The first ever mobile phones.

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[@Sleepy-oi3xh]

The way he says "phones" and "head phones" literally just makes my day. I can't be mad or sad or whatever when a guy says Phonies.

[@KookieOCE]

Pa ho-knees

[@peeNUTs.]

Also nano

[@mr.spaceaids5379]

The way people comments how he says phones and head phones made their day, makes my day. I cant be mad or sad or whatever when a guy enjoys a guy says phonies.

[@catalin-constantin4197]

This video brings back memories 👍👍👍👍

[@MistSGM]

Puh ho nies

[@SheKnives]

You forget to mention the third feature. Its an effective self defense weapon! You can do some serious damage with a nugget that big.

[@mihaiciobotaru5134]

Assuming you have the strength to actually throw it at the designated target

[@sandstorm17]

That's a lot of damage! -Phil Swift

[@sandstorm17]

That's a lot of damage! -Phil Swift

[@taimaishu-nao1922]

If you had an aluminum bodied one, you’re damn right it could!

[@mihaiciobotaru5134]

@Ron 133 use it as a javelin

[@nicoh848]

That 30 minutes talk time for 10 HOURS of charge is such a good reminder of the progress in tech.

[@woofle4330]

It's soon gonna be the opposite soon 30 min charge and 10 hours of battery life.

[@HeirophantOurple]

@@woofle4330 Already is in some phones

[@africanelectron751]

My huawie does that

[@jakeb6703]

Give it 10 years for solid state batteries and maybe we'll get cars w that

[@jakelegrice4773]

@@woofle4330 my phone charges in 30 mins and has about 10 hours battery life

[@Zerbey]

My friend's Dad was an insurance guy and so had a car phone in the 1980s. I remember him driving me home and saying I could call my parents if I wanted to. Felt like I was in a space ship or something (thanks Philip for letting me have that experience, RIP you legend). Nowadays we take these things for granted!

[@jaikenmainy]

69th like

[@Zerbey]

@@jaikenmainy Nice.

[@TrueRetroflection]

A toast to Philip--May we all become the parents with the tech our children's friends aspire to have

[@TheDennys21]

"Hey dad, guess where i'm calling from, a moving car, isn't that crazy?!"

[@piorun7903]

Ahh yes. Back when the "mobile" phones were literally bricks. Good times.

[@piorun7903]

@Ok Jesus christ i thought that was a screamer link for a second lol

[@PizzaPowerXYZ]

@@piorun7903 it is That's a bot

[@kyliandc9276]

I remember reading at school a detective book (maybe Goosebumps ? ) where a girl was murdered and the weapon was actually a mobile phone (she got knocked on the head and made a seizure). Being from the late 90's it only made sense years after when i discovered these kind of phones

[@thedoge7182]

More like *NUGGETS*

[@jointsoundhittinnow]

@cruising ik u have a reason to say that but 1- stop assuming, 2- most bfdi fans ive met are born at around 2001-2008, if they’re from the beginning then they’re even older because the 1st bfdi episode was released on new years 2010 and 3- whats so bad about being born in 2011?nobody can control their age 😐

[@therealkzero]

To be fair, having one of these in the mid 80's, INSTANTLY made you the most important person in a 10 block radius. I remember seeing a gentleman walk into the local mall with one...and i'm not joking when I say everyone stopped everything they were doing to stare. It was like seeing Michael Jackson in person. The world around him just stopped while he walked by. Insane.

[@AbhijeetKumar-cm3jh]

I mean, having the power the hold a 10,000 dollar brick in your hand, almost makes you a celebrity.

[@spiderpickle3255]

It extended past the 80's too. When I was a kid in the early mid 90's dad brought home a couple discarded MicroTACs that still had working batteries. They didn't have service but still worked for emergency calls, which was enough excuse for me to carry one around and act important. Got similar reactions to what you described because in the 90's it was unheard of to see a 10 year old with a cell phone (even though pagers were common with kids at the time) and still rare to see an adult not wearing a suit with one.

