The Experimental Phones of the 2000s...

[@katamari_]

why of all things did you make that the thumbnail

[@bjiru_]

thought it looked hard

[@theshapeshifted]

@@bjiru_ real, honestly

[@matticolo]

I hadn’t noticed 💀

[@bumb.wingman]

@@bjiru_search up sonic x black knuckles fat gay seggs

[@gododoof]

It's beautiful

[@f4micom]

i miss when phones all looked different and everyone could actually pick something that it their vibe and use case

[@Geeler]

So much this

[@thesecondotto]

holy shit f4mi!!

[@bjiru_]

4real, was going to go more into the self expression and the "personal"-ness this variety in phones allowed for, but didn't end up working it in

[@1secondarysmile]

hai f4mi :)

[@matticolo]

F4mi!! =D

[@99JayTaz99]

The 2000s to like 2013 felt so different man, like everybody just customized themselves much more, nowadays there's just a sanitized aura everywhere

[@SaishsJahshsb-ou9nl]

I agree I am a 90s kid

[@peachesandcream22]

Idk where you lived, I lived in strict household so I had boring ugly ass cellphones without any customization.

[@Ave_Satana666]

I just miss the goth girls from the post tumblr times. Before the ugly velma girls ol ugly librarian head ah girls went around telling all the girls to act like complete cancer.

[@Ave_Satana666]

Shits so cringy when i see some blue haired dachshund looking ah girl talking about the patriarchy like you have to be a wife to have a opinion fr fr no one wants them thats why they got such a big issue lmao. Old maid fr.

[@Ave_Satana666]

Now we got a new wave who legit dress up to try an look like men because they cant cut it as a woman. An they still spout the same anti man bs like if we are so bad why you trying to be us? Watch theirs gonna be like 4 of them who will emplore facist double speak if they come across my stuff they dont even try an debate my facts they just try an discredit my character because im right. Lmao.

[@elsakristina2689]

I still remember being nine years old and watching teenage girls text their boyfriends on their BlackBerry phones, lol. I thought teenagers were so cool as a kid.

[@CodyCockyote7046]

I thought the same too bro. But when I turned like 12/13 I started realizing phones and social media was getting lame af in the mid 2010s. It was new and exciting in the 2000s. But in the 2010s the BRAINROT started consuming us and nowadays teens are so lost all "different subcultures" look the same. Metal,skate,emo,punk,etc. It all feels the same now.

[@krisstopher8259]

people in spy movies always had stuff like that, even 007 i think

[@Twiddle_things]

Me too. I thought my aunt was the coolest ever and hoped that when I was a teen I'd be like her and what I saw on TV. There weren't any parties, there wasn't any band for me to join, there wasn't anymore cool emo scene stuff, there wasn't any edge, there weren't any cool boyfrends, there weren't any nights out, no cool videogames, just lamenting how lame the 2010s and 2020s are.

[@NostraBloom]

i texted my high school crush on facebook on my blackberry that i got from my sister 😭😭 i feel SO OLD RN

[@fernandosalazardeza3211]

I speak Spanish (I'm from South America) and it's true I saw them as superior with those cell phones, now I'm more than one of those, I'm an adult and I'm not superior☹️ XD 😂😂

[@Ju_Johnny_]

as a millenial, this phones were always impressing me as a kid, so I started collected them. Now, 20 years later, I have more than 500 phones and I love the variety of the old models. Sometimes I take them of the shelf and just hold them and it feels so unreal. Yeah, it's strange, but it's okay

[@AnonymousAnarchist2]

Its not any stranger then collecting stamps. Heck I'd say its less strange then collecting stamps.

[@kassiep]

Yano you can hook up regular aa batteries to them old phones and make them work again (well untill the aa batteries die) it's really cool!!!

[@wildnis5219]

Maybe show them of somewhere in the Future - i left a sub for this occasion. Dosnt need tob long clips tho - just joy and show about old models.

[@mike4719]

I had a phone back then where the back cover was see through plastic and it came with a template to cut stuff out of magazines to effectively create your own design by placing the cutout on the inside of the back case. Any ideas what the name of the phone was?

[@varzainbeci]

​@@mike4719Nokia 3200

[@Cakalank]

N-Gage was the "certified Rich Kids" phones when i was in school. When you answer a call holding tacos on your ear, you put the poor kids holding tears.

[@mfandiramadhan6229]

haha rill

[@bluekewne]

My school was all about the Sidekick. No one really wanted a N-Gage; it sucked as a mobile phone & it sucked as a gaming handheld.

[@Cakalank]

@@bluekewne what is Sidekick? in Indonesia back then literally everyone uses Nokia. it was Nokia monopoly with a few motorolas and sony. not even modern day Iphones are on the same level of monopoly as Nokia back then.

