History Of Cellphones And How Drastically They've Changed

The first cell phone was created in 1973. Since then, pretty much everything about it has drastically changed. Here's where "cell" phones originated from and where they may go in the future.
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[@RicardoDiaz-dd4nk]

I'm watching this on my phone

[@SwordBlaze]

iooi Still satisfied with my S8 :P

[@willyappel7722]

Not even implanted? So weird.

[@kimberlyisherwood4564]

👍 me too.

[@MrEOM41]

I'm on my phone and on the toillet

[@JillianNoelle]

Me too

[@angelotero7729]

crazy how far phones have gotten I'm here watching this video about cell phones on my cell phone

[@jemuel2315]

It's nice to see Tech Insider actually talking abt Technology!!!

[@Leto85]

What a great video. Summarized and clear. Thanks! I needed this.

[@theylied1776]

You have to do one of these mini-docs on the cable industry. It's fascinating how it started and its Evolution up to today.

[@LycanWitcher]

for the intro phone morphs.. you skipped over an entire era of phones, the 2000-mid 2000s era where phones were getting smaller and thiner, as small as possible before they returned to being modern large display smartphones. small and thin phones were popular, such as a motorolla razr phones and even smaller offerings by brands like Siemens. Wasn't until the iPhone that large phones (due to large displays) became fashionable again.

[@XxMeTa_Zr0xX]

4:01 this is where the apocalypse have just begun...

[@flowerfloc]

And now there is a phone brand that sells phones without a headphone jack, 😐😑

[@UltimateChocoWy1]

Oempa Loempa but on the other hand it does that limit the number of ports on the phones, so maybe in the future there will be no ports.

[@blondy2061h]

Oempa Loempa at least two now...

[@yourfriendlylocalhannah5149]

apple gives you the airpods so it’s not like you can’t listen to music

[@willowmcpherson8995]

Your Friendly Local Hannah no they don’t lol they give you regular wired headphones with an adapter to plug into the charging port. AirPods must be bought separately.

[@ln6671]

iphone 7 plus ..

[@dahayusuf7477]

Can anyone imagine what a cell phone would look like 100 years from now?

[@hosseinhess927]

Yes, just watch futuristic movies 😊

[@mrphauker]

Holographic, we’ll probably just have to say a word or something and all that we would need would show up in front of us in a holographic like on some iron man stuff

[@PanPrezeso]

@@mrphauker Smartphones will probably go Augmented Reality route

[@franksandoval6046]

@@PanPrezeso what the problem about payphones ?

[@ChatGPT1111]

It'll be integrated into your contact lens or a neural net. Of course that will be 1000 or more years from now because in a 100 years, China will have already obliterated the planet.

[@jordanlamberson792]

Idk about y'all but I'm not putting any piece of technology inside my body

[@lhinatal2422]

Lol so true

[@bladeoftheruinedking2543]

I want the arc reactor

[@rodneyjohnson6313]

I agree with you 100% ain't going to happen for me

[@jaysilva5854]

I agree I think implant cell phone is like inspector gadget! 🤣

[@xaviertyack5640]

Outside of potential health risks can't see a reason not to, most of us have a phone on us 24/7 anyways, what difference does it make whether its inside or outside our body

[@nysteven1]

Nah screw implanted phones

[@adhdgaming5729]

Watching this on my Xr. Not even a home button anymore. How far we’ve come.

[@hownottoasmr7637]

May I ask the question everyone has, what's an implantable phone??

[@isDatBoi]

Mr. Random a chip that will be in ur body... Everywhere you go... Someone know where you at

[@shubhansusingh6340]

Mr. Random I think it will be like you will be injected local anesthesia in your hand or finger and small clip will be put you hand or finger ....That's it

[@kankunation13]

Mr. Random Its a chip or dock implanted into your body, connected to your nervous system. basically it would allow you to control your phone with thoughts. and be able to in theory give you a game-like heads up display; only it's projected onto the world by your mind instead of a real screen. if you want a visual example, look up the anime excel world and just look at the first 10 or so minutes. the tech they use in that is pretty much the dream concept of an implanted computer/phone.