[@mr.fahrenheit7009]

I have 2 if only it was the 80s

[@jackieburkhart3268]

i mean, if you carry one of those nowadays, people will look at you lmao

[@danimayb]

@@spiderpickle3255 Yeah I guess that's true lol. I'd say by late 90s is when cell phones started to become somewhat popular across society and ages, With the introduction of PAYG package handsets that cost around 100-130 bux. I bought my first one in 1997 on my 17th birthday which was a Motorola D160 And have always had a cell phone since! Those Nokia phones during the 2000s were great fun aha

[@armaan_bhangoo]

My mom always tells me the tale of how you could drop a Nokia, and it wouldn't just be fine, it would work better. Phone ain't getting reception, drop it. Phone isn't turning on, drop it. Phone is being dumb, drop kick it and it'll never act up again.

[@maybepolly_]

in my family we always said "we must treat things with care" just before throwing the nokia at the wall so it worked properly

[@AttorneyBCollins]

There's a great meme with a guy thinking,"Whenever you are feeling purposeless and unneeded, remember...someone made a protector for a Nokia 3310!" Another guy answers, "It was to protect the floor!"

[@SpaceShitV]

@@AttorneyBCollins I know exactly witch one you're talking about, it's truly a wonderful meme

[@maxklassen254]

@@AttorneyBCollins love that joke

[@Lambda_Ovine]

I think my mom confused me with a phone then.

[@car_pal]

I remember when phones were considered better when they were smaller, the smaller the more high tech the higher price. Now we are doing the opposite, the bigger the better, what a tech trip this video was hahah

[@ItsHonski]

Didn’t expect to see you here

[@Danse_Macabre_125]

Never knew you watched this

[@KanarisTM]

HOLY CRAP CAR PAL COMMENTED HERE?!

[@Danse_Macabre_125]

@@KanarisTM oh yeah

[@o1OrangeLeopard]

The smaller the better until you could watch videos on them.

[@sirsavagethe21st56]

I've heard stories about people moving bricks in the 80's they were not kidding.

[@SheepDavidofun]

escobar used to sell so many motorolas

[@TopherBinx]

I don't think you... Wait. You're probably right.

[@Carriesue1982]

As someone born in the early 80’s thank you for making me feel ancient today lol

[@nightcrawler2717]

Tony Montana owned one of these

[@alexcharles8541]

You win the Internet today. Have a beer 🍺

[@Kairos-XIII-2]

Taking a call from that melted all chocolate bars in a 3 meter radius

[@mohomonkey9906]

You mean kilometres

[@bryburiya2709]

@@mohomonkey9906 *light years

[@ElectricGun100]

Pocket microwave

[@ElectricGun100]

@@roslynnerentas8939 *nanowave*

[@DeadlyDanDaMan]

People really don't appreciate how incredibly far the miniaturization of technology has come over the last 40 years. It's absolutely ridiculous.

[@Liggliluff]

Well, the miniaturisation happened with in the first ... few years? But since the brick phones, it hasn't gotten much smaller.

[@licht4808]

@@Liggliluff no, you're underselling it. we have 5nm transistors these days. the iphone just a couple of years ago only had 16GB as its max storage option. your comment is wrong.

[@discopotato4673]

@@Liggliluff Oh man, that's just the size you hold in your hand. Now consider this, we went from handheld resolution of 96x32 pixels to a full fledged 1440x3200 pixels on a modern flagship in these years and that's just 1 spec. To put that in comparative numbers, that's an increase of 149,900% in terms of just pixels.

[@gp75motorsports]

@@discopotato4673 And don't forget all the stuff modern phones have. Not only the huge screens, but also basically entire computer systems built right into something that can fit in your pocket. A CPU with integrated graphics, haptic feedback motors, a touchscreen, solid-state storage, RAM, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi... Whereas, if you wanted a cell phone in 1988, you'd have to drop the 2021 equivalent of $10,000 on a gigantic brick that lasted 30 minutes per call, had to recharge for 10 hours and whose fanciest feature was being able to store 30 numbers. We've come such a damn long way in such a relatively short amount of time.

[@discopotato4673]

@@gp75motorsports Yee, I was just putting in one spec as comparison otherwise I'd start babbling about how cool tech has become.

[@jbanks979]

I just can’t even imagine the stress of actually using that thing knowing you had 30 minutes of talk time and TEN HOURS to charge it “Himom sorrydadsinthehosptialkthanksgottagobyeloveyou”

[@AverageAlien]

No stress at all, it wasn't really used by normal people

[@Dvfam2000]

Thats why you have the charging brick to put back phone on charge.

