Can You Still Use an iPhone 3G in 2024?
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- čas přidán 25. 03. 2024
- Can you still use an iPhone 3G in 2024? We'll answer that question in this video. This 16 year old Apple iPhone 3G is still fully working internally, but will it still run apps, connect to websites, and handle daily tasks that modern smartphones can do? Watch this video to find out! Be sure to leave a comment and let me know what you think!
The wife and I bought iPhone 3GS's back in 2009. We still have them in a box, though mine had the dreaded ballooning battery. I tried to rescue it with a new battery, but it just bootloops now. The wife's still works fine. It's cool seeing these things still working, though technology has kinda moved on. We really enjoyed those phones and used them until we bought our iPhone 4S's to replace them.
had the same problem. your battery is maybe over-discharged and the phone cant revive it. has to be charged externally the first time
Maybe the NAND (a chip that holds all your data) died because of degrade. I could be wrong though. @FlnSkr
@@FlnSkrDid you ignore the part where they said "with a new battery"?
That phone is simply dead now.
I got the 3gs in black with 32gb and got it jailbroken soo i can use some apps like flappy bird again
@@qwertykeyboard5901 if you buy a battery from a 10 year old phone model, you can bet they will send an empty battery to you.. do you think warehouse workers open battery boxes to charge them if they are in the shelves for years?..... any more questions?
This takes me back. I had the 3GS. Good phone. Back in the jailbreaking days. Sigh… life was so different then.
You always do such a good job of serving as tour guide and teacher in these videos! I enjoyed watching! Great job! 😊
I got an iPhone 3GS and it still works!
Great video. Brings back a lot of memories. Josh, when you switched over from resortTV1 to this video last night, there was an awesome cut scene that proceeded it but I don’t see it as part of this video. Where can we see that again? That was awesome.
That cut scene was the CZcams Sci-Fi Premiere Intro. It only plays at the beginning of a Premiere and then is gone when the video is played later. Look up CZcams Sci-Fi Premiere Intro.
I love this video. I was in my late 20's at this time.
ahhh the iphone 3g! i had one of these back in like 2011-2012 i got it for free from my aunts son she got one from him also... she still has hers mine has been long gone for about 10 years...
Very cool! I powered up my June 2007 launch iPhone about a year ago and yep, same experience. It only worked while plugged in, the original battery is toast. Even on Wifi, maps worked also, camera as well. Looking at the official Apple website, painfully slow and the layout was a mess.
Enjoyable vlog.
Yes you can as retro gaming device!!!
I forgot the power button used to be at the top of the phones so that was weird to see lol. It was neat to see the old phone camera and how far the quality of the pictures has changed to present day. Great job making the video 💕
I remember mine took really good pictures but it had to be in direct sunlight. Any less light and it just wasn't as good.
Can't believe it's working
I never had the 3gs but I had got the iPhone 4 as my first smart phone. I did love that phone though of course I did jailbreak it to do all the fun things I did to it but now I use a samsung a54 phone as my main device and its been pretty good so far.
Nice!
My grandmother still uses her iPhone 4s everyday! And iMessage between me and her - even FaceTime still work no problem! There was even a small update for iOS 9 a few years ago to correct a bug. You don’t see that with other companies!
00:48 Good stuff..
Yes!
That’s very nice because I have an iPhone 3GS but my iPhone don’t support maps app
Nice!
I still have iphone 3gs because I like old phones
It's interesting to see this. But apple likes to cut off services in their old phones.
I guess it'll just be useful for voice calls and SMS. Here in Britain we are seeing 3G-HSPA+ now being shut down in stages this year so just useful on 2G - EDGE.
I do remember on the iPod touch 2nd generation, on iOS 4.2.1, CZcams stopped working in the browser around Fall of 2018 and since then, I have not been able to play a CZcams video on iOS 4.2.1. Whats interesting is that the iPod touch 2 and the iPhone 3G stopped at a very stripped down version of iOS 4 with no multitasking, no setting the homescreen background, basically like how it was on iOS 3 and before, I guess due to its low amount of RAM. This iPhone had the same amount of RAM as a typical desktop PC back in 1999 or 2000 running Windows 98 second edition. In fact, I've seen PCs with 128 MB of RAM as early as early 1997. So when the iPhone 3G came out in mid 2008, I was just 24 years old.
Very interesting! And you’re right, I do think they only got updates to iOS 4.2.1 due to lack of ram and cpu power. The 3GS was much more powerful and had lots more ram.
@@retrotv1tech and he was saying well to answer your question, can you use a stock iPhone 3G in 2024? The answer is No.