[@tuliocano8468]

Watch Total Recall (new versión) you'll see.

[@legacyteam5581]

I've always wanted to cosplay as JC Denton.

[@beastieman4207]

my grand parents still used the old phones

[@lycian123]

This only applies to the USA. The British system was a radiophone that required operators. The first networks in the UK to utilise the cellular method were copies of the system operating on the eastern US seaboard. Racal Vodaphone differed from the BT Securicor network in how it operated the cells. I used to have one of the old cellphones and also used one of the old radiophones. Since I retired from BT I don't carry a mobile phone at all.

[@wildestcowboy2668]

Piss on the BLOODY British. US Marines whipped ur butts before and will whip u skirt wearing men again

[@brixiex2580]

so- im showing my son old tech- he is 10- this is amazing.

[@rzxkp7none275]

Thank you. I can hold my cellphone up to my regular phone and hear my cellphone conversations on my regular phone.

[@dovgame]

Its 2024 where’s our implantable phone? 😂

[@standardannonymousguy]

Imagine if cell phones had "E-Ink" technology! It'd be black and white but the batteries would last very much longer!

[@reneebriggs4648]

Its 2024, WHERE IS MY CYBORG PHONE????!!!!

[@ournumberone]

WOW, so amazing

[@jasonNguyen618]

I wish Motorola still American owned. I just love the history and how it became, not some company just buys technology.

[@lazarusblackwell6988]

Inplantable phones? I dont need that. I dont want to be a living call answering machine. Phone calls today give me nothing but trauma

[@shubhansusingh6340]

I almost forgot I'm using a phone

[@zainahmad8135]

Can the background music at the start of the video be found on KZbin to listen?

[@vibey3790]

Well this was a good video 😃😃

[@DanielSparten]

Finally a video by Tech Insider..... ABOUT TECH :O HOLY MOLY *TECH* :D

[@user-ms4ef8xz9t]

History of the cell phone?! You left out the 80s and 90s. You might want to try again.

[@walangpart2]

See in the past 10 hours to charge and 30 minutes to use but now we got a reverse result of 30 mins of charge and 10 hours of use😅😅

[@louivillehammer4346]

Ima come back in 4 years and revisit this video

[@garypavlick5825]

My Dyna-tac works fine. Never needed another phone. Dropped it a thousand times. Many times into the toilet during the 80s. Just keeps on working. And excepts all New upgrades. MIRACULOUSLY!

[@jgmusic81]

People say Apple invented smartphones in 2007. But I remember that year I owned something called O2 XDA running on Win Mobile. There was calling/texting and the apps like Tomtom satnav, explorer browser, all operated with touchscreen. There was nice little device very similar to modern smartphones

You guys have a stunning interesting network! Thank you!

[@HappyHands.]

I had a RadioShack bag phone as my first cell phone.the Audio quality on that bag phone has yet to be surpassed. Then i upgraded to a Startac which i destroyed by nervously chewing on the antenna

[@youneskettani62]

We are in 2024, this didn't happen

[@tjmukwevho]

No shit

[@mixideas3991]

People in 2024 thinking backward 😂

[@thevoiditsings]

hasn't this aged nicely

[@issac7787]

we're standing on the shoulder of giant, incredible technology, genius inventor and engineers.

[@ChatGPT1111]

I had one of those first brick Motorola phones in the 80's. I remember driving all over the U.S. looking at the Roam light to see where the towers were. I first called my dad vacationing from a boat at Mussel Shoals AL.

[@davidcowan4705]

Muscle Shoals, not Mussel.

[@blakey9414]

Thx u just gave me the answers to my hw;(homework)

[@aidencall4557]

Anyone know the name of the song from 2:27 - 2:52. Looked all over for it, can't find anything!

[@MH-YouTube-Controlled]

Watching this on my phone and I had a Fleetwood with a Bell mobile phone, in 1977. "This is the Bell Mobile Operator" People would run out of meetings, "it's a mobile call for you Bob!" Nobody runs for a phone call anymore.

