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> Those who are unaware there just was no video app when the phone first came out as crazy as that sounds. Considering it was a poor quality 2 megapixel sensor

> Those who are unaware there just was no video app when the phone first came out as crazy as that sounds. Considering it was a poor quality 2 megapixel sensor with fixed focus up until the iPhone 3GS, you weren’t missing much by not having video. Like to put it in perspective, even the photos it took were utterly horrid in comparison to today. But we also need to keep perspective, in 2007-2009 no phone I can think of had a better camera, let alone a mainstream one.

rangibaby 6y ago
> you weren’t missing much by not having video The point is that even though it was not great quality you could do it by using a jailbreak. The other advanced feature I used a jb to do was... add wallpaper to my homescreen
- jsjohnst 6y ago
  > The point is that even though it was not great quality you could do it by using a jailbreak. A point I did not dispute. Hence why I quoted the part I was referencing, rather than his entire post.
WanderPanda 6y ago
Sony Ericsson Cybershot phones had decent cameras back then, at least compared to the initial iPhones
yardie 6y ago
I found an old backup of videos shot on my jailbroken 3G iPhone. She passed away a fews year after I recorded a day in the park showing here what my phone could do. And I'll watch the shit out of those slightly grainy 30 second clips until the day I die. That camera wasn't great and would be considered barely passable but it was in hand and it could do the job, in 2007.
14 6y ago
Lol Apple still released a video app afterwards for it so not so useless that Apple didn’t utilize it and some of my greatest memories which I still watch were captured with said camera. It worked just fine I can assure you. I captured many of my kids first moments on it. For it’s time, I was very happy with the camera. Sure compared to today it is a joke but so are many computing devices from that era. Also the point for me was I was a little upset I was sold video messaging and my phone couldn’t even do that. Not Apples fault the guy sold me something the phone was not capable of but it was the catalyst that showed me breaking the walled garden does have its appeal and uses.

rangibaby 6y ago

> you weren’t missing much by not having video The point is that even though it was not great quality you could do it by using a jailbreak. The other advanced feature I used a jb to do was... add wallpaper to my homescreen

jsjohnst 6y ago
> The point is that even though it was not great quality you could do it by using a jailbreak. A point I did not dispute. Hence why I quoted the part I was referencing, rather than his entire post.

WanderPanda 6y ago

Sony Ericsson Cybershot phones had decent cameras back then, at least compared to the initial iPhones

yardie 6y ago

I found an old backup of videos shot on my jailbroken 3G iPhone. She passed away a fews year after I recorded a day in the park showing here what my phone could do. And I'll watch the shit out of those slightly grainy 30 second clips until the day I die. That camera wasn't great and would be considered barely passable but it was in hand and it could do the job, in 2007.

14 6y ago

Lol Apple still released a video app afterwards for it so not so useless that Apple didn’t utilize it and some of my greatest memories which I still watch were captured with said camera. It worked just fine I can assure you. I captured many of my kids first moments on it. For it’s time, I was very happy with the camera. Sure compared to today it is a joke but so are many computing devices from that era. Also the point for me was I was a little upset I was sold video messaging and my phone couldn’t even do that. Not Apples fault the guy sold me something the phone was not capable of but it was the catalyst that showed me breaking the walled garden does have its appeal and uses.