I wonder
I've been trying to use mine to play music but i can't find a way to add new ones
The "Cannot connect to iTunes" store is more recent. I get the same message on my iPod Touch gen 4. It used to work before 2024, and maybe into January or February, but it was canceled some time this year sadly.
That’s what I was thinking too. Although even when it did connect, you couldn’t download anything because all the apps were made for a newer version of iOS.
I have a 3GS I wish I could use it as my daily phone SO BAD but the internet just doesn’t work. Is there any way without jailbreaking that u could still use internet on it?🤔
First time watcher!
Welcome! :-)
why did you put the 3gs phone on Airplane Mode?, maybe that's why nothing on the phone is working.
Mine works like new still even has 5g for some reason now. After that i downloaded gta seven on my old apple two.
It's not working because airplane mode is on
Wi-Fi was on, so it was still getting internet.
Its amazing how Steve jobs made this ancient technology into the first real complete product and with it. The formula of every smart phone in 2024
Managed to get this far without ever owning an Apple device. Go Android! Cool video Josh.
Wow! Glad Android works for you! I definitely like it for some things. I have both and I can see benefits to both.
3g networks were shut down in 2022.
2g is still available but only in a limited way.
Also it was in airplane mode the whole time.
Yep! I kept it in airplane mode to save battery so it’s not looking for a network. I had the WiFi on though, so it was getting internet.
I was up at Yellowstone NP last month and amazingly and not so surprising my iPhone 14 indicated that the phone system up there was still 3G.
Wow the fact that these are 16 years old is crazy to me.
I know! I was saying the other day that these phones can get their drivers license now. 😂
@@retrotv1tech Two years and these phones can legally drink in the UK
Not anymore in 2024 3g in Australia will be gone.
Yep, I’m on Vodafone AU/TPG, and 3G has been shut down for me since December 2023.
Telstra’s is shutting their 3G service in the end of June, Optus will shut down their 3G in September.
crazy how I used to play clash of cans in this phone back then
Yes… we had all kinds of great games, even then!
“I think this one has coverflow” 😂
Oh…
The Apple 3g devices are not aged that well and today it’s just a pain in the a.. to use one of them Mobil, not sure how it is in different country’s but in Germany we lost our 3g network already a couple of years ago so the devices just still supports 2g anymore what’s a real issue just for something simple like maps…
So if you just need it for making phone calls, read and write sms or mails, maybe play sometimes a game and use calender or notes, yes, it could still work for those but for anybody who wants just a little bit more (like browsing the web) it’s already too much for this device…
I still like it and still hope that I can find some in good condition and not totally overpriced I would buy one just for memory’s and to collect but the oldest devices I would still use are everything after the iPhone 4s (iPad 2 and 3, iPad mini 1 and iPod 5th gen) cuz everything after that’s runs still pretty well on last supported OS and everything after the A5 devices could mostly still be used for browsing the web what’s just most important in most cases…
But as always, everything depends on the usecase, if I would just need a playback device for my NAS for example, even an iPad 1. gen would still be enough for that cuz just needs one single app what’s still available in an older supported version on those old devices and I can still download those cuz I have already loaded it on my first iPad which was a 1. gen one…
(But even for newer users is this now possible if the app ist still for download in the AppStore, the work around here is just download the needed app first with an newer iPhone, iPod or iPad, after that you get the all mighty and wished message „app is not longer supported, wish to load instead the last supported version?“…
For sure it’s not working for newer internet based apps but older one like fileexplorer, like from my example, still works perfectly fine in older versions and makes a perfect home cinema for kids or a perfect mediastation out of an old iPad…
Here in Germany we could get iPads like 1. 2. 3. and 4th gen very often for prices like 30€ (more or less the same in USD) and less and for those small prices the devices could still be usefull for many people…
In the moment I play with the thoughts to buy a couple of those iPads just for ez media in every room cuz best on Apple products, no matter how old they are, they still works just great together and even an old iPad can still use an new HomePod to play music with airplay (even my loyal 2009 iMac still supports my HomePods without any bigger issues)…
You can use any phone that you want if you have the determination
That’s true, but this one is tough since there are no cell towers that support these signals anymore.
The Internet does work and it loads pretty decently quick in the USA, but it might be taking longer for you because you live in a different country and if you don’t and you live in the USA like I do, you must just have bad Internet because my 3GS loads perfectly
I've heard that the US will shut down the 3G (or was it the 2G-EDGE?) network soon, that will make the device fo OOB forever at least in mainland US.
All of the US 3G networks (both UMTS and IS95/CDMA2000) have been shut down - the only US carrier I know of that still offers any sort of 2G service is T-Mobile, but it's quite limited and really now intended to support low speed data devices. Last thing I heard, it was supposed to be shut off at the start of this month (I.E. April 2024), but that's been postponed again.
