The Disney Cell Phones - America Edition

[@ring_row]

a video about old crappy cellphones is exactly what i needed to procastinate my exams

[@harriska]

Good luck! Just finished my GCSEs today

[@robertsteel3563]

Please keep procrastinating! :P

[@danielespandri9970]

omg, I'm in the same situation

[@ring_row]

@@danielespandri9970 sessione estiva

[@betoniera]

@@ring_row io invece ho la maturità 😔

[@lenk1432]

Using emergency family alerts for free texting is so funny

[@CaptainApathetic]

What's even funnier is that SMS basically uses no extra resources bc it piggybacks off other signals so limiting the number of texts was solely for profit.

[@aribantala]

I remember back when in my place, despite SMS texting was so cheap (if I remember correctly, it was like USD 0.1 cent per character), Network providers still sold "data plan" for Texting, which charges you, like, 10 cents per message... Not per character And I still kinda don't get it even today lol, an SMS was like, 250-300 characters max, and when we use all of that character, that's 25 cents to 30 cents per text... That's a long wall of text even for me. I use SMS to say something like "Meet me at McD by the park in 10" or something like that, which is 3 cents at most lol

[@okamithelucario]

"And speaking of restrictions raid sh- just kidding" lmao best part so far, I love these videos

[@dilianvt]

I legit thought he was sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends until I freaking realized that he didn’t stumble his words and tried to make a surprise joke about restrictions

[@tswan137]

Lmao 💀

[@RobertTheGamer8]

8:31

[@unusedaccount-b7t]

yeah

[@Markimark151]

I remember Disney Mobile, I went to Disneyland in 2006, it was being heavily advertised and promoted to family travelers! I thought their marketing was terrible, because they missed the opportunity of special features and themes like Pirates of the Caribbean, Lilo and Stitch, and Cars to other providers like T Mobile and Cingular at that time. They could’ve sponsored their Disney branded phones to major carriers, instead of this walled garden cell phone service!

[@Skiedeagle]

You can probably extract the ringtones from the phones somehow and submit them to the phonetones archive so we can hear them in their crisp glory.

[@ethanjchoo]

That's what I'd like, too.

[@JomasterTheSecond]

These would be perfect props for a teen high school drama film set very, very specifically in the years 2006 and/or 2007.

[@santosic]

I feel like Disney Mobile, as a concept anyway, was way ahead of its time. I think, had they launched it in this modern era, it might have fared better, due to the high degree of customizability Android provides these days. They could slap their own skin on it and even have the phone come with their own apps pre installed such as Disney+ and DisneyNow. Make it a T-Mobile MVNO (which now has Sprint spectrum as well) and they could have even offered it to unlocked third party phones, too, similar to other GSM MVNOs. Slap in a few Disney exclusive perks such as discounted Disney+ or other perks like that and it could have probably fared really well. A bestselling service? Unlikely even then, but it'd probably have done better than it did way back when by comparison lol.

[@WellBeSerious12]

The phone itself was 50/20$, so that's probably why soo many sales. And probably not enough customers to sustain its hardware cost loss.

[@TweeterMan287]

For about a millisecond, you had me with that Raid joke.

[@yourdonefor4454]

I thought he said "rage" as a joke about how angry he was about the controlling parents options.

[@Maria_745]

"Priority" text messages weren't just a Disney mobile thing, I think they were called "urgent" messages by other providers and either hidden in the settings or not a well known feature. I couldn't find much about them online from a quick search but I believe the delivery process was actually slightly different for priority sms messages. I remember receiving "urgent" texts as late as 2010 taking advantage of that loophole

[@YS_Production]

Wanted to say I never heard of them up here in central europe, but then I remembered - back when online "SMS gateways" were a thing, there was an option to choose from 3 types of messages, - standard, "message on screen" and one more. I think the "message on screen" would be the priority message. I remember I tried it and it worked. Later on the options to choose the message type disappeared. These gateways were actually operated by the respective network providers (and allowed you to send messages to those providers only) - let me know if such a thing existed in other part of the world.