[@Alex06CoSonic]

N-Gage and Sidekick...We had both at my place. I never thought we were that rich as a family even back then.

[@Garinovitch]

I had an N-Gage, wasn't rich at all just I had a really amazing mom that wanted to surprise me. Although, we could never get in service, I just played Tomb Raider on it... And other people didn't react with tears of envy, it was more... "What the fuck is that thing?" lol

[@themanofteeth]

i remember wanting a phone with a slide out keyboard so bad

[@Hexagonian]

i still do but they are either bricked or their specs are godawful, running a version of android from 5 years ago for some reason

[@randomtinypotatocried]

I still miss mine

[@Metzli]

I had one! It was so cool! But its screen broke kinda early so I feel like I didn't play a lot with it :(

[@aidangreyskies]

I had a couple of them~ one had a keypad and setup similar to a blackberry and I had a purple cheetah print case on it. I miss it so much~ 😭 I loved when people would ask to use my phone and I'd slide it up all dramatically 😅

[@felicityc]

@@Hexagonian yep, this. I love physical keyboards and I hate typing on touch screens. Back in 2010-2011 they rolled out more full keyboard phones and I had one for a while until I ended up getting a nicer newer touch screen phone... and those touch screens were absolutely terrible. later on they got better of course, but gosh. it was really bad for a bit. now I just avoid using my phone as much as possible... at this very moment I am even using google voice to call the county x3

[@Tanukikenken]

Didn't know you were so good at CGI. I've never seen a realistic phone like that floating in the background

[@Someone69769]

its a wire that holds the phone, not cg

[@Sapphire200]

@@Someone69769r/woosh

[@michaelangeloabarreto4588]

​@@Someone69769 nah dog. Definitely CGI

[@ShyGuyGuyGuyGuyGuyGuyGuyGuyGuy]

​@@Someone69769 nah it's cgi 100%

[@Tanukikenken]

@@Someone69769 I'm a marvel fan, I know when something it's CGI

[@Kodeb8]

The 2000s sometimes feels like a fever dream.

[@ChickenNugget-ev8zd]

Especially if you were born in the mid 2000s

[@williamspell5692]

Well, it literally was the turn of the millenium.

[@CessBee123]

I was born in 2002 so literally everything in the 2000s is like a weird multicoloured haze lol

[@Mountainshark]

By 2009, things started to feel the same as now. I was 10 in 2000 and 20 by 2009.

[@MashaRistova]

As someone who was a teenager in the early 2000’s, present day feels way more like a fever dream. You have people taking videos of themselves all day long, looking at themselves in their selfie cam all day long, and getting so much filler that the “beauty standard” is now to look like an alien. I promise in ten years you will look back on the 2020’s with horror.

[@robertozamcu3533]

2:55 THE WAY IT SLOWLY STARTS FLYING HELPPP

[@vapor4]

That tickled me pink

[@DingleMcHoppernoodle]

IM CRYING 😭💀

[@galaxxy_step]

Chiyo azumanga daioh moment

[@cursedbeans5560]

Honestly,great script,editing,jokes and you’re really expressive about the subject. 10/10 subbed

[@seanguy9720]

Nothing like opening up KZbin trying to decompress after work, and getting greeted with Sonic and Rainbow Dash swapping spit. Thanks man

[@christopherbrown7230]

I member

[@ButtaDawg6969]

Wtf is that thumbnail

[@MauseDays]

@@ButtaDawg6969 that thumbnail is the 2000s condenced into one picture ahahah

[@yeoungmoh]

😂😂That was wat also made me click

[@ButtaDawg6969]

@@yeoungmoh successful click bait

[@christopherbrown7230]

Kids these days will never know the joys of learning to text quickly and accurately on a numpad

[@1antoinette]

And without even looking at the phone itself

[@junek8700]

T9

[@anthonyjulson8840]

I could never get t9.

[@Ontonton-mm6te]

I have a nokia 1112 and yeah, texting quickly in a numpad is fun

[@mariellem7820]

It was so easy to text your friends during school when you didn't need to look at your phone while typing

[@STREETFOODJOURNEY5]

I really miss these weird phones back in the day, but unfortunately I was poor and couldn't afford to buy

[@lilartsy8369]

Real

[@Brah027]

Same, being poor saved me a lot of money on tech that is now painfully outdated 😂

[@Spidyy]

Deserves a mention of the Samsung SPH-N270, the telephone from The Matrix. Which was designed to feel like you're reloading a pistol when you close it. Good video, felt very nostalgic. 😊

[@solarstevie]

15:42 "expand dong" surprised me so much, I had to rewind and make sure I wasn't making it up in my head.

