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iPhone 3G frame by Grid review

Saint_Genet 4y ago
Found my old 3G while cleaning out a junk drawer the other week and I totally forgot how heavy it was
- vizzah 4y ago
  Heavy? It weights the same as iPhone 12 mini.
  - Saint_Genet 4y ago
    I should probably have used the word compact instead. When I hold it I can feel the inertial weight when moving my hand in a way I don't do with my current iphone 13
    - macintux 4y ago
      “dense” perhaps.
- 2Gkashmiri 4y ago
  on a tangent, our family got the original 2G in 2008. then another 3GS on 2010 i think. later, i got a 3GS of my own in 2014~. i still cannot get over the fact that i "miss" the typing on that form factor. i simply cannot explain it. the keyboard on that thing right till 3GS was a beauty and i have written many thousands of words worth of tomes and blogs and reports over the years. since then i moved over to android because idevices got expensive and i still dont feel comfortable typing on a phone even today. my laptop has helped but i could type "with confidence" on that phone but now, my moto G30 current phone just doesn't cut it
- giuliomagnifico 4y ago
  It’s not heavy, the iPhone 13 pro is heavy!
- f_allwein 4y ago
  Also consider recycling your old electronics, apparently it has great benefits: https://www.treehugger.com/why-recycle-cell-phones-1204065 https://www.treehugger.com/why-recycle-cell-phones-1204065
samwillis 4y ago
I love the look of these. I have my old 3Gs and iPod 3rd gen [0] sitting on the shelf above my desk waiting for some time to do a DIY version of this, was going to use iFixit as a reference for technical details. Hmm, a DIY kit for this would be an awesome gift. I wander if anyone has put one together… [0] I had a second gen iPod but it had a sticky end due to a hockey stick :-(
- wil421 4y ago
  Still have my 3GS and iPad 2 sitting on my bookshelf. Both of them can’t handle the modern web. Too bad I lost or sold/traded my old iPods. My dad still has the first iPod that worked with windows.
m12k 4y ago
The iPhone 3G was introduced in July 2008 along with the App Store, and official support for 3rd party apps. I was lucky enough to get a job programming an app for it a couple months later. It was rough at first, with so much undocumented behavior, no playbook of best practices and very little help to find on the web. But it also taught me a lot of self-reliance. I didn't get to be part of the gold rushes in the 80's and 90's when personal computers and the web exploded onto the scene, so I feel grateful to have been part of another "new world" in tech, full of uncertainty, opportunity and excitement. It still blows my mind that it's already been 14 years - smartphones still feel like "the new thing" to me - maybe just because no huge new platforms have emerged since then to take the "new thing" crown?
- giuliomagnifico 4y ago
  The “boom/growth” of smartphones was very fast but in the last 2/3 years there aren’t big “new things” (features I mean), there isn’t a new App Store, or a Retina display, or a lightning connector, or 3G (5G is not as breakthrough as it was from 2 to 3G) and so on… the “next big thing” I think will be on the battery that’s still the same technology as it was in the beginning.
  - causi 4y ago
    Lots of phones have really cool features but they're not widely adopted. Solid-state accelerometers were invented and then instantly adopted universally. Same for compasses and GPS receivers. Many features I imagined would become universal simply haven't. Periscope zoom cameras, for example, or HDMI-out desktop modes. Other great features were created and then fell out of favor, like rear-mounted fingerprint readers and notification LEDs.
  - grishka 4y ago
    > the “next big thing” I think will be on the battery You'll get the same mediocre battery life but the phone would be so thin you could slice bread with it.
  - bombcar 4y ago
    For something to be a "big thing" it really has to enable new uses that actually matter - once we hit day+ battery life, longer no longer matters (especially with wireless charging); and 3G to 5G hasn't really been noticeable to anyone beyond 3G being slowed beyond belief. A new connector, a new display, these just are minor changes and though they may cause some howling, they don't really change the use of the device. What's the next big new thing? No idea, if I knew I'd make it. But I suspect that it's already been done somewhere, but it won't be big until Apple or someone picks it up.
azinman2 4y ago
> In the end I just think it’s a lovely piece of contemporary art, I like it and I love to give it a glance sometimes I think it’s cool and I’m glad he likes it, but contemporary art it is not.
- dublinben 4y ago
  You can tell that the author really knows art, because his apartment looks just like an art gallery.
Eric_WVGG 4y ago
I was gifted one of these, an iPhone 4 (the Porsche 911 of smartphones imho). It’s pretty nice! But the quality of the board leaves a little to be desired, they should have sprung for letterpress.
- JTon 4y ago
  Friend of mine stood in line and got the iPhone 4 on day 1 of release. I remember being in awe of it. Imo, took years for Samsung and other Android smartphones to catch up visually. > the Porsche 911 of smartphone Not a car buff. Would you mind unpacking this analogy?
  - bombcar 4y ago
    Older famous car often considered to the "best" even if it isn't the top performance, etc. Read as "pinnacle".
  - simonh 4y ago
    An iconic, distinctive and instantly recognisable design.
esotericsean 4y ago
Not sure if I'm allowed to post it here, but that company sent me a Game Boy Color version. It's a lovely piece of art, but with Game Boys back in high demand, a lot of people complained that I would support that company. Partly fueled by those people (and also my own curiosity), I took it apart and put it all back together and turned it into a functioning Game Boy again (and made a YouTube video). It was clear that the console had already had attempted fixes and repairs, but they couldn't get it to work. Kinda interesting, I thought.
ASalazarMX 4y ago
This reminded me I have an old Blackberry that was never used. It would have never occurred me to frame it. Should be easy since it has no glued parts.