[@Antares-dw9iv]

It doesn't sound like a lot, but realistically 30 minutes of mobile talk time a day is more than most people will ever need. This wouldn't have been your only phone, back then you'd almost certainly have a landline at home or in your office as well so you'd only really use this to make calls on the go and even in the time before texting 30 minutes a day seems plenty to me for that purpose.

[@SoundShinobiYuki]

Most people who had them (rich business people, basically) kept them in their car where they could charge off the car battery, landlines were still standard at home.

[@SkulShurtugalTCG]

Which came first: The Chicken or the Nugget?

[@bill-clintongaming]

the nugget

[@Dontworryaboutit961]

The chegg

[@Just_Ben_YT]

The dank

[@DiamondProAlpine]

nugg

[@StinkyScript]

@create will you shut up

[@360NoHope_]

“so does a can of pepsi” don’t give me ideas while i’m drinking pepsi

[@squerlicious]

@Project X Main too late cops called

[@simonarnback6547]

@Project X Main FBI OPEN UP!

[@johnynoway9127]

damn.... i dont need to make or buy bombs... all i ever needed was a bunch of cans and light em up n throw. nvm... its called molotov

[@Denis7947.]

Pepsi + mentos💀

[@eurobeatfan8718]

"Can I borrow your phone?" "Yeah, sure!" "Hang on, this is a brick, not a phone" "Exactly!"

[@stopsign2594]

Nah it’s a giant nugget

[@eurobeatfan8718]

"You are meant to play pretend with the brick"

[@stopsign2594]

@@eurobeatfan8718 brick* i meant

[@Red_Lanterns_Rage]

can I use your brick as the cornerstone if this new high rise I'm building??

[@okamijubei]

And that's why they are called brick phones.

[@JessAWeeb]

My great grandma had a phone similar to the first brick. It came in a foam briefcase and had a huge thick charger cable. I only got to see it a couple of times, never got to use it, since it was very precious to her and she was convinced that portable phones would be very useful. She was right.

[@elijahwilliams7791]

You shouting out cube runner makes me feel so valid.... As the world record holder for 3 of the 4 Cube Runner modes.

[@jessehenderson9864]

My pre-K teacher in 2007 had a microTAC that was a “toy” phone, she also had other various old big Motorola phones for us to play with

[@f.b.i9524]

Thats sad, I would have LOVED one

[@ab.3800]

they where made to look like a vw harlequin

[@AlexYeets]

@@ab.3800 Legendary, though I think a little obscure of a reference. :P

[@Danse_Macabre_125]

@@AlexYeetsLike 5 people watching this know the reference

[@1_Vinity]

I'm sure the kids probably flushed the phones down a toilet

[@interdimensionalemployee1117]

“So boss we should use all the space we have left in our new phone, maybe so the battery can last longer?” “No Fred you’re fired. the battery will last 30 minutes, and if you ever bring this up again we’ll sue you”

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

I mean, for the time, they probably had a bunch of trouble trying to figure it out. I know some of the "mobile" phones had basically battery backpacks you had to wear to use them.

[@trevor245]

The battery is that big it's just that the technology wasn't there yet so they needed that much space for 30 minutes.

[@VulpesHilarianus]

The power consumption to battery level on these was pretty abysmal. The best batteries for the nickel-cadmium ones if I remember were like 750mAh. Even the shittiest lithium-ion battery holds 1200mAh today. You're also running that at 6A, which is more power consumption than a microwave oven. The other thing is they had an entire physical modem shoved in there. There wasn't any software emulation as a shortcut at all like later phones.

[@JaredConnell]

All the space left? There was basically no space left that they could use for a battery. Even if they could somehow make a battery that fit around all the components it would last maybe a few seconds more anyways.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

6A must be a massive, industrial microwave. Mine doesn't even hit 4A on full power. But if we go by voltage, those brick phones probably run on 6V, or even 9V, that would be 36-54W on 6A

[@scott1564]