[@HiHACKER]

Celullaa? What? Nice video!

[@LeonardoDaEasy]

What's the name of the soundtrack, which is playing first? :-))

[@shooterco.]

Dope video

[@officialrabia....5948]

It's too good 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@Sacto1654]

Remember back in the 1960's and 1970's when science fiction novels talked about a handheld portable communication device? Well, that became reality when the Palm Treo and Windows Mobile devices became widely available in the middle 2000's even _before_ the iPhone arrived.

[@bobweiram6321]

Before the Treo and Windows Mobile, Apple had already invented the Newton.

[@OmegaWolf747]

Love my Androids. Implantable? No, thanks. 📱

[@SupaEMT134]

*_Car_* phones? Yeahok. We're definitely being punked by "Tech Insider"

[@Synovia]

SupaEMT134 nope, its true

[@drycrade4551]

It's so funny that the price drastically changed until today.

[@drivesthecar3247]

I've always envisioned a phone implanted in a molar like a filling and powered by the nerve of the tooth.

[@chestosneakoinc]

I got SO fucking emotional when he started talking about the iphone from 2007!!!

[@stickah]

*yaya, it's fun when older media make up an approximation of what future will be, it's fun when you're close to that "future" so you know if they were right after all…*

[@cupcake37ww17]

These fandroids be bashing apple but without apple their favorite android brands wouldnt be around or wouldnt have the same phone design. Apple started all this revolution. Respect them.

[@dislikes2724]

Yeah and I mean the galaxy s1 looks like a complete ripoff of the original IPhone 😂

[@diegohernandez5862]

1973: charging time 10 hours, battery time 35 min. 2019: charging time 35 min (the most), 10 hours battery time. Well, well. Even tho we don't have flying cars yet, that's pretty significant I must say. Let's see what future brings up next.

[@kkproductions4774]

What 10hrs an iphone battery dries in 2 to 3 hours of non stop use

[@diegohernandez5862]

kiarie Ericky I have the 11 and the battery lasts 4-8 depending on the usage but yeah I get you, although some smartphones nowadays do last pretty long. It was a just a comparison tho.

[@warriorsage591]

Thanks god for blessing us with this technology

[@phothewin6019]

So, we're supposed to have implanted phones next month? 😂

[@zainahmad8135]

What is the music in the background called?

[@wulwul1477]

You know how awkward that would be if somebody caught you just talking to your hand in 2024?

[@MarkSimpson-md8tn]

Part 2 please

[@AndrewBoniface09]

You can't make a history of cellphones without even a slight mention of Nokia 3310.

[@tennoklark]

You forgot the Bag Phone like on The Big Lebowski.😂

[@billnig5]

Here we are now in 2017 where phones aren't even used for calling anymore. Oh the irony.

[@TECHLOVER_91]

People still talk on the phone so this comment is very stupid

[@danielbrown1724]

I’m still using the Dynatac phone Should I upgrade?

[@thelapismineshaft7170]

Without Steve Jobs and the iPhone, what would cell phones look like today?

[@AndrewAce.]

2:33 - I didn't realize that calculators could make calls...

[@NoBlanks]

I used to have a Razr V3 when I was 6

[@MSP_]

4:01 casually throwing the mark in there, may God protect us all.

[@Tyrone-qr7ig]

It's 2024 and I'm still waiting for my implantable phone to arrive

[@tripplevirgo]

Something wrong or missing here I bought the first phone released in Australia and it was a Besser Block size , not a house brick size.

[@ch1ckennuggets481]

the last section has a similar theory like that in black mirrors s4's arkangel ep.

[@Mayuri1994ify]

oh yeah i remebered i used to dream of having the motorola from 2004

[@SamuelBarreno-nj1it]

The truth is that I was always curious about this

[@josephgracia7650]

aaandd i'm watching this video with my phone right now.

[@EKoS26]

Does the Implantable Phone have headphone jack?