Found my old 3G while cleaning out a junk drawer the other week and I totally forgot how heavy it was

vizzah 4y ago
Heavy? It weights the same as iPhone 12 mini.
- Saint_Genet 4y ago
  I should probably have used the word compact instead. When I hold it I can feel the inertial weight when moving my hand in a way I don't do with my current iphone 13
  - macintux 4y ago
    “dense” perhaps.
2Gkashmiri 4y ago
on a tangent, our family got the original 2G in 2008. then another 3GS on 2010 i think. later, i got a 3GS of my own in 2014~. i still cannot get over the fact that i "miss" the typing on that form factor. i simply cannot explain it. the keyboard on that thing right till 3GS was a beauty and i have written many thousands of words worth of tomes and blogs and reports over the years. since then i moved over to android because idevices got expensive and i still dont feel comfortable typing on a phone even today. my laptop has helped but i could type "with confidence" on that phone but now, my moto G30 current phone just doesn't cut it
giuliomagnifico 4y ago
It’s not heavy, the iPhone 13 pro is heavy!
f_allwein 4y ago
Also consider recycling your old electronics, apparently it has great benefits: https://www.treehugger.com/why-recycle-cell-phones-1204065 https://www.treehugger.com/why-recycle-cell-phones-1204065

I love the look of these. I have my old 3Gs and iPod 3rd gen [0] sitting on the shelf above my desk waiting for some time to do a DIY version of this, was going to use iFixit as a reference for technical details. Hmm, a DIY kit for this would be an awesome gift. I wander if anyone has put one together… [0] I had a second gen iPod but it had a sticky end due to a hockey stick :-(

wil421 4y ago
Still have my 3GS and iPad 2 sitting on my bookshelf. Both of them can’t handle the modern web. Too bad I lost or sold/traded my old iPods. My dad still has the first iPod that worked with windows.

m12k 4y ago

The iPhone 3G was introduced in July 2008 along with the App Store, and official support for 3rd party apps. I was lucky enough to get a job programming an app for it a couple months later. It was rough at first, with so much undocumented behavior, no playbook of best practices and very little help to find on the web. But it also taught me a lot of self-reliance. I didn't get to be part of the gold rushes in the 80's and 90's when personal computers and the web exploded onto the scene, so I feel grateful to have been part of another "new world" in tech, full of uncertainty, opportunity and excitement. It still blows my mind that it's already been 14 years - smartphones still feel like "the new thing" to me - maybe just because no huge new platforms have emerged since then to take the "new thing" crown?

giuliomagnifico 4y ago
The “boom/growth” of smartphones was very fast but in the last 2/3 years there aren’t big “new things” (features I mean), there isn’t a new App Store, or a Retina display, or a lightning connector, or 3G (5G is not as breakthrough as it was from 2 to 3G) and so on… the “next big thing” I think will be on the battery that’s still the same technology as it was in the beginning.
- causi 4y ago
  Lots of phones have really cool features but they're not widely adopted. Solid-state accelerometers were invented and then instantly adopted universally. Same for compasses and GPS receivers. Many features I imagined would become universal simply haven't. Periscope zoom cameras, for example, or HDMI-out desktop modes. Other great features were created and then fell out of favor, like rear-mounted fingerprint readers and notification LEDs.
- grishka 4y ago
  > the “next big thing” I think will be on the battery You'll get the same mediocre battery life but the phone would be so thin you could slice bread with it.
- bombcar 4y ago
  For something to be a "big thing" it really has to enable new uses that actually matter - once we hit day+ battery life, longer no longer matters (especially with wireless charging); and 3G to 5G hasn't really been noticeable to anyone beyond 3G being slowed beyond belief. A new connector, a new display, these just are minor changes and though they may cause some howling, they don't really change the use of the device. What's the next big new thing? No idea, if I knew I'd make it. But I suspect that it's already been done somewhere, but it won't be big until Apple or someone picks it up.

azinman2 4y ago

> In the end I just think it’s a lovely piece of contemporary art, I like it and I love to give it a glance sometimes I think it’s cool and I’m glad he likes it, but contemporary art it is not.

dublinben 4y ago
You can tell that the author really knows art, because his apartment looks just like an art gallery.

Eric_WVGG 4y ago

I was gifted one of these, an iPhone 4 (the Porsche 911 of smartphones imho). It’s pretty nice! But the quality of the board leaves a little to be desired, they should have sprung for letterpress.

JTon 4y ago
Friend of mine stood in line and got the iPhone 4 on day 1 of release. I remember being in awe of it. Imo, took years for Samsung and other Android smartphones to catch up visually. > the Porsche 911 of smartphone Not a car buff. Would you mind unpacking this analogy?
- bombcar 4y ago
  Older famous car often considered to the "best" even if it isn't the top performance, etc. Read as "pinnacle".
- simonh 4y ago
  An iconic, distinctive and instantly recognisable design.

esotericsean 4y ago

Not sure if I'm allowed to post it here, but that company sent me a Game Boy Color version. It's a lovely piece of art, but with Game Boys back in high demand, a lot of people complained that I would support that company. Partly fueled by those people (and also my own curiosity), I took it apart and put it all back together and turned it into a functioning Game Boy again (and made a YouTube video). It was clear that the console had already had attempted fixes and repairs, but they couldn't get it to work. Kinda interesting, I thought.

ASalazarMX 4y ago

This reminded me I have an old Blackberry that was never used. It would have never occurred me to frame it. Should be easy since it has no glued parts.