I almost bought a "brick" phone back around 1990. They had come down in price to around the mid to high 3 figures by then. I couldn't really justify it, so I passed. My dad bought a portable version -- the one that "hung up," had a handle on it and could be carried around. I'd say it was about the size of a large day planner. I don't know how much it cost but the monthly fee was around $30-35 just for the service and then there were per minute charges on top of that -- no "free" minutes as I recall. The first cell phone I actually got was something from Radio Shack around 1993. It wasn't small enough to put in my pocket, but it was much closer to the size of the Nokia (it wasn't that brand, but I forgot what it was). It cost me a penny for the phone (!!) and again, something like $25 or 30 a month, but you got 100 or so minutes included. It wasn't until Sprint PCS, what I believe to be the precursor to 2G or the digital network, came out around 1997 that the service fees covered a fair amount of minutes and later texts. I think the funny thing is, I now keep my iPhones much longer than I ever kept any early gen cell or PCS phone in spite of the rapid changing tech of the newer smart phones. Pretty much 4 years minimum now; going to keep my XS for 5 or until they go USB-C on the port.

[@nikkiofthevalley]

The thing is, it isn't rapidly changing. It's just marketing and small features at this point.

[@jack_2000]

All jokes aside, it's amazing you've got these, they really are pieces of portable technology and communications history. They'll fit right alongside the Craigs

[@Ðogecoin]

Can

[@ynot5643]

Your mum.

[@smallmann4628]

Smell

[@therealmoopmoop.4321]

my friend has a Craig 8-track player

[@half-dusted]

@@therealmoopmoop.4321 YESSS

[@igotes]

My uncle gave me his old cell phone he had in his truck, from the late 80s. It was the size of a small suitcase and weighed something like 4 kilos. 6210 was my first phone too, I had to pay for it myself and all, no wealthy dad here!

[@matthewjbauer1990]

My grandpa gave me the briefcase phone he used to have in his Lincoln in the 80s. Also, he gave me his "portable" backpack phone he used before that. I don't remember what happened to them, but I wish we had kept them if we didn't because they are worth something now (collectors items).

[@TheMadTatter]

My old man also had a briefcase phone when he was a recovery driver, that toonwas Motorola and the briefcase-sized meant it had a huge speaker and microphone in it which allowed it to be hands free on the road.

[@MichaelEricMenk]

I remember when we upgraded from the phone we bought in the mid 70s. The brochure.. It stated : "The new light weight from Panasonic, only 4.6kg. Now so light that you can take it with everywhere" And it was a picture of the phone hanging from a golf bag. And compared with the phone from the mid 70s, yes it was light weight...

[@Nadia1989]

One of those is used for decoration at a restaurant I use to go. You could kill someone with it.

[@jackbauer4762]

Still a wealthy uncle who could give away the model in the first place

[@Mr.White1]

I remember my dad’s lawyer coming to our house with a portable phone. A box about the size of an iPad, a handle on the top and a phone receiver. I was too little, not sure what brand it was.

[@shayneoneill1506]

My dad was a Telephone linesman and had one of these chonkers in his car. Back in the 80s we thought it was goddamn star trek technology.

[@fivish]

There were several transportable phones which had brick size batteries and the handset with wiggly chord and of course a 10 Watt transmitter.

[@iggy151]

That was probably a Motorola bag phone

[@Slash27015]

My grandma handed me my first phone in like 2002, a motorola micro. It was the size of a brick and took a credit card sized sim, and it could only do calls. Thanks for believing in me grandma, 10 year old me was the coolest kid on the block cause of it.

[@PRH123]

You and your grammy were way behind the times, in '02 phones were the size of credit cards... GSM phones in Europe + world anyway....

[@just-jaden]

To think that the cell phones back then we’re literally bricks and can only take calls, while today’s phones are literal mobile smart computers being able to do almost everything.

[@wlj]

back when to store 4mb you needed a room

[@lululock]

When I was a kid (2004), I dreamed about people having really tiny foldable computers fitting in their pockets... Well, mine isn't foldable but is basically a computer fitting in my pocket, so I guess my childhood dream came true ?

[@wyvern4588]

@@lululock We were almost there already when the Razr phone came out in 2004, all the cool kids had them, as a poor freshman I had no phone, but eventually got a really shitty dumb-phone in 2006- with *gasp* mobile internet.

[@tristan6509]

@@wlj nope you're bullshitting. back in 80s floppy disks exists and you'd need a dozen 360k disks or 6 double sided 5 inc floppies for 4mb.

