Version History: iPhone 4

Hey. It's your friend David Pierce here. This week, we're bringing you another episode from season two of version history. Like I mentioned last week, if you wanna get these episodes as soon as they arrive, follow the version history podcast feed wherever you get podcasts. You can find it ad free if you're a Verge subscriber. This is a really fun episode, though, and we wanted to make sure you heard it too. Let's do it. It's early twenty ten, and in a few months, we're probably gonna get a new iPhone. We get a new iPhone in the spring of every year. There's something different about the one this year, which is that maybe you've already seen it. From The Verge and Vox Media, this is Version History, a show about the best and worst and strangest and most important products in tech history. I'm David Pierce. And on this episode, we are talking about the iPhone four, the iPhone that lived before it lived. Support for this episode comes exclusively from Snapdragon. PCs powered by Snapdragon X Elite processors are made to go the distance. With up to twenty two hours of battery life, they give you true freedom to work and wander without being tethered to an outlet. From takeoff to touchdown and every deadline in between, your PC stays ready so you can stay productive wherever the day takes you. Learn more at snapdragon.com/laptops. Battery life varies significantly based on device, settings, usage, and other factors. Snapdragon branded products are products of Qualcomm Technologies Inc and or its subsidiaries. Alright. It's time for the iPhone four. Maybe maybe the best iPhone, maybe the most interesting iPhone. We have a lot to talk about. Neil Apsel is here. Hello, buddy. It's the best iPhone. Stop getting ahead of me, Neil. Alright? Walt Mossberg is here. Hi, Walt. Hi, David. This reminds me of the old days, except back then I was getting paid to do this. I like it better this way, personally. Yeah. I'm sure you do. Yeah. This is new media, Walt. Everyone's doing it for brand deals. I'm just a I'm just a poor pensioner, and I'm here I am. You're just here to say wild things that make for good TikToks. That's that's your job on this show. So the the reason I asked you both to be here, I would say, is is going to become very obvious very quickly here. Not only is the story of the iPhone sort of intersecting with a lot of work that you were both doing at the time, you both actually figure into this story in personally in some really interesting ways. We picked this phone to do, this is the first iPhone we've done on the show, and we picked this one to do because there is so much story both about and kind of around this iPhone. And it features many more characters, including both of you, than it normally does. All …