[@daveg.]

I was the perfect age to experience the phones of the early 2000s. Old enough to dream of having one, but not old enough to actually be able to own one and realize how bad they were.

[@elisehalflight]

Mood, early touchscreens sucked ass

[@OldObscureUnpopularGames]

@@elisehalflightI had one touch screen/sliding keyboard phone that would unlock itself in my pocket all the time. The touch screens were sensitive to any sort of touch, it was awful 😭

[@ren.pfa.99]

​@Kasia3127 interesting. My first phone was a Sony Ericson and I had the exact opposite problem. You needed force to press the screen

[@OldObscureUnpopularGames]

@@ren.pfa.99 It required force rather than actual skin contact but somehow would slide to unlock itself in my pocket during class, which is when I was barely moving. I have no idea why it did it so consistently, but no other phone was that bad lol

[@creditcrazy597]

Dude I'm born to late to see flip phones anywhere and here I am wishing I had one of these

[@Johnyknowhow]

you absolute trickster... the suspended phone by the wire at 2:00 I had simply tuned out as "aha... bjiru has superimposed a gif of a rotating GW520 - how awesome" until you GRABBED IT you will rue the day mr schemes

[@Candyrock15]

You're so silly

[@Johnyknowhow]

@@Candyrock15 thanks i try

[@gocrucial]

that thing exactly made me inmediately like the video

[@sandrin0]

The through-line between all these weird, extremely 2000s flavoured phones I think is a lack of optimization. Phones now do everything we could possibly want them to do, and so we have come to expect this of them, and so they need to be able to maintain this performance, and the "glowing rectangle" paradigm is probably the best way to do so. The incredible number of completing constraints placed on modern phone design have resulted in what is probably the optimal shape for a "do everything" device whereas before, these devices just needed to perform the basic actions of a phone: calling, and then eventually texting. Something that only needs to be able to do these basic things can take an absolutely wild number of different forms, and so optimization becomes far less necessary or even desirable. I don't think I'd want to give my glowing rectangle up for something shaped like a coffee crisp, or a makeup thingy, or even a star trek communicator, but I truly do miss that feeling of variety

[@meeniemi]

I had the galaxy beam phone back in 2011. It was a whole vibe. Literally watched all my shows on the walls, cupboards, and floors of my house 😂

[@khaaaaaaaaan4580]

Blackberry was the pinnacle design, having a full physical qwerty keyboard and touch screen with trackball functionality was amazing.

[@Don-h4d]

Nah they were awful but successful for lack of anything better. The user experience was a nightmare, the apps were so basic and useless. BB was not more than a trend, thankfully.

[@SilverSpoon_]

yeah, it's essential. I bought a Key2, the last one, it's decent and it's trustworthly, now there's Unihertz's Titan that works well on LineageOS or any alternative that are worth considering, dunno bout reliability; since it's chinese, BUT it's intresting.

[@SilverSpoon_]

@@Don-h4d dunno man, i still have a Q10 that works as a secondary phone, mostly for IRC and firefox as a default browser. Ah and WINAMP for the webradios. it literally spends its comfy retirement as a streaming device hooked to my hifi.

[@sagewitts917]

Agreed

[@sagewitts917]

The physical buttons allowed for an incomparable level of accuracy.

[@brevin630]

This is the type of channel i like. Talking about obsucre early 2000s technology trends that i vaguely remember from my childhood. Subbed

[@aabhasharma8225]

My husband and I were teenagers when the first cellphone experimental designs were coming out. He was so obsessed with all the cool new designs and we would try them all out and delight in all the engineering as well as the bright Color’s and borderline kitschy designs. Touch screens ruined the fun, bring back buttons! Also the tiny phones were so dainty and fit into my tiny purse. They came in jelly glitter finishes…miss those cool shapes too.

[@kamiiu]

8:56 why is this more advanced than actual phones now in days. id love a clear phone.

[@thefelipevaldes]

It's not more advanced, it's just different, but very limited, like a monochromatic screen.

[@youravghuman5231]

​@@thefelipevaldesit is that advanced. look now we have transparent tv that reviewed by linus

[@YungAlru]

​@@thefelipevaldeshow tf

[@approachingetterath9959]

this is exactly why i love having grown up in the 2000s and having that tail of the 90s: tech was crazy. being there as it rapidly evolved, seeing all these wonderfully weird gadgets and experimental forms come and go. i think the coolest experimental phones we have right now are those going back to folding, but while maintaining a touchscreen. so fascinating.