[@dyl7769]

@@tristan6509 you do realize the computer was created out of vacuum tubes originally. And each tube acted as a singular bit. Hence 1,024 being needed for a kilobit. And 1,048,576 being needed for a singular mega bit. Now considering there's 8 bits in a byte and we are talking megabytes we would need 32x the vacuum tubes. So in other words it would take more than likely several miles^cubed of space to occupy this many vacuum tubes.

[@akhil_kasiram]

Everyone: making videos about the nothing ear ones Dank pods: pa ho nee

[@Zainalii._]

I cant wait for you to make a video on the new "nothing ear(1)" because ngl all the reviews look kinda fake because I have never seen a device getting such constant positive reviews. So i would love to see a review from you

[@gentlemansfrog8587]

Same

[@NordriOfUthgard]

"Don't go beyond about 2/3 of the max volume, it gets really distorted beyond that" doesn't exactly count as positive but yrah other than that it's all pretty positive. Which screams SUS to me.

[@Flopdiva]

Yeah

[@Purpiii]

I'm only seeing reviews from tech enthusiasts who only care about features and not so much about audio

[@adnvdn]

MKBHD made a review and he criticize the battery life and audio quality. Based on his review, it basically has the same audio quality as Ray's con or equivalent

[@FedeVicente88]

I just love the enthusiasm in your voice, really authentic in presenting such a brick.

[@ulischmidt03]

that thing ain’t a nugget, that thing is the whole chicken!

[@unliving_ball_of_gas]

{insert funny reply}

[@RimuKora]

@@unliving_ball_of_gas {insert laugh soundtrack}

[@eye5448]

@@RimuKora {insert unexpected adult scene}

[@BFDI_1fan]

(Insert BFDI Scream)

[@itsandre97]

Every call with this nugget is equal to a chest x-ray probably

[@ulischmidt03]

I don’t think you know how phones work

[@lastfirst5863]

Battery is ncad not lithium ion, it doesn’t have that much juice.

[@nanonymous9139]

Not great, not terrible.

[@DibIrken]

Uhhh..this doesn't emit radiation like smartphones do.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Good old 450 MHz C-net

[@decipher111]

Looks like you’re holding technologically advanced sandwiches

[@soapmactavish1414]

loafs 🍞

[@lukabitheredfox]

When he said “Ugh, stupid 80s”, I cracked up.😂 3:10 is when he says it

[@izzie9526]

"May explode if disposed of in a fire" "Well so do Pepsi cans but they don't have that warning"

[@frankiethebull8269]

Pepsi cans explode when they freeze too lol....and so will batteries.

[@stablow4291]

yes he said that no need toi comment that dumbass

[@partIycIoudy]

@@stablow4291 who pissed in your cereal?

[@ibethatgoldfishmf]

The battery do be flatter than a tire with a nail in it

[@karotgamin790]

@@partIycIoudy me

[@bananaassasin7514]

Genuine leather comes from the worst.part of the hide that's why it tends to be really cheap

[@amichiganboiwhosereallazy1544]

Really?

[@lostonso]

@@amichiganboiwhosereallazy1544 yeah! “Genuine leather” doesnt just mean that the leather is real, it actually means its taken from the cheapest and most unwanted part of the hide. Its actually pretty genius that advertisers found a way to make something cheap sound like high quality

[@bananaassasin7514]

_r yeah the name sounds good but it's actually pretty low end

[@Vvv-mb8vv]

CJ been holding this thing in his pocket, just saying.

[@edwardthehazardous1524]

Don't forget Tommy!

[@geraldchurchill5576]

San Andreas takes place in the early 90s, cell phones in the early 90s were a bit more manageable, at least compared to this.

[@hiralykowalski6825]

He also carry Rocket Launcher That's nothing for him

[@mrbdwastaken]

@@geraldchurchill5576 he still has a brick for a phone cuz he’s from the ghetto

[@aibalta6340]

Wym pocket?

[@PhirePhlame]

I've got a gold Motorola Bagphone as well as one of Technophone's competitors. Both are only the car kit, but both surprisingly work when plugged in! The latter even has a little light in the post of its car plug to let you know it's getting power!

