Is that the technical way to open an iPhone?

gah..... people are hammering iphones, while I spend hours creating a picture pixel by tedious pixel for your competition to just get a chance win an iphone!(I would buy one but I am a couple hundred short and my parents won't let me spend that much money) I hope all the other submissions are not that great because I am putting a LOT of time into this

.............Dumb asses.

I will never understand the people who protest and/or show their disapproval of a product (or company, I suppose) by spending several hundred dollars on said item (the money going to said company) just so they can publicly destroy it.

That said, I think this video is a bit of a backfire. With two people, a hammer and a screwdriver, it still took abou 20 seconds of continuous pounding just to break the GLASS screen. This is practically an iPhone commercial highlighting it's resilience to harm.

Every time I watch this, I die a little on the inside and cry a drop of blood.

cool...Would of Enjoyed it more with Better lighting...

If I see one more iPhone post I think I'm gonna have to just jump out a window.

@JEDIBUGS - its art man, you arent supposed to 'understand'. ill never understand why people make paintings with their poo and menstrual blood either, but they still keep doing it.

I can understand a scientific study of what the iPhone can take, especially from a magizine like Consumer Reports, but I really don't understand people's need to (a) destroy stuff just for the fun of it, and (b) waste money in such a senseless fashion. How many more people do we need both destroying and taking apart these products (besides which, for the people taking them apart, you should send the remaining parts to hackint0sh)?

Yes, it's these people's money. Yes, they can do what they want with it. But it's hard for not to think of how the money could go to feed a starving family, help improvished countries, or go to help families torn apart by wars. I'm not saying you need to spend all your money. I have an iPhone myself -- I'm not advocating giving up all your material posessions to save the world. I am suggesting that maybe people actually try to start acting more like humans beings. It's okay to love the gadgets, but it doesn't mean you can't think about other people too.

Think of how many cheezeburgers that $600 could get for all the hungry lolcats...

what a waste.

You don't need to break it open to tell it sucks. No stylus, no hardware keyboard, no bluetooth file transfer, no bluetooth audio, half vga, 2g phone and 2g internet, no removable battery, no flash or java, no voice dialing, no recording, no IM, no memory card slot, no mms, no video recording, no gps, no file explorer, no custom ringtones, etc. The list goes on and on. It's amazing how carelessly Gizmodo and other blogs touted this device as the ultimate smartphone when it's anything but smart.

The haste of their destruction and the nervousness in their voice leads me to believe that they stole the iphone, and are looking for net recognition for its destruction. If that's true I would remove the video.

The first video of 2 clowns physically hammering an iPhone was disturbing. Maybe these are the same people who catch flies and rip their wings for no other reason than to fill their sadistic minds.

They have strange accents too especially the brown dude doing the hammering.

You fuck-tards... I would have gladly taken that off your hands...

why?!?! stop! nooooo!!! I cringed when I watched that video.

I think I'm gonna cry.

@zedebsky:
Took the words out of my mouth.. only typed them more eloquently ;)

.. A gadget blog, whom i've loved forever.. bowing down to hype more than useful gadgetry. ... weak, yet we all witnessed it, it's still sad.

What a bunch of stupid white boys.

@zeb: i would never claim the iphone is perfect, but enough people apparently feel that having a system that works well and simply is better than a system that can do many things, but not very well.

I had a zaurus at one point, and for it's time, it had a good deal of features. Except for battery life. Apple is well known for dictating ro people what they need. In the end they'll make something that makes some ppl very happy, and others very mad.

Personally I much rather have the small form factor and extended battery lidlce ober all those features. And the 2.5g rreally is 't so bad. It's nplot meant to replace the desktop, but rather provide a mobile platform.

ok people get over your materialism, yes the iPhone is neat and I even got to use my friend's and test it out.

Those two obviously stole the iPhone. There is no other explanation as to why anyone would break it in such a crude way. People spend 2-4 weeks making that sort of money to afford it, and these punks deserve to be caught...

Any chance you can get these vids converted so I can watch iPhone destruction on iPhone?

@Hyuga: In that case can I have your stuff?

ZEDEBSKY, what you oughta do is start a company, and make and sell a product on the principle that the list of features is what is important, rather than little unimportant things like usability of those features or the elegance of the design.

Let us know how it works out for you, ok?

Does he have a disposable income?

What the iPhone lacks in features it makes up for in making me feel like I'm in a sci-fi/spy movie.

/me continues using touch screen google maps and pretending to be a spy.

Two words re: first video: Poisonous Battery

Bonus words:

I've never understood the smashing up of perfectly good gadgetyness in the name of a few extra YouTube hits or maybe a spot on a news-starved blog.

That first video showed how a bunch of teenagers with too much money can make Americans look stupid to the world. Thanks guys -- we really needed that.

Yeah... its all fun and games, when its smashing an XBox 360 or PS3.

But, oh my God! He smashed an iPhone!?

Worth it, just for the knowledge that a bunch of Apple fanboys just crapped their pants.

"Me Tarzan. Me SMASH phone!!!"

The "Hammer Twins" above either lifted that phone from someone's pocket, or they're a couple of spoiled brats.

What a waste.

And hey, guys, you ever hear of a work bench, a vice, and some proper tools? Use those and disassemble it like a man instead of a couple of monkeys, OK?