[@summernightfalls]

I had a Samsung flip phone through Verizon that had a camera in the middle of the hinge that you could rotate to face you and turn outwards to take pictures. Samsung did selfies way before they were called that. It was my favorite

[@compassrose1466]

That’s such a rad concept omg

[@Lacey_Ann]

My mom had that phone (but i think it was LG), &I was obsessed with taking pictures with it. And I had another phone that was Virgin Mobil and when the flip phone was closed you could use the camera one the front and see yourself on the screen. All super awful quality but still, I remember taking selfies way before iphones lol

[@pepperedwithlegacy]

I had that same phone! But I went into the ocean with it in my pocket after having it for like 3 months and it basically became a shitty salt crystal 🥲

[@KraXoom]

I’m glad I was a teen back then and got to experience some of these phones. It was an unusual time of experimentation but also a beautiful time we will never see again.

[@marsgannon4891]

I'm a simple woman, I see a video about the golden age of phones, I click on it. I'm kind of obsessed with this era of phones and there isn't a day that goes by that I am not devastated by the shutdown of 2g and 3g networks in the US. What I wouldn't give for a slider phone or unique flip phone that could work on US networks! I used a Kyocera 902kc for a while and I absolutely loved that thing so much, but the lack of Google maps made life a little too difficult for me as I rely heavily on real time traffic info in my area. I'd LOVE so much if there was more diversity in phones in the US. Even just something simple like the Galaxy folder 2, an android flip phone with a touchscreen, would be a dream for me. I hope one day that phone companies start to see that there is absolutely a US market for "unique" devices outside of the smartphone standard model.

[@bjiru_]

Ah, I never even thought about how you just cant use older phones now with the lack of infrastructure, that is so sad, I was also looking at the Galaxy Folder, can it not be used in North America or something?

[@Alex06CoSonic]

8:21 That's quite literally the phones they have in Totally Spies, LOL. The design is even period-accurate (early 2000s, when the cartoon aired). Here I was thinking it was impossible back then.

[@thesnesgeek]

Sadly you couldn’t get to Whoop and give Jerry a blueberry muffin.

[@Hamboarding]

0:33 „And ever since then, some form of this has been in our pocket ever since then.“

[@mind-of-neo]

I know these were always meant as experiments, but i want to always live in an era where you can get phones, computers, etc. In any shape and style imaginable.

[@anicetune]

I owned the N-Gage. I was so incredibly proud of that device, until it stopped working literally 1 month after I got it. I returned it to the shop and they wouldn't do anything. I also got the N95, which to this day was the most beautiful phone I ever owned. I dropped that down the toilet 2 weeks after buying it and that never worked again. I then got the 6600 which I still have in my draw today - and it works brilliantly. Toughest phone ever! Forget the 3310. The most comfortable phone I ever owned though was the Sony Ericsson K800i (James Bond edition). It was beautiful and so cosy, like an extension of my arm. Pressing those buttons felt wonderful. I used to just lay on the carpet when I was younger admiring its curvy design and smooth texture. Even today, I miss that phone.

[@bjiru_]

aw man, sorry to hear about your other phones 😭 I can relate, laying on the carpet just admiring a phone or device you got, that takes me back man...

[@av_oid]

No the N95 was awful, I had one. If you held it wrong it would turn off - the battery locking mechanism was dodgy. And the keyboard was useless. I quickly went to a Sony K850i and later a HTC Desire before going to the first “good” iPhone - the iPhone 4. The iPhones before the 4 were half baked IMHO.

[@GoosterHiista]

I had the Nokia E70. Probably my all time favorite one of the classic type ones along with the 8210 which was absolutely tiny. I also had the 3300 which looked very much like an N-Gage and could play music and had radio, which was very awesome at the time. I remember listening to a rock station before sleep with my crappy headphones and waiting for a specific song so I could record it for later. Apparently they can go for over a 100$ second hand these days, I wonder if it's still at my parents house...

[@d3drummerboy]

Me too it was a fairly forgettable and flawed piece of tech i got mine around 4th or 5th grade between the end of the gba era and just before i got the psp it was a strange & transitional time for tech

[@akse]

@@av_oid The N95 had a very good camera though. I do remember my dads one had a tape on the battery cover too :) It was so good camera when I was looking for a new replacement for my dad it was difficult to find one with comperable camera. Eventually he got the 920 Lumia from my big brother which also had a very good camera.

[@Floofie_boi]

I got to say I clicked because of the thumbnail, and I stayed for the content. your clickbait worked and the content was enjoyable. thank you.

[@bjiru_]

The rainbow dash x sonic always gets em’ Also thank you so much :3

[@ButtaDawg6969]

I mean it worked on me too...