@@TrimeshSZ Gotcha, the end is near(er).
The iPhone 3G, is, in fact, the iPhone 2G in a new body, the only thing that they did, was give it a 3g modem, and that's it! They claimed it was the best iPhone ever, but no it wasn't, it got ios 4 and it was dogslow on its latest firmware. Bluetooth can connect to airpods, i tried it with the 2g and it freakin' works!
My first iPhone was the 3G
Got it for like £20 off a mate cause signal wasn’t working
Well I got on to apple support and few days later dad took me up to apple shop and got a free replacement 😍😍
Let’s say mate wasn’t happy
I really miss the size of the first iPhones. They just seem so much more convenient and usable with one hand. But I guess we're in the minority if you go by the sales of the 12 & 13 minis and their failure. ;-(
That is so true. For one-handed use, these phones were superior for sure. However, I think with us being used to bigger screens now, it would be hard to go back for very long.
I use the 12 mini and it is way bigger than the 3g. But, that is the smallest you can get nowadays.
i fw you heavy vro ❤
Android utilizes the large screen real estate more efficiently than iphone ever has. Having used several iphones for 12 years of my life with both small and big iphones, I understand the big screen struggle on iphones very well.
You can still use it, but the hardware is not great.
I turned on my sister’s iPhone 3GS and I got nostalgic about videogames, photos/videos etc.
I liked iPhone 3GS but, today is 2024 and we’re moving on new generations. Luckily we have fast internet, cellular, fast and well made smartphones, 5G (soon 6G) so yeah.. if you still using iPhone 3GS, I recommend you to move on to newer iPhone. This is my opinion.
Before Bluetooth
I'm thinking "can you use a stock iPhone 3G in 2024?, the answer is No" aww man. On my first gen iPod touch which still has iOS 1.1.5, I had to use an older computer with Windows XP with an older version of iTunes to be able to load music onto it. Since the recent version won't recognize the iPod touch, I had to go through and search for a version of iTunes made around 2008.
I still have mine but the battery cant hold charge and the central button doesn't work anymore
My home button is definitely not working that well either, but it still mostly works.
Brother, I tried to turn on mine it's still working but it not showing any Wifi network, can you tell me how you connected to your wifi
Hi! You have to make sure you have a 2G WiFi network enabled as well as compatibility mode for older devices on your router.
Hello
josh for me is always 91tech lol
Flightmode is enabled
Yep! All that does is turn off the cellular radio. There’s no 3G or 2G signal here anyway, so since I have WiFi on, it doesn’t matter that airplane mode is on.
Must be on airplane mode. My 2008 works slowly but fine.
It is on airplane mode with WiFi on, so it has full access to the internet as shown by the fact that it can access some webpages and Google Maps data. The only thing airplane mode does is turn off cellular data that doesn’t work anyway.
Let’s goo against the majority. Give me YES!
Can you still use and iPhone 3G in 2024, absolutely... as long as you never use it as an iPhone.
you had aeroplane mode on
That doesn’t affect anything because I had WiFi on as well.
I'm guessing no
you should turn the Airplane Mode off. You are not in an Airplane or not on a flight.
I have it on to save battery since there are no 3G cell towers. WiFi was still on, and internet was connected.
Maybe this iPhone on the video does not work because he has it on airplane mood. Look at the upper left had corner of his phone.
Whys it in airplane mode
Because cellular doesn’t work anyway, and you can have WiFi and airplane mode on at the same time.
I have one for sell
For me this would be a really quick conclusion. It can't run whatsapp, then it's useless as a phone to me.
I don’t use WhatsApp much, but I totally get it!
Is that phone in airplane mode? It looks like it is, with the little airplane in the left corner...
It is because cellular doesn’t work anyway, but WiFi is still on.
Yes I'm guessing and no
It could depend on the cell towers sometimes there is no 3G towers on
@@TheBrettYTagreed I expected he would be trying cellular
There isn’t any 3G anywhere and they just shut down 2G, so even if I had a SIM card, it wouldn’t work unfortunately.
An Obvious answer: no
3 g been shut off by many carriers
No. It's extremely limited and slow
The real question is, can it still call 9-11 in an emergency??
An iPhone 3G in 2024 has very limited functionality
An obvious answer: no
Still fun to try though! :-)
Ewww, gross. I am so glad I switched to Android.
lol. Get a grip
Broo it‘s not terrible and with Cydia and Some Tweaks you can make older iPhone‘s working again .i got the 3gs on ios 6 youtube works (not shorts) and i got flappy birds and other applications
Lame ass phone 😂😂😂