Reviewing EVERY iPhone Ever!

oh oh yeah, it turns out that there are many, there are many iPhones and no matter what you think about the iPhone, the first iPhone, this guy here, the original, it's pretty legendary, it was introduced at Mac World 2007 and it was displayed in a showcase had that memorable steve jobs moment on stage an ipod a phone an innovative internet communicator these are not the three separate devices this is one device it was pretty clear that apple had something very special on its hands at that time and you can check that one off day on the calendar as a pretty obvious turning point to get to where smartphones are today, today we're up to the iPhone 13, Lucky 13 and actually the 13 is a line of phones, it's a bunch of phones and all I have world-class cameras, a lot of proprietary silicon, a lot more software features and it's a very compact collection of parts that would have been basically impossible in 2007, so clearly a lot has happened since then, so today I have

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y iPhone in existence .

They have been released from 1 to 13 and now I am a review mall, some of them I have seen before, some of them I have not even touched or held, it is the first time I have had them in the studio and now they are working, so I just wanted to look back and see how far these phones have come and it's really amazing when you put them all next to each other so join me and stay tuned for the charts at the end we have some nice charts coming in January . 9, 2007, the first iPhone, so here's a fun fact: there's an article from The Guardian that shows that apparently six in ten Americans knew an iPhone was coming before it was officially introduced, so it was incredibly advertised, but it came out and when I finally did it, it was pretty immediately recognizable: you have this two-tone design, metal on top, plastic on the bottom so that the entire antenna goes through a very recessed headphone jack that it actually prevented many non-Apple headphones from working with it and this thing. here it really set the tone for the rounded corners, the flat front and the overall user interface that relies entirely on a multi-touch screen for

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ything, including a virtual keyboard which is quite bold at the time, now it was missing a lot of things, for which didn't have an app store when it was released, so basically you could use the included apps and that's it, and there were some good ones, you know, safari is here, there's a YouTube app, Google Maps was included, there's a stocks and weather, but you couldn't get anything.

Otherwise you couldn't even set a wallpaper. All original iPhones without jailbreak sported the same wallpaper. Nothing completely black. All of these numbers are pretty funny too, but let's leave them there for context. Three and a half inch, two megapixel screen. camera on the back it was launched with a four or eight gigabyte storage version and the starting price was 4.99 which was quite expensive for a phone it is one of the most recognizable phones of all time it is the only one that had a SIM card tray on top is the only two-tone iPhone they ever made and fun fact, it launched well, it was announced in January, but it didn't actually launch until five months later in June, basically , and not until another eight months later did they release a 16 gigabyte version. but, if you look back, although it obviously had a lot of things objectively wrong and a lot of things were missing, there were clearly a lot of outstanding things about the original iPhone that were better than what was on the market and that's why it had such an impact, but there was a sequel and that sequel was the iPhone 3G, so it was called 3G, not iPhone 2 because it was the first to use a 3G network instead of Edge and there were some major changes in the first place.

It looks much more like a refined version of the original iPhone, it's actually all black plastic, it's now pebble-smooth, mainly because it's much more tapered, so it actually feels and looks thinner, but that's actually it makes you lose some space inside, so the battery fits in. This phone is actually smaller than the original iPhone, the volume control and iconic mute switch that are already here blend into the side now, but software-wise this was another big step. Originally there were no plans for an app store as I first said. one didn't have it, Steve Jobs said everyone should build web apps for Safari, but they changed course and reconsidered, so this phone launched with the app store that started with 500 apps and we all know how it skyrocketed from there, so this is the iPhone. os 2 on the

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3gs, the first update here, we can safely assume it's for speed, but you could also say it means silver because really the only difference on the outside is the text on the back. back of the phone goes from gray to reflective silver, other than that this one has the exact same design and dimensions, you can fit the same cases as a 3g, but all the internal components have been upgraded, making it a faster chip made by Samsung that is literally twice as fast. 256 megabytes of RAM and a 3 megapixel camera and a slightly larger battery, you got an upgrade from the s, but looking at it today you could also argue that the s was the first software because it got some pretty big features again. iPhone OS 3 finally added a cut copy. and paste finally and believe it or not, this was the first year that the iPhone was able to record videos in the camera app along with autofocus and auto white balance.