[@krzbrew]

As a side note, both phones are based on Qualcomm's SoCs and have the same underlying system from Qualcomm. Manufacturers had a say in some security restrictions and UI. And the carrier had its say in distribution system, specific features and UI. Despite being a CDMA carrier, Sprint did not choose Qualcomm's BREW distribution system with native BREW apps, but decided to go with the rest of the world and used Java2ME. So this probably migrated to Disney Mobile. I wonder if you can side-load BREW or J2me apps, or it is completely locked in this regard. The Samsung phone featured here had a Sprint counterpart with Sprint UI - Samsung SPH-M300.

[@thischannelisforcommenting5680]

Brew... Zeebo?

[@jaimelopez2503]

@@thischannelisforcommenting5680 yes, the zeebo was also based on BREW

[@blakegriplingph]

I am quite surprised that some CDMA carriers actually used Java ME instead of the usual BREW. I guess that might have been a little more cost-effective for them.

[@ILoveWomen]

I was going to say, as an European, I can see the Samsung OS under all the Disney stuff. It's genuinely just the Samsung Java based OS reskinned, and with a different launcher (which was a possibility of carriers doing, like how Orange would have the same home screen on every phone on their network)

[@lumpython5351]

@@blakegriplingph China Telecom is the biggest CDMA carrier in the world, and China Telecom choose J2ME.

[@donotatme]

Having had a bunch of Samsung phone users in the family back then, those ringtones bring back memories. Especially ring 1 which my dad used because he never bothered to change it lol

[@sharonbraselton4302]

this ohine samßung a 500 chef ohiñe mideràgé age

[@allentoyokawa9068]

samjunk

[@donotatme]

@@allentoyokawa9068 Took a while but now I got everyone off of Trashsung and onto stock android devices

[@DSYankeesFan]

ESPN also had their own flip phone back in the day.

[@ardcollectsphones]

my friend has that, its quite rare

[@alextoolstudio]

Oooooh there better be a video of it

[@ardcollectsphones]

@@alextoolstudio there is, his channel is called lightness collector

[@ardcollectsphones]

also the phone is called sanyo mvp

[@kbhasi]

(10:02) I was under the impression that they would've charged for alerts and charged a little less than they did for text messages, but to be fair, it was 2004. (17:20) That looked to me like the same font that was used as part of the channel identity package Disney Channel had at the time!

[@eggbreakerdotexe]

Those last 2 themes on the Samsung phone scream "2000s Disney Channel" to me. Which makes sense considering Disney Channel in the 2000s and Disney Mobile had a similar target audience.

[@LandonEmma]

That menu reminds me so much of the DGamer art style, it's just so cartoony and wacky, I love it! The early 2000s was when Disney was amazing, now they suck.

[@cydragon2.099]

even before then they were better

[@LandonEmma]

@@cydragon2.099 FR

[@samanthataylor8606]

I agree i miss the old dinsey

[@ItsYaGirlAvacado]

Oh my god, I thought I was the only person left on the planet that remembered DGamer! So glad to see someone else experienced something I used to find so cool. 💕

[@LandonEmma]

@@ItsYaGirlAvacado My first experience with DGamer was many years ago after is shut down, but I always wanted to see what it could do if it was still up.

[@jonathanthegreat2008]

Yes! Michael! Make a collaboration with Defunctland?

[@psychorabbitt]

God... I had pretty much that exact same flip phone up until about 2010. I can't remember the brand, but it was on Virgin Mobile (which was also a Spring MVNO back then).

[@googaagoogaa12345678]

Was Spring anything like Sprint?

[@tejasraman6913]

@@googaagoogaa12345678don’t be so literal, it was a mistype

[@spongiedev]

@@tejasraman6913why so aggro?

[@kraboid]

@@spongiedev are you even old enough to be on youtube lol?

[@spongiedev]

@@kraboid mf did you even look at the post date for my videos bc if you did, you will see that I have grown up.

[@memoryhunter2084]

Hello MJD, thanks for the vid, loved it! I would like to make a suggestion to bring attention to old Japanese phones which ran the i-mode service and their need of preservation. Some of them do come with amazing preloaded games, but dumping them is still an on going process. It'd be great to raise awareness on this and I think it's a lovely video idea! Cheers!

