fact: the motherboard on these prototypes was red, you should open them up and confirm that 😂

@MrBaskins2010 2 жыл бұрын

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

@BilisNegra 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Cart1416 9 ай бұрын

9:31 it's the chromebook shutdown screen

@zanetaylor6970 2 жыл бұрын

This video is pretty dope. Thanks Luke for having something good to watch in the morning lol.

@alexis0a 2 жыл бұрын

I always love see and know more about Apple history and their products, awesome video!

@Lying29 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@aborigigaming4821 10 ай бұрын

07:30 THE BEST SCENE!!

@davidmikeystars 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@pspslimicesilver 2 жыл бұрын

Still Have my iPhone 2G 4GB in the Collection

@dzhiurgis 2 жыл бұрын

12:43 WTF wth this explains my typos in my language when I can swear I hit the right key

@JohnSmith-op7ls 2 ай бұрын

You saying there are people right now, willing to pay $500k for that phone? Who?

@UpNextWithNickLate 2 жыл бұрын

No one: Luke Miani: HALF A MILLION DOLLARS. $1.2 MILLION DOLLARS.

@yuriorlov7916 2 жыл бұрын

This is fantastic Luke. If you could do more prototype vids, that would be greatly appreciated. :)

@SunnyRayPL 2 жыл бұрын

"This is worth more than me" I died

@olinewman 2 жыл бұрын

The first couple years of my original O2 contract, i probably DID pay $500,000

@bobcake8904 2 жыл бұрын

You and I both know this video is gonna blow up his KZfaq channel

@Notmyjob1 8 ай бұрын

I’m so glad they didn’t stick with the iPod interface

@frostanimate 10 ай бұрын

The plastic screen either made it feel like a PDA or an LG touch screen phone from a couple years later.

@billyno-talent345 2 жыл бұрын

i always wondered why iphones were better for typing than any other device. thats wild

@hwg315 2 жыл бұрын

my favorite thing is all the little easter eggs in the test os: the cereal box, the AT-AT etc.

@tommyw.7850 2 жыл бұрын

I mean, they're historically significant, but where does that half-million valuation come from?

@megalodonpuppet1357 8 ай бұрын

Imagine how rich this guy will be if he sold he’s entire collection

@misterxmistery7424 2 жыл бұрын

Nice way to misdirect viewers claiming it is some early pre-alpha iOS. It is a custom simple UI for keynote/demo purposes, not to be shown to the public. Every manufacturer has a similar UI for testing purposes for prototypes.

@Louis-yg3xq 2 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this! Well done Luke... what a testimony to Mr Jobs.

@Jona 2 жыл бұрын

"This is worth more than me" 😂😂😂😂

@nikita2560 10 ай бұрын

So amazing that each phone has parts sourced from different companies!

@LoftechUK 2 жыл бұрын

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

@modalities 2 жыл бұрын

Nice walk down memory lane. Much of this I was not aware of. Excellent.

@Evan420 2 жыл бұрын

Probably one of the most interesting videos I’ve seen in a long time, but where did these $500k figures come from lol

@ToySeeker Ай бұрын

Luke just pulling out half a mill iPhones 📱 from… ❤😂😂

@ToySeeker Ай бұрын

You’re dirty….. from his pocket!😂❤

@PeterOoiAZ 2 жыл бұрын

Did they plan for Touch ID during their 2G prototype? Wow!!!

@alisonmcgregor2002 2 жыл бұрын

this is incredible to see!!! and it’s so interesting!!! i love this. these prototypes are awesome

@dimitrischristou 2 жыл бұрын

Happy 15 years of iPhone!

@slob5041 10 ай бұрын

The block based interface reminds me of windows phone… it makes me wonder if they had a similar prototype

@volebien 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Fuenzy 2 жыл бұрын

Probably would have already. Feel like he would go further. Who knows

@ShinyTechThings 2 жыл бұрын

Wow I didn't expect your response on that.

@andreistoica2994 2 жыл бұрын

I remember the days when the iPhone was rumoured on gsmarena. I had a Siemens phone back then and the iPhone was miles away

@NoName-mg2yj 2 жыл бұрын

The iPod UI was probably so the hardware team couldn’t see what the software team was working on. Therefore preventing leaks

@thewiirocks 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@the_mariocrafter 2 жыл бұрын

I followed dongle on Twitter and was a fan of you on KZfaq.

@alex.x8782 2 жыл бұрын

If apple could make iOS in 6 months, I can study my Calculus test in 1 day. Let's do it

@nbaprophet100 2 жыл бұрын

They misspelled Receiver -> had it written as Reciever on the sticker

@sparkequinox 2 жыл бұрын

Brick, ah my iPod nano friend. Clearly the just ported nano UI over.

@Ghostzy01 2 жыл бұрын

Love these kinds of videos, I always look at my current iPhone after and I'm like daaaym, you actually kinda nice 😂

@gavinmckew5092 2 жыл бұрын

one of the best videos you have ever done & i like alot of your videos

@nickbadham9662 2 жыл бұрын

I cant believe you put the plastic face down on the wooden table instead of a soft cloth 🤯

@Robt772000 2 жыл бұрын

I still have an original iPhone in its box. This makes me super happy I kept it.

@lauratiso 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks this video wasn't made by LTT, imagine our boy Linus trying to hold these phones...

@urbsimp5273 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video Luke. Would love to see more like this👍

@jonathangaul276 2 жыл бұрын

Man I never knew so many different types of Prototypes For me made for the first iPhone Good video

@sam_cs_49er 2 жыл бұрын

Petition Apple to bring back the black MacBook (not only midnight color) with modern specs, Luke Miani!

@andrupka8749 2 жыл бұрын

Damn, the iPhone X is 5 years old...

@InternetTrollAlias 2 жыл бұрын

"Say hello to the Newton MessagePad 3000!"

@somerandomnoone802 Жыл бұрын

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.

@KyleGuitarLife 2 жыл бұрын

So can someone please confirm this to me, so when Steve jobs first stood in stage and showed the iPhone for the very first time the iPhone he demonstrated had a plastic touch screen?

@DJMannyC 2 жыл бұрын

FYI: These days, one million dollars is not even that much money. One million dollars is equal to $50,000 a year for the next 20 years. Surely, you will make a lot more than that in your lifetime.