[@Angelica_04]

“Im very good at crossy road.” *dies* 😂

[@fnamelname8906]

The 2000s were just such a cooler time. The original Fast And Furious coupled with Need For Speed or Midnight Club, nu-metal music, skateboarding being massive, and flip phones. Frutiger Aero and I, Robot was the future we should have had, not the pure, tesla car filled dystopia we currently live in.

[@SwedePotato314]

I graduated high school in 2005. I had like half of these phones lol. Around that time that was also super popular was the Boost mobile bleep bleep “where you at?” 2 way radio phone phase. My favorite phone was my blackberry storm or my LG chocolate. There were a few but there was NO better feeling than texting away on one of those and then calling someone and having that tactile feedback of hanging up on a call with the click, slide or flip of the phone. It was genuinely the best. I was 13 on New Years 2000 and around this time I think everyone got into the futuristic vibe. Like we thought by the year 2000 we’d have flying cars but we didn’t so everything was just made to look more futuristic through stuff like this.

[@GammaBeta656]

The thing that blew me away the most in this video wasnt the phones, it was the fact that the LG Breeze in the background wasnt a 3D model spinning for shits and giggles and was, in fact, physically there.

[@David-lt6lt]

Going to the phone store used to be such a fun adventure when younger. So many choices and so many new ideas you never knew what you were going to see once you had your current phone for 2 years and got to get an upgrade.

[@zahemi914]

Totally agree.....used to spend hours just to admire the variety designs they had back then

[@GavinAstraWolf]

5:32 Doppio when he's getting call from the boss

[@bjiru_]

Hold on I gotta look his up

[@bjiru_]

Hahahah

[@jec_ecart]

Back then innovation was actually real.

[@notryan8410]

ah when phones actually had a personality of their own, i remember fondly the time i received my hand me down Nokia N95 8GB for my 10th birthday back in the day that i used all the way to 2012. good memories.

[@ch4lk250]

man you have such a friendly and fun way of being, it really makes the subjects you talk about entertaining to watch. instant sub

[@albtckl]

I feel kind of old here (43) so cell phones werent really a thing until after my freshman year of college, but I remember my first one was one of those Nokia bricks and i thought it was absolutely mind blowing lol. I guess i laid dormant for most of the 2000s though because i dont remember any of these. i transitioned straight from the Nokia to a Samsung Galaxy in probably 2016? That brick lasted forever.

[@bjiru_]

Oh my goodness to see a cell phone when it first became a thing must've been such a sight to behold I cannot imagine. Not everybody remembers these days of phones also, I'm just a nerd for tech ;P *also Your not old!! I feel like the internet and in life there is a notion a lot of the time that once your 30 your life's over haha, when that's just not the case, you barely even at the half way point, I hope you have such a good rest of it :)

[@doedoewski1939]

​@@bjiru_shut your patronising youthful optimism

[@BadgerOff32]

I'm 42 and I got my first phone when I was at college. I think it was called a Nokia Ringo, and it was one of the first pay-as-you-go phones in England. That thing was horrendous, but it was just amazing to actually have a mobile telephone in my pocket! You couldn't remove the battery OR the sim card, they were both built in! That meant when the battery finally died, the phone would become useless. You couldn't send text messages on it at all, and it literally had no menus on it. I once took it to a phone shop to ask the guy how to access the menus and he said "um break the screen? That's the only way you'll get anything different on here!" If you wanted to change the ringtone you had to hold one of the number keys for a couple of seconds. It had 9 ringtones. That was literally all the functionality it had. It could make and receive calls, and you could change the ringtone. That was it. It was utter crap but I loved it! Still remember it fondly to this day.

[@bkholch8179]

I had a Sony Clie PDA and I felt so cool!!!

[@FarfettilLejl]

@@bjiru_I was born in ‘85 and my first mobile phone was Alcatel one touch easy db. I remember a schoolmate of mine asked me ironically at some point if I was a businessman. I responded: no, why? “Then why do you have a mobile phone?”

[@it_me23]

No Unpacked or keynote event has made me as hype as this video right here. I'm shouting and cheering alone in my living room 😂

[@thepokemontrainer6094]

Man i have so much nostalgia looking at this stuff, i remember back when i was in italy in 2007 when i was like six i saw these things everywhere just lookign at them made my eyes just wide open. Ah the good old times of flip phones and such

[@fatine7290]

I have a feeling you'd LOVE the When Phones Were Fun series by Mr Mobile here on youtube

[@yaddayaddayadda3]

flip phones are having a renaissance and i think eventually were gonna have analog keyboards back in some way or form

[@kundasemkundatam7461]

Lack of real keyboard is the only reason I have to use 6.7" large so-called "phablet" to type as fast as on any Siemens I ever used.