I also noticed that the vibration motor was much improved on the 3gs, it's a little smoother and less louder than the first two, now this is also the first iPhone that had a major door attached, which is why there was a white version of the 3gs and started having weird discoloration issues which turned out to be due to heat, so Apple ended up recommending that. people don't leave their phone in a car for a long time in the sun or don't use their phone for a long period of time on a hot day, it's not the ideal classic Apple response, but it turned out to be fine, so I think the iPhone 4 I can safely say that it was their best new design and perhaps the best design of all time.

It was hyped into oblivion due to that famous Gizmodo leak before launch, but it was eventually revealed and we still see shadows of this iPhone on iPhones today, so first of all, it was just released. in a black color, they had to make a special version in white later, but it has the new square design which at that time on the stage was called the thinnest smartphone on the planet with 9.4 millimeters and you know, there were a couple more that they were a little thinner. but the most important thing is that it now has flat sides on all sides, it's easier to grip, it's more iconic, it has individual circular volume buttons, it's all glass and stainless steel, it's pretty cool, but the feature list that Also what this phone has is crazy, so okay, this is the first iPhone with a higher resolution screen.

This is the Retina display that doubled the pixel density and looked much better than any previous iPhone. It was also the first iPhone to use an Apple-branded chip, so it was still made by Samsung, but it now had a gigahertz Apple A4 chip inside with half a gigabyte of RAM, so it now supports multitasking for the first time. and apps don't close when you jump between them and this is the first iPhone with a selfie camera, so you can check out this sweet new video. calling service called facetime and they also increased the rear camera up to 5 megapixels, which allowed them to record 720p videos and had enough fidelity for a 5x digital zoom and I also remember that this phone was really attractive, there was a lot of talk about it despite that it's not even close to the most popular iphone by total sales it broke all the records of all the previous iphones and had people waiting for it outside the stores and it sold 1.7 million in the first weekend just because it looked so different it was much better than the previous phones they had made, but also this new design was the source of Apple's biggest door yet, of course, having all these new antennas on the outside in the stainless steel band, which is an idea really smart.

Shout out to Johnny Ive, but that also meant that when you grip the phone this way, which I assume you could do when phones used to be so small, it caused a noticeable drop in signal strength to the point where you would actually cut out a phone call if you were on the phone and held it covering the antenna bands, this problem eventually grew so much that Apple issued a statement saying that it is not that bad and that the formula that calculates the number of signal bars is not entirely correct and we will fix it with a software update. but don't hold your phone like that either, but in the end they gave in and did this.

You may remember the legendary free protective case that every iPhone 4 buyer could apply in an app to get a free protective case. How classic. This is also the last iPhone introduced by Steve Jobs, so iPhone 4s, this was again a small update and again mainly a speed spec update. They clearly had something good with the iPhone 4, so they didn't change too much on the outside, other than having a white version again and the antenna design has improved, of course, but this is definitely a refinement. There is a new 8 megapixel camera that records 1080p video and at this point we are now on iOS 7.

Tim Cook said in an interview, although when this phone came out, the s in iphone 4s meant siri, which came out with the phone and was almost at the same time that Google launched its voice assistant. The early versions of Siri were pretty crude, but of course it would start to improve over time. Released now, the iPhone 5 literally brought the biggest feature that people expected and that the 4s didn't, that is, a bigger screen, so this is the beginning of iPhone inflation, believe it or not, everyone The iPhones up to this point have had a three and a half inch screen, this is a four inch screen, but it is still a retina screen, with the same pixel density and a fairly square design, but this time much more metallic and also It's much more durable because of that and feels more industrial especially.

