A Time Machine and iPhone 6S+

[Ketchup]

TBH, I don't think I could resist the urge to go forward in time and see what the iPhone 34S has to offer.

 

[Ichinisan]

I think going back to early 90's with a 512GB microSD card would be a trip.

They'd have nothing to put on the card. You'd have nothing to put the card into.

 

[Crono]

Rubycon is asking a hypothetical question, but I'm guessing she's figured out how to make time travel work & is looking for fun ideas to troll people with when she goes into the past 😀

Rubycon? :hmm:

 

[lxskllr]

TBH, I don't think I could resist the urge to go forward in time and see what the iPhone 34S has to offer.

You could trade your valuable antique for one each of the product line... and an electric self driving Porsche... That sounds like fun, doesn't it? :^D

 

[dainthomas]

I'd go back 1,000 years, and be wizard. I could probably rig a charger to keep the magic going. They'd treat me like a god.

You could take solar phone chargers back with you and become Supreme Benevolent Overlord of the World.

Either that or you'll be skinned, beheaded, chopped up, burned at the stake, and your ashes sealed in an iron box and thrown in a lake.

Could really go either way.

 

[CoPhotoGuy]

They'd have nothing to put on the card. You'd have nothing to put the card into.

Meh, I'll bring my laptop.

 

[ViRGE]

I remember in the early 2000's my wife's analog cell phone was no longer going to work with AT&T's (or was it Cingular) digital network. So would a digital phone work on the analog network in the 1990's?

There was nearly a decade of overlap between the analog (AMPS) and 2G GSM networks. It took a long time to build out GSM, and even then they needed to wait a while before pulling the plug on AMPS.

 

[CZroe]

Rubycon? :hmm:

The answer is "yes."

 

[Linux23]

I am disappoint. No one said sports almanac in PDF.

November 5th, 1955.

 

[Bock]

duh, go back & take pictures of the past.
anything else will get you killed by the time police.

 

[NoTine42]

I think going back to early 90's with a 512GB microSD card would be a trip.

microSD (with smaller capacities) still amaze me when I hold a card, and start doing a floppy disc conversion ....

I would choose a StarMap 3D+ app to show off (it's still the app that seems most Jetson's-like to me). The app works in airplane mode, so I'm guessing it works without GPS available?

 

[Rakehellion]

I'd go back 1,000 years, and be wizard. I could probably rig a charger to keep the magic going. They'd treat me like a god.

You'd be burned at the stake.

 

[Rakehellion]

After all if you could use the phone part it would be more impressive.

That's really not the impressive part since people already had cell phones. The fact that you have a machine in the palm of you hand that's ten times more powerful than the fastest computer available is the impressive part.

 

[Imp]

When as YouTube invented?

That year and I'll introduce the unboxing video... And short Blackberry, sorry, I mean Research in Motion.

 

[FerrelGeek]

Or either burn you at the stake for witchcraft.

That was my thought 🙂

 

[tynopik]

I think going back to early 90's with a 512GB microSD card would be a trip.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of microSD cards hurtling down the highway

 

[CZroe]

microSD (with smaller capacities) still amaze me when I hold a card, and start doing a floppy disc conversion ....



I would choose a StarMap 3D+ app to show off (it's still the app that seems most Jetson's-like to me). The app works in airplane mode, so I'm guessing it works without GPS available?

Probably can't set the system time back to make things match up. It probably wouldn't work because it wouldn't be able to place satellites that didn't exist and such back then. I'm pretty sure it's caching most of the stuff that works offline because it isn't calculating all the complex telemetry locally.

 

[IronWing]

Cache a bunch of maps and Google Earth imagery and head back to 1991 to show people the future of GPS. I was in grad school when several departments at my fair university pooled their money to buy two Trimble units (one base station and one roamer so they could do differential post-processing). The package cost somewhere north of $30k.

Prior to 1991, the availability of satellites would diminish as you moved backward in time. I don't know if the pre-1989 satellites used the same freqs, signalling as the newer satellites.

 

[Crono]

The answer is "yes."

:awe: D:

 

[Rakehellion]

Let's say you are a time traveler. You already have the latest and greatest iPhone 6S+ today! 😉

Let's say you wanted to go back to impress someone. How far could you go back before its radio would no longer work on the older cellular networks? After all if you could use the phone part it would be more impressive. Wifi would be dead before ~2001 or so.

Of course if you had it jam packed with videos and such and headed back to the 40s it would cause quite a stir. :biggrin:

Also, the thread title was confusing since Time Machine is the name of another Apple technology and you capitalized it for some mysterious reason.