[@Mecánico358]

Another great video, really captures the nostalgia of the 2000s’. I do miss those days of when tech was just customizable to fit your personality, and when you had a cell phone back then showed your status in school, now pretty much most downloaded apps are either a social media app, or rewards app.

[@dmon007]

Random KZbin recommendation that I highly enjoyed. Good job man, keep up the good work! Subbed.

[@CorneliousRR]

Mr. Mobile did this already man, has a whole series on these old phones and it's much better produced and he actually sources the phones to demo them. Appreciate the talk about it, it's a good attempt and a fun topic, but yeah.

[@noveywovey]

dude this is such a good video!!! the editing is so like engaging and omg... the transparent phone my beloved..... i want one so bad

[@sleepywin3436]

the edit is sooooo "poppy" and its so cool hahaha

[@redcoat6698]

Never watched any of your videos before but man, I absolutely adore your editing style. It's so bombastic and fun--one could call it cool even!

[@trooper420wSw]

not often do i put my hand on my mouth when watching a youtube video, seriously, you are the future of editing + the topic was extremely interesting and something i've been thinking about myself great job, man, 10/10 vid

[@rachelcookie321]

I like modern phones, I just got an iPhone 15 which I’m currently setting and I’m really excited but man am I sad I was too young during the 2000s to really appreciate all these phones. I would have had so much fun spending hours upon hours researching different weird phones and deciding which one I wanted to buy. Now the most unique thing about my phone is that it’s pink but you could have really shown off your personality with phones back then. But I just got vague memories of the boring grey flip phones my parents had.

[@suspiciouschicken]

7:20 this badboy looks like it was inspired by the minox spy camra from the 60s and the camera worked exactly the same so it is proof that designs from times gone can be reused and repurposed successfully So you never know in the future we could start seeing early 2000s style phones again

[@rafdaute]

the way you edit your video essays is so whimsical and cool all the lil motion graphics and visuals i love it!

[@noahpiccini9852]

2:21 That was pretty smooth ngl

[@AngelaVonTokyo]

I truly miss the era that they weren’t just screen bricks . We don’t need to simplify everything 😢

[@Don-h4d]

Actual phones' design is not a simplification, it's the design answer to a very complex problem.

[@kyoyameganebereznoff]

I’m OBSESSED with the Siemens Xelibri 6. It’s so Totally Spies. The Nokia 7600 also looks like a Digivice!

[@cora8264]

That was exquisite when the subscribe button lit up exactly as you said the word at 17:25… thought I was seeing things at first 😮

[@aTaryum]

That transitioning era was something else, everyone, and I mean, EVERYONE, was throwing stuff at the wall to see what stuck. I happen to own a device running Windows Mobile called the iMate JASJAR, that thing might as well not have existed because documentation for it is very scarce. Have you even heard of a company called iMate? It's a PDA with phone capabilities, it has front and rear cameras, a stylus and a keyboard, it flips kinda like a Nintendo DS but also the hinge on the screen makes it rotate so that you can use it as if it was a modern phone (it even detects from that hinge the orientation the screen should use, landscape or vertical). Sadly the battery has died a long time ago and replacements are impossible to find. Still, it's a really nifty little thing even if it has to stay plugged to the wall, a lot of thought went into the design but other than being cool it's just another PDA in a sea of Windows Mobile devices. While I miss the experimentation era, at the end of the day it ended as it should have: something stuck on the wall and that thing was the iPhone.

[@MarvinMakesArt]

I HAVE AN IMATE TOO!! IT STILL WORKS

[@aTaryum]

@@MarvinMakesArt ah nice! Might as well ask, does the battery work? If so, do you know where to buy it? Maybe a compatible one

[@MarvinMakesArt]

@@aTaryum mine works. Nope idk where to buy one. Its the original battery

[@Cappyey]

@@MarvinMakesArtjesus, how is that battery still alive?

[@axelm4164]

I think you can rebuild the battery using another that matches the same voltage and current rate of the original.

[@GrantSoundsGood]

Holy ham and eggs!!! i havent seen that iphone concept in years!!!!!! thank you so much for resurfacing all this. keep it up sir!!!

[@matrucious]

Oh no! I was late this time 🥲 Anyway; I feel you keep getting better every time, still! The pacing is so on point, and the editing is way more professional than it should be as a single person making videos :3 Great video as always!

[@bjiru_]

your still plenty early haha, thanks for always watching and saying such nice things, glad I could teach you something, hope your april was swell

[@QueenKunta]

17:18 I had a dual slide-out phone and thought it was the coolest thing. It was a Pantech Duo!