[@deadmansteely]

Everytime Dank Pods uploads world happiness meter goes up

[@akiproductions7084]

No your equalizer graph goes up…. Please…..💹

[@DecentPing]

Qg ree

[@travisaasen2037]

I agree

[@kot4396]

My dirtybuds started sounding great

[@itslvc5588]

Haha serotonin goes brrrrr

[@nicoh848]

I honestly loved joining the adventure of “is this new?!” and joining the rollercoaster. Please keep doing what you’re doing.

[@swans184]

Yeah I love his enthusiasm!

[@lombridious]

4:45 AHHHHH THIS IS HOW THEY KEEP THE WEAKLINGS OF WALL STREET I MEAN YOU HAVE TO BE PHYSICALLY STRONG TO DO BUSINESS IN THE 80s. Man why are you so accurate.

[@RevRod92]

The second phone you showed was like my grandpa's cell phone for his business. We even had walkie-talkies that looked like it. They were the best to play with and I still miss them tbh.

[@JTSuarez]

That brick could replace the 1grit™

[@SpaceShitV]

Nothing can get in the way of the (Drumroll) 1BRICK

[@deathsyth8888]

At least 1 Grit gives things a fighting chance. The big chungus Motorola mobile phone? It would completely crush things in an instant. Where's the sport in that?

[@TheBlargMarg]

That brick could "one grit" the one grit

[@datutturugang666]

nah, that’s the 1GRIT™️’s phone

[@thelaxsoviet5922]

nothing can replace 1 grit

[@woolfieMcP]

Back when "bricked phone" meant your phone was a literal brick

[@fantastiday5984]

I know this is irrelevant but I remember when playing GTA Vice City that Tommy use a similar phone like in the video considering that the game take place in 1986.

[@jackmartin6502]

@@fantastiday5984 CJ uses it in San Andreas too

[@bujablaster]

Nope. It actually had real physical meaning - phone of that size and weight became brick if something wrong happened to it. Today "bricked phone" is just poor resemblance of what it did really mean then :).

[@nopeitwasepilepsy4616]

There are still brick phones today not that they are as big as a brick but they are as tough as a brick

[@fynkozari9271]

In the future, current smartphones gonna look ridiculous. Compared to the future technology phones.

[@mothman7430]

"Dad case" is the best name for these cases.

[@Stefan-]

I used to repair these professionally in the 90´s here in Sweden, well at least the Micro tacs and the Dynatac which was very similar in style to the first Motorola that you showed but a bit slimmer, the model i probably repaired most during the 5 years i worked repairing mobile phones was the very popular Nokia 2110. What you are talking about though is the first handheld mobile phones, mobile phones actually dates back to the first half of the 1900´s and Sweden apparently had the first fully automated mobile phone system in 1956 named MTA which was for vehicles since they werent portable. I worked on NMT (analog) and GSM phones (digital and on its way out now at least here in Sweden).

[@rowni]

"This is how they keep the weaklings off Wall Street" LMAOOO xD

[@LunaS043]

It's pretty insane how fast tech has progressed in the last 20 years. From 2000 onward technology exploded in such a fast pace.

[@itryen7632]

I fucking love these retro ringtones for some reason. They're simple, and make you feel like you're doing *REAL MEN'S BUSINESS*

[@jellybIood]

Reminds me of early GTA games

[@alphenhousplaysgames4565]

it also feels like if i don't pick it up something meaningfully bad may happen.

[@itryen7632]

@@alphenhousplaysgames4565 *ignores ringtone* *sirens start blaring a couple minutes later*

[@artificialintelligence9378]

​@@itryen7632 With a mushroom cloud in the distance.

[@A-G-F-]

6:24 i really love when sellers do these kinds of stuff, is just neat and makes you happy about buying that particular listing

[@Lobos222]

My first experience with a "mobile" phone was my dads car phone. An *Alcatel Comfort T-Com.* Which had a serious magnet holding the phone in place and battery cartridge that could challenge a VHS tape. Changing batter felt like changing a mag in super weapon. You also got a wire with a serious magnet and antenna at the end you could put on the roof of the car without mounting anything else. Making calls with it worked great and it kinda had this "military" feel to it.

[@metraforce441]

*Just imagine how old and outdated our current phones will be after a few decades*

[@sachensager8476]

In ten years smartphones wont exist like now

[@albinhaformiga1070]

Yeah is both interesting and quite scary

[@georgemanize]

Nah technology in general has hit plateau since the mid 2000s. A future phone would just have better specs but it won't be something crazy that belongs in a scifi film.