[@ihockey0117]

I remember my sister had one of those we lived in Michigan I remember her always playing Disney songs or little shows or something like that idk it’s been so long. But I’m excited to watch the rest of this video so I can get more of the memories to rush in😂. Thank you for the video and nostalgia

[@RedFlameFox]

I found a Disney Princess TV in a flea market here in Italy.

[@swaqhetti]

Follow the leader lmao blasting korn through the Disney phone

[@JustAPersonWhoComments]

Using Disney mobile phones in the US must have been like having a personal Disney nanny

[@amora8152]

I had a Disney phone I got for Christmas one year... It wasn't a foldable, and it was a Nokia. idk if it was a local phone or smt, but I remember it was well advertised and all. would love to find it one day. loved the video.

[@michaeljones3687]

Ring 1 on the Samsung gave me some nostalgia. Ring 1 is also known as the Samsung Tune! It was my favorite text notification sound. :D

[@thefacelessman6737]

“And speaking of restrictions… RAID SH-“

[@Mopsamaxwell]

Wow! It's a Small World after all!

[@megamanfan3]

These types of cell phones still bring back vivid memories.

[@chriscarpenter6889]

i dont know if it was disney mobile, but my family had family locator as well on our flip phones. Only time we ever ended up using it was when it was left somewhere- i think it was a furniture store. Anyways, the thing was so accurate that we had actually found it, but the thing was, someone had stolen it and had deleted half of the contacts on the phone by the time we got it back from them.

[@drucewayne]

The amount of Disney in this video almost requires a license.

[@Dslite45]

This one gave me flashbacks to the old Cingular phone I had as a kid in '04 or '05

[@elfedorausado]

That Samsung clamshell phone is gorgeous…. Boy, do I miss using flip phones

[@AlejandroRodolfoMendez]

There are new flip phones that use 3g, with quite good functions that you would desire pre iPhone, quite cheap and useful for example for elderly.

[@elfedorausado]

@@AlejandroRodolfoMendez I know, but 3G is not viable where I live. And despite loving flip phones, I know it’s nostalgia speaking, 😂 though if there were one that could go 4G, and was not built like crap, I might go for one as a “calls only” device

[@AlejandroRodolfoMendez]

@@elfedorausado for what I know those use any celular carrier chip since modern ones have adapted to basically you cut off the size for modern ones and without cutting works too but depend on the carrier, even if prepaid or not still works, sadly not for the web.

[@ShippoHsu]

Lmao really liked the defunctland call out

[@mattwolf7698]

A phone for helicopter parents. Well okay if a kid was below highschool age I could understand some of these (seriously what is up with the picture one though?) I feel sorry for any teens who got stuck with this though.

[@j.w.techchannel]

Yes, more Disney cellphones. This will be another fun video 👍

[@ethanma3533]

I wonder if Nickelodeon has something similar with those phones imagine with Spongebob The Fairly oddparents Icarly or Zoey 101

[@jo100]

I Remember those Disney Phones from the Era of 2004 to 2008

[@TheSUPERWIND2023]

Ironically, these types of phones are making a huge comeback. Dumb phones ftw

[@BilisNegra]

HUGE??? Are you sure?

[@TheSUPERWIND2023]

​​@@BilisNegrahe flip phone market grew 5% 2022-2023 so I suppose so.

[@AlejandroRodolfoMendez]

Lots of people who doesn't want to be connected but still get calls, old people that can't use tactile screens, smb with employes and people who love the flip part. It's easy to program the lid for auto answer calls.

[@acupuncturekid]

Are you able to do the ESPN cell phone system? Thank you!

[@pc6alek688]

The ring 1 on samsung was origanaly called samsung tune 🔥🔥

[@Fuuntag]

Gotta hand it to Disney this goes above the usual crappy jpeg, a few mp3s & can of paint used launch branded products.

[@edgarnello9165]

Its nice to hear that joe landed safely 😌😌😌

[@ChromifyX]

It's good to see MJD uploads every video, It's very cozy.

[@iblaci307]

15:05 those are samsung ringtones! i instantly recognised ring 1 lol

[@iblaci307]

oh wait you realized at 16:19

[@elizabethsmith3374]

This should come back since parents are giving kids phones way way too soon now days and this would be a good option

[@nukamolly]

my parents got our family these when i was in middle school and i can confirm we almost exclusively used family alert to text each other

[@georgeh6856]

I assume that kids could still take incoming calls from some creepy guy they met on the Internet. Hopefully, the GPS tracking would allow the police to find the kids before they were harmed or killed.