[@jimandrews4261]

I think tech glasses will be next

[@Andy1341000]

Who’s the kid on the phone at 1:22 looks oddly familiar like I’ve seen him somewhere, this happens to me sometimes drives me crazy when I can’t figure out who someone is.

[@toyclyde]

That's "Zack Morris", played by Mark-Paul Gosselaar from the TV series "Saved By The Bell".

[@jiayilim1986]

I was born in 2001 and this video is already making me feel old. I remember growing up with those bulky house phones. Young kids born today will never know... :( I bet it's making many of you guys older feel even older.

[@charlieme5150]

_2001? HA!_ Go eat your Lucky Charms and watch your cartoons, adults are talking here.

[@xwearenumber1x]

16 is an okay age I guess.

[@someoneinthecrowd4313]

+Jia Yi Lim Those born today will feel the same way in 16 years. "Damn I remember growing up with smart phones"

[@buyeth2047]

People still have house phones. You're not old at all lol.

[@christyshultz6443]

So 2023 here and I'm not seeing tech to put in my head to get me on the way of anywhere LOL neuralink aside that is😂

[@GabdaG]

I greaking love buttons, all those phones lacked was the slide to uunlock.

[@khaIid624]

The year is 2024 and I'm here to say that no we don't have implantable phone chips yet

[@jayrony69]

3:56 so....

[@electronicsforus9150]

wow we have come a long way

[@skyanthony200]

"We'll have implantable phone chips by 2024" Well that was wrong

[@tommynorthwood]

I'm watching this...On my phone!

[@nitilpoddar]

how does he makes these types of animations????☺

[@TylerHainesSSTEACHER]

What is this song from ?

[@gonzaloramosdelaguila5177]

O. K. I want my implantable phone right now

[@christyshultz6443]

They've also been promising Holograms between now and another 5-10 years so wondering where all that's coming from and going to happen as well😅

[@thefpvlife7785]

I'm still yet to cut the cord man.

[@sashadestiny1621]

Who is the author for this or the name of the person who put this information together???

[@westzapwood8697]

Why didn't this video include Nokia 3310??

[@Lexi2019AURORA]

The Great and Powerful Indestructable Nokia 3310

[@volkerball85]

Because the Nokia 3310 is a meme. Yes, it was very popular and very durable, but in terms of innovation it was just another cellphone. The internet and memes have inflated its importance and "legendary" status.

[@oussematrabelsi9429]

Nokia didn't immovate in phones at all. Motorola, and Ericsson did all the innovations. Nokia just made good phones but they weren't innovative

[@militantpacifist4087]

1:43 with that amount of money I could buy 8 iPhone Xs today.

[@JBTech.Genius]

Militant Pacifist yeah first cellphone cost more iPhone X. So when people complain iPhone X too expensive cost $1,000 well first cellphone was expensive too. Crazy right

[@leslieroycroft3569]

So I know the government probably already knows everything about me including what I had for breakfast but I won’t be getting a phone implant.😕

[@Inamichan]

I used to want a side kick so badly as a kid 😂

[@colbalt95]

0:05 _I like how they put the iPhone up there like it is currently the pinnacle of innovative technology_

[@omnise]

Follow the money. Who would you guess backed this historical ad? 😂

[@lightheart5]

I did an essay on this in college

[@AndrewRock3431]

The first phone could only last 35 mins while my friends has calls that go for 7 hours

[@RyansTechReviews29]

Once screens were introduced, everything changed.

[@2hard2find]

Ellon Musks " We are already cyborgs, were just not physically attached to our gadgets"

[@sleepy.dreamer]

i hope this doesn’t sound like a dumb question, but which comes first, car phones or telephone booths?

[@sertaki]

I am very disappointed Japanese cell phones were not included in this video. They had their very own proto-smartphones with apps a few years before the iPhone hit markets. Still, Japanese phones are unknown in the west thanks to the quirk that they only work with the Japanese phone networks.

[@BoostedFA]

Had all the phones from 1996 forward.