[@NoFeckingNamesLeft]

@@sachensager8476 There’s a very direct line from the phones in this vid to the ones now. Smaller, more features, better battery etc but they’re still fundamentally the same concept just with incremental improvements, and over the previous decade their design hasn’t even evolved much. It’s a bit silly to think another ten years will somehow fundamentally change the device.

[@katethegoat7507]

My dream is having a world where tech goes as good as it gets and we don't have to worry about obsolescence when we buy stuff

[@thatoneguyithink4731]

it's pretty amazing when you think about it: the phone was invented in the late 19th centery (1876 right?) so it took 100 years to make them moblie, but only 40 to make them one of the most advanced and powerful machines that all of us use everyday

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

afaik before there were cellphones like that, they already did "mobile" phones, that were basically suitcases that can call, during the 50's. Also available as car phones. A bit like the first portable computers, where portable meant that one person can carry them. Oh, I just read they did some early things during WWI

[@thatoneguyithink4731]

@@HappyBeezerStudios guess I should have paid more attention in history class

[@aidanely]

And only 15 years to make them a touchscreen and in everyone’s pockets after that

[@ryanjcurran2]

I've been restarting this video for "PA-HO-NEEZ" and I may never be able to stop

[@ovvvven]

That ain’t no nugget. That’s a whole-ass chicken.

[@unliving_ball_of_gas]

Stolen. The same comment is right on top

[@stranger4407]

@@unliving_ball_of_gas yeah lmao

[@ovvvven]

@@unliving_ball_of_gas My comment was made at the same time as his. Also, even if I did see his comment first, it wasn’t stolen. The joke that I made used the same word play but in a different format. Stolen would be if I copied it word for word.

[@eye5448]

Stolen comment! We got a stolen comment here guys! Don't thumbs up his comment because it's stolen, everybody!

[@ovvvven]

@@eye5448 Oh, really? It’s stolen? I’m disliking it. Thanks for the advice!

[@PineThemApples]

doesn't matter what im doing, if dankpods uploads, you betcha im dropping everything to go watch that video asap

[@Charky_Creations]

You've made me realise there are kids who DIDN'T start with their dad's hand-me-down phone and that's terrifying

[@JamienautMark2]

I mean most kids my age had a phone by 6/7th grade but I got one when I went off to college. And that was awhile ago now. Kids now have them by elementary school.

[@paradise_valley]

All the phones I’ve used my entire life, except my first Nokia, have been my dad’s hand me downs. You can never go wrong cuz I always end up with a good phone. I doubt my parents would be willing to do it any other way. More people should make less electronic waste by just doing stuff like this. It’s a shame Apple and Samsung don’t allow you to replace batteries that easily anymore.

[@cameronaberner]

I didn't, but that because I bought my first cell phone myself when I started working so that work could call me. I always regretted that decision.

[@vstev3472]

My dad never give me any hand-me-down so yeah :)

[@Charky_Creations]

@@JamienautMark2 I had one when I was 10 or 11, but it was definitely just my dad's old 3310 in a doctor who shell. I was quite a vulnerable kids so my parents wanted to make sure I could contact them I think. I definitely wouldn't have got a brand new smartphone at that age.. if they'd existed...

[@moconnell663]

The reason they have such strong warnings about not disposing of the battery in fire is that once upon a time, in an era before even alkaline batteries were common, the zinc-carbon batteries of the day were safe to dispose of by burning them with the rest of your trash.

[@ColaAnimates]

Screaming Aussie man is now a phone reviewer, nice

[@the_teckeroo]

The warning should have been “Warning: battery may explode if exposed to fire or a can of Pepsi.”

[@wakcedout]

I remember the soda pop company my dad worked for having those early flip phones, the bulky one, so they could reach him while he was on the road. And yes.....it had the leather case, so calling it the dad case had more meaning for me lol.

[@emmeryncariglino4983]

3:44 I used to work at US WEST('s successor company three times removed) and around my office I found some old sales literature for these!!

[@kurokoro]

Yes kids this were the first "mobile"phones, a feature he didnt mention is you could microwave your food on the go with it and recreate a chernobyl nuclear meltdown if the battery exploded, also you can use it as a large hadron collider that could potentially cause a rift in time and space.