[@LightnessCollector_official]

Hi! I know this comment may not related to this video but, have you heard about ESPN mobile? It's a sprint mvno that is for "sports fans" but that carrier turned to be failure like disney mobile. They've only made 2 phones, the Sanyo MVP and Samsung Ace, I have the Sanyo MVP and despite to be failure, I honestly love it as for my collection along with my other phones. Anyways, you might should try making a video about ESPN Mobile

[@opalpersonal]

thank god this never caught on, Disney already has a big enough footprint in everything else...

[@HighIQCayden]

"Speaking of restrictions, RAID SHAD- Just kidding" That made me die 🤣

[@alesm2389]

OMG!! Never thought that 16 years ago, Disney was a partner of phone brands and made those!

[@Alfenium]

8:31 That was smooth.

[@stpworld]

I actualy used them and Japan got one disney mobile in Japan in 4k it got one last revival in 2015 then it died off

[@medusesquash795]

NOSTALGIC MOMENT! The Ring 1 is the my energy since i'm 12 (Samsung Tune)

[@UandStudio9C89]

i wish disney mobile as a mobile virtual network operator will come back by t-moblie in the usa or by ee in the uk

[@deathextreme9]

"...the message would open up and you would have to Roman Reigns it before you could use the phone" I am a table

[@ExploringNew1]

8:32 you got me 😂😂😂

[@Disneyfan95]

There was also a LG model

[@dayoldbread1696]

I still have mine surprisingly but it's the steamboat willie edition one

[@aguasemgas]

8:30 I was thought i was going crazy, you got me good lmao

[@kenthuang436]

Cell phones: the one area of media and communication that Disney couldn’t take over....

[@NickSneaky]

Hey Matt i have an ideea for you, would there be a way to connect the static electricity of your fingers to headphones? Like connecting headphones into your fingers to see what they sound like.

[@jeiku5041]

So a parent can find their kid easily, but if the kid wants to know where the parents are, that's out of the question?

[@TankTheArtist777]

Yeah very strange

[@ilvpowerrangers]

Well with everything that's been happening at Disney it's a good thing this never got off the ground. Can you imagine what kind of evil it'd be used for right now?

[@Its_Issac.]

get all of them

[@krzbrew]

I would assume the theme is just the menu pictures.

[@B01G3n1us]

I definitely thought penny lane wouldve had something to do with The Proud Family lol. But I find nice that the text kinda had that Disney channel font

[@Lalalalalaala1991]

At 6:08 it says the right Samsung has Bluetooth! I wonder if AirPods would connect up?

[@foxdavani4091]

I can just imagine having an emergency and having only a few moments to dial 911….and first i have to answer a message from mom before being able to use the phone. Sounds like a stupid idea.

[@maccamachine]

This type of stuff is always interesting

[@STaffron]

Wow. Feels like I am in the old 90s years of tech when I saw the phones.

[@PhirePhlame]

I wonder what would've happened if you stuck a regular old Sprint SIM into one of those?

[@FantomLightning]

Nothing. Not only are these phones CDMA only (no SIM) but the Sprint network both CDMA and LTE had been shutdown by T-Mobile by the time this video was created.

[@smyry]

Speaking of phones I’d love to see you get ahold of an ESPN phone. Those things were promising but didn’t live to anything.

[@TenshiTheAngel]

Is no one going to mention that Mickey on the box is doing the mr beast pose?

[@tagrauyoutube]

This video feels hyperspecifically all my interests combined 😅

[@WinXP_SP1]

Can't complain about free texts.

[@LHYChinese]

In 2016, Disney will also launched their Smartphone for the Philippines with their local provider, Globe.

[@giuseppegamer4090]

The Disney Samsung it’s an SPH-M300 Most units had sprint instead of Disney mobile

[@kaitlyn__L]

Man, I feel like they should take away the location option entirely in Kids Mode _or!_ let parents opt-in so their kids can see their parents' phones. That would provide some peace of mind for the child in return, and possibly help both parties to locate each other if they got lost in a crowded space.