It's a little heavier in the hand, but this is also the first iPhone with LTE and the first with a gigabyte of RAM for even more multitasking on this massive new screen, but probably the biggest change here is the removal of the 30 pins. connector and the introduction of this new much smaller port, the Lightning port, perhaps the only bad thing that came out of this phone was when they replaced the preloaded Google Maps app with a new Apple Maps app that was absolutely terrible on the launch, but the biggest one. The screen and the beloved design combined and this phone really took off in sales, it sold out 20 times faster than the 4 and 4 and during the first 16 days of sales it accounted for more than 20 of all phones sold, now Android is definitely I was warming up.

Maybe leave a thumbs up on this video if you want to see an Android version of this look through history and be sure to subscribe to see that if we get there, but you could say that with the iPhone 5 Apple caught lightning in a bottle . Here I get it because because of lightning anyway, the following year we got the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c, two very different iPhones, so the 5s continued on the path of the flagship iPhone, whose price had been steadily increasing. This one now starting at $49 at launch was definitely expensive at the time, but it's still a flagship and this is actually the first iPhone I've owned and reviewed.

This is actually the one I have now. It still has the square design but with small refinements such as the chamfers and the. They included a new gold color, but the biggest new feature here, besides even faster speed, is the Touch ID fingerprint reader on the home button. Now the iPhone 5c on the other hand is a lot cheaper and a much more colorful option to live with, in fact that's probably what the c stood for cheap colorful, but it's funny when you look back at the prices, This was still back in the days when most iPhones were tied to a two-year contract, so the iPhone 5c was $99 with a contract while the 5s was $199.

But the idea is basically that it's an iPhone. 5 repackaged but now with a plastic body so some people love this design for me it's a breath of fresh air it's like an iPod but it definitely wasn't my favorite although I want to say that. I think both phones really showed the pressure Apple was feeling fromtriple cameras on the back as they added their first ultrawide shout out to LG for pioneering this, so now we're starting to get to what we recognize as the modern iPhone. I'm also curious, if you leave a comment, do you think they'll move from the word pro to a different word? again plus max pro, is there another word that could keep selling better screens, better cameras, better features, better batteries maybe, but now we can't forget the crowd favorite, another mid-year update for the iPhone se from second generation again, the se is a special edition, but also This is the smallest edition, as it is now by far the smallest iPhone that Apple makes with a 4.7-inch screen.

It feels small compared to the rest of the line and, really, the rest of the smartphone world, but that's the world we live in now. Pretty much an iPhone 8 with a few tweaks and the new internal chip and that alone is good enough to make it one of the best options out there, especially in the camera and performance department, and I will also say that this one is the best red. have ever taken, yes it is the best trip they have ever taken, also the starting price of 399 really puts things into perspective, the fact that this is the cheap phone now, how inflated the prices have become, this one had to be their offering to compete in the budget area where so many others are kicking ass this deserves a chart it will be a good chart but last year we got four new iPhones all of them slightly different but now it's a complete iphone 12 mini line iphone 12 iphone 12 pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max and the square sides are back, baby, this design now feels like the iPhone 10 and iPhone 4 got together and had a baby.

A couple of things here, we're finally getting to 5G with this one, if you saw the full review. You know what I mean, but this time the Pro Max actually has a slightly different and impressively better set of cameras from even the Pro and the rest of the line, including a larger primary sensor with new sensor-shift stabilization and this is also the first. every year of a mini iPhone that interestingly has about the same screen size as the full-size iPhone from just three years ago since the iPhone 8 plus, but this also continues the strange tradition that Apple seems to continue now of announcing a new camera. on stage, but then I didn't deliver it on the phone the first day and resolved it with a software update later, so a new camera codec for iPhone raw photos was announced on stage that didn't come out until two months later, but with the iPhone 12 line that we'll probably be most famous for shipping in those new smaller boxes that don't have charging blocks inside.