Or better yet, sell it for half price, take the money, and do something useful with your lives. Yeah, yeah, let's go with that.

It goes on and on....

And look, more IPhone!

Why would you pay $650 to do that?!

ANATOMY OF A GIZMODO PAGE IN THE IPHONE ERA

16 posts, 14 of them about the iPhone.

#1.) Gizmodo sees Steve Jobs from across the room:

Yet another post on dissecting the iPhone, like it's ET or something.

#2.) Some random post about toys.

#3.) A post about a piggy bank.

#4.) Gizmodo winks at Steve Jobs:

If there's anything you don't like about the iPhone, blame AT&T not Apple.

#5.) Gizmodo winks at Steve Jobs:

Wow! It enlarges text!

#6.) Gizmodo winks at Steve Jobs:

Here are applications you will want to install on you iPhone!

#7.) Gizmodo sends Steve Jobs a drink:

The LG is stupid. The iPhone is awesome!

#8.) Gizmodo walks over to Steve Jobs, asks him if he's new in town:

People who buy iPhones are unique and wonderfully individualistic.

#9.) Gizmodo strikes up witty conversation with Steve Jobs:

Did you know you can buy iPhones at AT&T and Mac stores? PS: Any problems? Blame AT&T not Apple.

#10.) Gizmodo buys Steve Jobs another drink:

Hey, it's easier to buy an iPhone today than it was yesterday!

#11.) Gizmodo impresses Steve Jobs with its witty bantor:

Have problems activating your iPhone? It's AT&T's fault not yours (or Apple's)!

#12.) Gizmodo suggests to Steve Jobs that they leave this dirty bar:

More iPhone customer .jpg porn.

#13.) Gizmodo invites Steve jobs into apartment:

Hey, contrary to media reports, the iPhone isn't really that big. Heck, it's only slightly longer than the iPod!

#14.) Gizmodo offers drink to Steve Jobs:

Hey, guess what? People made viral videos about… you guessed it!

#15.) Gizmodo unzips Steve Jobs blue jeans, begins fellating him:

Rumor has it you can unlock your iPhone (maybe) like every other phone on the planet.

#16.) Gizmodo takes the facial:

We're giving Away an . . . iPhone!

I actually enjoyed the first video. Not just because, like ZEDEBSKY, i believe this overpriced smartphone is anything but smart, but also because im all tired of all the stupid hype about it. I cant read gizmodo without having to see a ton of iPhone posts. Yes, i know i can block all the iPhone posts, but guess what??? if i do that, theres nothing else to read. C´mon guys, you are better than this, this is going too far, dont be such Apple bitches.

@zedebsky

The iPhone sucks, does it? So we'll ignore the positive appraisals by some of the leading tech reviewers (I'm sure they were bribed), and we'll also ignore the very positive polls of recent buyers (maybe these people are swayed too easily by shiny things). I agree that some people drink the iPhone cool-aid, but others such as yourself seem to have consumed something that makes you too anti-iPhone to see that the phone does many things better than any other phone (even yours). Blindly negative haters like yourself are worse than the crazy iPhone fanatics. The phone has good points and bad points, and if you can't see the good and the bad then you're too caught up in tech politics to make a rational appraisal.

Hi I am a user of a tech support site and recently I saw they added the iPhone PDAs from Apple into their database. Few hours after the launch of the iphone there were allready lots of troubleshooting and support questions.
Here is the page for iPhone Support from this tech support site.

Amazing no?

Mike

@ JEDIBUGS : the same way I dont understand why one would buy it!

BTW, would love to see this more often ;-)

@OLEGNA: That was the best comment on Gizmodo I have ever read! Sums up just about the whole gizmodo's iphone shagging show. Now lets see if it can make it to the 'best comment' section.

iphone killed by iidiots, wadda ya know.

Pretty high production quality on the second video. The nerds on the voice-over sound like Bill and Steve in the early days.

What's more likely is that these guys broke it open as fast as possible to see who made the components. At the time this video surfaced, after-hours trading was still possible. iPhone came out at 6pm EST with after-hours orders running until 8pm EST. So whatcha wanna bet these guys placed some trades ten minutes after cracking it open? $600 to get actionable, profitable intelligence.

What's scary is that one of these guys has a wedding ring on his hand...I doubt the leading tech journalists were "bribed" but some of them are as old as my father. I was also astonished that Walt Mossberg didn't have trouble typing on the thing because it seems like he has trouble with small buttons and anything that requires any amount of manual dexterity.

Do they still have to pay for their two year service plan at $40 per month?

I'd like to see applecare turn this one down as user error

is YouTube giving anyone else an assload of trouble? Either with the site or embedded video?

Well.. let them do whatever they want with the iPhone... if it's theirs, of course.
People do spend their money in such ways.
They smashed the iPhone and posted it on video. I've seem people spending much more for doing much less and doing yet more harm on videos.

But if that was one of those "I'll post a video of me smashing the iPhone just for popularity", that was just fucking dumb.
Video sucks, quality is horrible, no lighting, only one camera caught the action, and nothing more.

It was worthless for iPhone fans, and worthless for iPhone haters.

@xsportseeker: "But if that was one of those "I'll post a video of me smashing the iPhone just for popularity", that was just f***ing dumb."

Lol.. I think it's pretty obvious that was the motive.

That rotating platform that it is on, is the rotating plate from the inside of a microwave.