[@FatherMcKenzie66]

stopid: DUDE HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW IPHONE 47??? IT HAS 94 CAMS my honest reaction:

[@samsungfun2]

I love the original Disney cell phone I like the smart phones and flip phone

[@yaelbunny2.0]

The raid shadow legends bit got me

[@lancerstride4264]

Could old devices like these phones even work on a modern network? Or is it at least theoretically possible?

[@FarmerBeavis]

I'd reckon you would be able to use basic phone and text message functions. None of the Disney helo-parent tracking, alert system etc tho

[@gargadon]

No, because they used CDMA technology, and the last CDMA network shut down was from Verizon last year.

[@ilmansalt]

Mickey be doing the mr beast pose 😂😂😂😂

[@lorenzo.delbello]

Xiaomi just launched a new Disney 100 smartphone!

[@LostVibes77]

I had one of these as my first phone they quit the service a few months later

[@GroupCaptSlow]

Disney should bring back the service but not put out new phones. You said this was for children but I’m pretty sure I know several cringey Disney adults who would gladly get a phone from 2007 just to say they have Disney mobile

[@sobu_hasy]

Disney Mobile was also in Italy, not only in the US and Japan. Can you please make a review for the LG U370, which was the Disney phone in Italy?

[@justinreid2947]

These Disney phones were *clearly* aimed at control freak helicopter parents with trust issues, because while I get sane parental controls like spending allowance limits and restricting access to certain websites, the amount of downright Orwellian BS on these phones is just ridiculous. Really, a limit on how many pictures you're allowed to take on your own device? That's like something North Korea would do. But then again this is Disney were talking about so blending together parental surveillance stalker devices with kitschy animated novelty is par for the course for them. The funny thing is that I get Disney+ for free through my mobile plan. I guess nothing really changes after all lol.

[@user-lt2rw5nr9s]

I wonder how common that is. My family has Disney+ through our carrier as well.

[@scout8145]

I definitely see the harm from controlling parents using these systems, but I imagine Disney was also aiming for parents who were unfamiliar with then-rapidly -changing cell phone technology. If you don’t really understand what your kid could do with a cell phone, you might hesitate to let them have one, until a brand you know like Disney comes along with something like this. But unfortunately, it seems like the combination of helicopter parents and mildly technophobic parents turned out to be too small of a market for these, lol

[@roxassora2706]

​@@scout8145Agreed. Those modes can be abused by crazy parents

[@THEOxxx197]

“Where you could get into the more uh…restrictive stuff. Oh that doesn’t sounds great at all “ BAHAHAHA

[@speakersspotemgottem]

These are the exact same as my first two phones We had many Pantech ones though mine was branded Hyundai The Samsung is really an M300

[@GoobNoob]

145k views 2 months ago. Never heard about this america edition

[@alextoolstudio]

I want that disney mobile ringtone

[@Templarfreak]

to a certain degree, i can understand these features. but, wow. uhm. all i can really say is: interesting how these are the same limitations their parents would probably have in the nursing home lmao

[@peepeeisland49]

What ringtones do they have ?

[@Cookie1stOffical]

I need to know!!!

[@nurielkader3555]

Good old days 😊

[@ayeeyee9634]

As a current teen I would not be caught within the same area code as a Mickey Mouse phone The jokes would not end I guess it’s a 2000’s thing

[@bread64]

Do you think sora from Kingdom hearts had one of these?

[@GabeTheW]

6:41 disney took inspiration from blackberry

[@AnonyDave]

This is not the greatest phone in the world, whoa, it's just a tribute

[@Thoughtlesskyle]

the Samsung DMS-105 and 110 are just rebranded Sprint/Samsung m300 devices

[@FuishyWave]

What's odd is that the DM-105/100/M305 use a Qualcomm MSM6100 SoC with CMX 4.1 synthesizer and no EV-DO support while the M300 use an MSM6050 SoC with CMX 3.0 synthesizer.

[@imsocoolthough]

Was very surprised to see “American Edition” in the title. But also, Disney’s money hungry. So now, I’m not too shocked they sold these phones in the US.

[@Goobyster]

why are you so surprised lol thats just business you little dummy

[@augustleded]

the fake sponsorship had me dying