[@Melvito2]

This brought back many memories. When I was in high school my friends and I would sit and look at the cell phones’ newspaper ad and talk about which ones we would buy when we got to college (phones back then were not something everyone had). I remember I wanted a model that came briefly and was sold for being the tiniest phone, because back then the thing was to make them as small as possible, contrary to now. It was a race for gimmicks and aesthetics. Nokia of course was always the best until the more modern phones took over.

[@realpauldano]

bjiru i have a hyperfixation on blackberry this made my day

[@bjiru_]

hell fucking yea, sorry for no blackberry mention, I also love the blackberry, just couldnt find any """CrAzaY" ones

[@realpauldano]

@@bjiru_ personally i think the ‘crazy’ blackberry was the blackberry storm where it was touchscreen but the entire screen pressed down to simulate the click from the keyboard of prior generations ^__^ they were all broken and basically every single one was returned and it’s argued to be the reason they don’t make phone today

[@bjiru_]

@@realpauldano oh my goodness I had no idea that is fucking cool, what an interesting idea

[@realpauldano]

@@bjiru_ hehe or the blackberry bold which had a trackpad on the main button ^__^ sort of like the laptop nipple! many of them were touchscreen, but i prefer navigating with the trackpad

[@PolygonDonut]

oh my god this video was so good, i love all those gizmos and gadgets 😁😁😁

[@FoxerTails]

Lest we forget that during the early 2010s, we kinda got the best of both worlds for smart phones. My first ever cell phone that I could actually call my own and not my parents was a Samsung Replenish. It had a physical keyboard as well as being the typical Android phone of the time with a touchscreen. After that, I also had a Motorola one with a vertical sliding keyboard and then later a Kyocera one with a horizontal sliding keyboard. And again, both with touchscreens and the Android OS of the time.

[@aromanticfranziskavonkarma]

ah yes, the n-gage, short for **reads smudged writing on hand** nicholas gage

[@EleventhKyber]

i really love all these different designs so much!! i had a flip phone growing up and i always liked messing with the sliding feature lmao

[@NijiDash]

Thumbs up and subscribed, especially for that Sonic x Rainbow fanfic haha!

[@haazmat]

I love these videos. Keep being -cool- swell

[@Alex_TR1713]

3:06 the design of android is amazing

[@LYME-Y2K]

Love your channel. The amount of nostalgia you show is everything I use in my life right now LOL. 💯

[@BelleFlower15]

I loved all those weird old phones. I don't miss when they all had different chargers and if you lost yours, you were SOL. 😂 And there would be tents at the fair with just boxes up on boxes of phone cases for every possible model. It was a treasure hunt. We didn't have Amazon yet 😂

[@interrobangings]

17:00 I mean, isn't this basically what they tried doing with curved smartphones anyway?

[@ETORERIGO]

Came for thumbnail, stayed for the history

[@elvysokwl3227]

15:28 Garbage Truck.

[@emradford5173]

This video is pure nostalgia for me, I had so many of these 😂 You’re so right too - Phones now are boring. We had awesome phones in the 2000’s! I miss the innovation, fun, edginess and creativity of phone designs. And I swear our phones were our first intros to fidgeting! Always sliding, flipping, rotating. It was so much fun.

[@unicornkitteh5332]

4:01 imagine my excitement to see MY FAVORITE phone that I had - i freaking loved that thing. I think i still have it somewhere. Also, when i went back to NY 2 years ago for a funeral and stayed at my grandmothers house, she had a large trashbag in the corner of the room i was sleeping in. I opened it and to my surprise was EVERY SINGLE PHONE me and my father ever owned. Man that was such a fun night of nostalgia. I wish they still made interesting & unique phones. Ive had the S9 for 6 years because everything is so bland and boring. Now everything comes with AI. I dont want AI. Im tired of the surveillance and selling my data too. I just wanna go back to the early 2000's 😭😭😭😭

[@TaccRaccoon]

Can we address the thumbnail

[@bjiru_]

oh yeah the vaio in ther? or maybe the moto v70? oh or the nokia 7600? thats it I think, cant think of anything else, nothing else really there that would be in call of any attention I believe to my knowledge

[@nichole6135]

Literally lol'd 😂😂😂😂

[@KenzersCollie]

you clicked on it 🐠

[@nichole6135]

@@KenzersCollie so true 🤣

[@babygravey]

Also 9:49

[@muharremsuz]

9:22 thank me lather

[@TurtleMarcus]

I had the Nokia N-Gage QD, played Tomb Raider, Sonic N, and Tony Hawk. My ringtone, which came pre-installed, was "We Are" by Ana Johnsson from the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack. Hardest phone I ever had.