It's yet another move from Apple that was made fun of a lot and then literally a year later you start to see. Other manufacturers, Samsung and Xiaomi, are already doing it and I wouldn't be surprised if this became normal in the smartphone world, but that's what we'll probably remember most about the iPhone 12 year, but last but not least Importantly, the iPhone 13. And it's the same lineup as last year, from the smaller, cheaper 13 mini to the more premium 13 pro max, another minor update on paper, but as you know, in the three most important areas of the phone, the cameras improved across the board and I say these pros have the best camera system on any smartphone on the market right now, so that's not bad, then the battery life also improved on across the board, as phones are now a little thicker and heavier than last year due to larger batteries and improved screens, especially for professionals, who now finally have a promotional screen of high refresh rate reaching 120 hertz and just to maintain this new tradition, a prores video was announced for the pro iPhones that are not yet on the phones.

It now comes with a software update, so overall, counting all the minis, maxes, pros, pluses and ses, 33 iPhone models have been made. I hope I'm counting right, but it's over 14 years of the iPhone's existence, so there have been a lot of these things and the funny thing now is that there are over a billion active iPhones in use right now, but speaking of numbers, big charts guy, I really like to see these numbers displayed in a kind of beautiful graphical way, so that's what I'm going to do here, I think this is the best way to understand how far these phones have come or even just seeing some interesting patterns, so the first one, which is kind of fun, the total storage that's been on the iPhone, this is a graph of the total storage size available on each iPhone from each year, so we all saw the launch of the first iPhone with four or eight gigabytes of storage, which was a pretty good number at the time, but then year after year it increased pretty steadily up to this point. year, the maximum storage size you can get on an iPhone is over a thousand gigabytes, that's pretty sick and makes me wonder where we're all going to be.

You know, shooting prores videos, maybe on petabyte iPhones in a couple of years, maybe we'll see performance. There's also been a pretty steady upward curve, thanks to Moore's Law, and while I wish I could do a geekbench score for each year or something, there's no geekbench score for some of the early iPhones, but it's interesting to see how increase the amount of RAM on these phones were stable for a while at a gig and then have been increasing pretty steadily as they are not as crazy as other phones of course but it's cool to see but speaking of stability , here's a fun one-megapixel count on the cameras we started with. a 2 megapixel camera on the original iPhone, then they went up to 8 which is kind of the sweet spot, they stopped for a while and then they went up to 12 megapixels with the iPhone 6s and that's where every iPhone camera has been since I started.

If you want to predict what the next number will be so you can make 8k videos, you have to jump to 30 or 33, but we'll see where they go. There are many companies whose megapixel graphics look absolutely crazy next to this screen. Size is another fun topic, although we talk about the pressures of the rest of the smartphone world making phones bigger and bigger. The iPhone had a three and a half inch screen for a while, but then the dam broke and we got bigger and bigger sizes, but they've also done their best to keep a somewhat small iPhone in the mix, you have to respect them for that, but this may also be the last year we see a really good mini iPhone, so if you're still in the market for a small iPhone. one get one while you can okay here's a fun one starting prices so here are the starting prices for iPhones released every year from 2007 to 2021 without a contract so of course it's more common than the people buy phones without a contract now than they did a decade ago, but you can see pretty clearly that the iPhone 999 ramp wasn't actually that monumental a leap from previous phones, it was just a mental hurdle for a number when you add one digit, so it's also a fun fact that The most expensive iPhone you can get right now costs 15.99, which is a lot more than the most expensive iPhone you could get in the beginning, which was 5.99.

Okay, last but not least, just for fun we can visualize sales. The iPhone clearly had a really big increase. From 2011 to 2015 and the iPhone 6 and 6 plus were a big part of that, they were the best-selling iPhones of all time and I think it's safe to say it's the best-selling smartphone of all time, but now the cells of iPhones, of course, are stagnating. they are closer to saturated and that is why Apple is working on growing other categories like services and accessories for the iPhone, that is how we get from here to here from 1 to 13, what does the iPhone 14 bring?

I don't know just the people who work. Not on that, but I hope it gets a port, that's all I'll say about that anyway, that was it, thanks for watching, I'll catch you next year, Apple Peace.