[@FluffyMuskrat111]

Yo...fellow N-Gage owner. Had fun playing Asphalt and ExplodeArena multiplayer with my schoolmates

[@DXPetti]

I actually had a Nokia 7600. Absolutely horrid to use. Ended up moving to the E61. Love love love this entire video. I miss the creativity of thic technology era. Hell, even early smartphone era was fun while Apple, Microsoft and Google fought for dominance

[@brenotanure3336]

4:49 This is the info my subconscious needed to know for the past 15 years. THANK YOU

[@Ronjayw]

The insane thing is…. I’m born in 2009 and I never got this experience yet I still miss this funky and futuristic types of phone design😞 I hate the effect of normality

[@MuscleCarLover]

They were all brilliant phones...for their time. We no longer have to choose what niche to dedicate ourselves to when choosing a phone. The closest any of us get these days to a Palm Treo is the Samsung S22-S24 Ultra. We're even in the era where budget phones have a good amount of power and storage. Making a new Xelibri for example would basically be like switching to a Lite Phone, though I do miss physical keyboards with individually raised buttons, that was fun to type on

[@rparstar]

This was a really fascinating look at the phones of this era. I’m weirdly nostalgic for this time and I could never figure out why. I watched your video on skins and customization too, and both of those ideas really pieced together well. My first 2 phones were Nokia brick phones where they came with additional covers that you could change out or mix and match, the one had fun designs. And don’t get me started on slider phones, I looooved my LG Banter in high school/university.

[@BangThaBazie]

My first mobile phone was a Siemens SL 75. It had a slide mechanism to open it and it was very small, but so pretty. I still have it, and still great to fidget around with the slide mechanism, very satisfying.

[@jessicayuan9016]

When I was a kid I kinda dreamed of sharing the Windows experience on the phone smoothly like the sci-fi scenes. Now look at what we get. Windows and IOS fighting againt each other in front of us, passive aggressively blaming the customer for not being "loyal" to only one of them so they will together "punish" me with the experience nightmare.

[@joaocolombo9635]

first video im seeing from you, 30 seconds in i was already subscribed and it just kept on getting better, good job man

[@themollymachine]

Bro 2003 was a great year for cell phones when I was 19... So many different types of cell phones and they were all really cool. My girlfriend at that time worked in a cell phone store at that time

[@ewaletty3845]

To this day I ADORE the Motorola PEBL I had. It was basicially a slide and flip phone, where you pull the top half towards you and it would flip open by itself, so smooth!!! Plus it came in funky colors and the feeling of it in your hand was just awesome with an almost velvety exterior haha Thanks for making this amazing video, I will always be amazed at the variety we had back then!

[@Flint404]

For your childhood the defining moment was the iPhone. For mine it was videogames going from 2D to 3D. Great video!

[@LucienVonKreuz]

I really like your style, keep up the good work! I used to work selling cellphones on walmart around 2010, I remember the Samsung Galaxy Beam and also the first Samsung that was "water resistant", there was an Alcatel phone that looked lake a mirror and we had phones with giant numbers for the elderly

[@Jervis-JehanYvesLaurent]

My family have a lot of flip phones, mini keyboard phones and internet phones but all of em are old

[@adamdurbin6895]

I had a sidekick and loved it it's still in a desk drawer at my mom's house. Very cool video and loved your enthusiasm for old tech. Subscribed 👍🏻

[@JoeEmber776]

So glad you mentioned the n-gage, sonicn was actually a port of sonic advanced, and not an original sonic game, but featured a really terrible letterbox feature which would allow you to turn the screen horizontal. There was also the zeebo, not a phone but a console made to play phone games for the brazilian market that totally flopped. There were also so many japanese phones of the time that had their own exclusive java based games with many notable properties such as castlevania, sonic, and tons of jrpgs (many more than the gamecube.) those weren't particularly odd looking for the time to my knowledge but gaming on phones being more advanced than snake was still so surreal for the times

[@gui18bif]

0:26 Except I've had metal in the back, touchscreen in the front for longer than the iFraud existed

[@ghostything]

I had a FlipOut, I got it because it had a full keyboard (BlackBerry hadn't quite caught on, and I couldn't afford an HTC when I was 15). Everyone thought it was super ultra mega cool, however it ran Android 2.1 in LANDSCAPE MODE. Most apps opened sideways. The battery life was abysmal - 10 hours from a full charge, and it got ridiculously hot in use. Also, the hinge was stupidly weak, and even being careful with it, every time you pulled the keyboard out, the connections through it broke and the phone rebooted. After having to return it for being faulty TWICE I replaced it with an Xperia X8. That thing worked.