[@anonym3017]

These were the first handheld cellular mobile phones. There were also suitcase mobile phones and car boot mobile phones prior to that. And by prior I mean released in 1946. Weighing 80 pounds and a whopping 3 of the could be in the NY metro area at one time.

[@Flopdiva]

“Me” old phone collector… I might just make a house with all these Old Dinotax. My wife” why is the new house made with plastic with buttons? Me” well honey… it’s me “opens a cabinet made of nanos” it’s me

[@Flopdiva]

My iPhone 6… holy $&!@! it’s like a piece of paper… my old razor, cuts my loaf of bread. WoOOOOOoOw!!!!

[@Katesashark]

Na no

[@Flopdiva]

. Na-no🙂😇

[@mcfxckurmum7508]

Wot?

[@dovesveins333]

what does this mean

[@PedroNogueiranunes]

You and ozzymanreviews should make a Collab. Would be the funniest thing ever

[@swedish_brick_enjoyer]

Also do one with Nat’s What I Reckon

[@warpig-bh9kh]

And Internet historian

[@BrendenPragasam]

@Ok wait wut is this

[@bradwindysucks]

Nah that dude is just an unfunny content thief

[@armaan_bhangoo]

@@BrendenPragasam he put it on every comment

[@salmonsoup15]

This was the first dankpods video I watched, and now I’m a patreon, and celebrate every upload.

[@salmonsoup15]

i was just about to comment a comment i already commented, i think i have brain loss

[@Piano_Board]

cool XDDDD

[@fighter1375]

The first call on a mobile phone was an absolute Chad move 📞

[@GingerNingerGames]

I work in a battery shop, I was watching this on lunch and when he's talking about the battery life on the first one my boss laughed as well, not even watching.

[@secretjanus]

😂😂

[@romulas-cushmanproject3273]

My dad had a very early “mobile” phone, he worked at a auto parts store (Napa all the way!) in his early adult life, and he occasionally was the parts runner to deliver parts to local auto repair shops. and in the center console of the work truck he drove was a massive brick of a phone. He has a picture of him making a call in it and the thing is the size of his head! He said It had a battery life of maybe an hour, and it had to be plug into its dock in the center console when not in use

[@benjamindodge6078]

At 8:05 when dank says "it's got the dad case", it just sounds nice

[@Tengokujin]

0:02 Nokia 6210 0:07 Nokia 3310/3330/3390 0:47 Centel Motorola DynaTAC 8000X 1:08 Apple iPhone 12 1:30 Modar (Motorola) DynaTAC PULSAR - 3:00 Car kit 3:22 USWEST MegaPhone - Motorola Digital Personal Communicator 3:51 Bell Mobility - Motorola MicroTAC 9800X 7:33 Motorola StarTAC 130 (MG2-4D11) 10:11 Patreon credits 10:23 Motorola C200 10:27 Outro 10:32 Frank

[@peppyrobo7049]

Okay WOW! The fact this came out in 1983 while the Walkman came out in 1979 really makes me respect how forward Sony was with their tech and I can totally see the portability of that cassette player even more now in comparison (and yes I know one is a phone and one isn’t but like still)

[@ericn.wilson2345]

So many old man memories from this video. Kind of sad you don't have one of the bag phones, though. They were extra powerful and had longer range back when coverage was a joke out in the boondocks.

[@marshallguerra1353]

Wow !! I was in the cell phone business from 1987 until 2000. I have installed and sold as well as serviced all the phones in your video. Thanks for taking me down memory lane.

[@thecatherd]

"WAOU! PAISLEY!" is gonna live with me forever.

[@nobodyfromnowwhere7510]

1:50 It can also be used as a weapon; you know, like any good brick.

[@rebeccahetrick6576]

My grandfather had the original "car phone" in his Cadillac. The one with the green backlit buttons where you had to hold down the call button after entering the phone number to get the call to go through.... The entire base was "installed" (jammed) under the front passenger seat and the phone itself was next to the center console. It kind of reminds me of a computer since there was a separate base from the actual brick handset... And in the 90's my dad had one of the original Motorola flip phones exactly like the one you show at 4:10 It lived in the glove compartment of his truck and he used it _maybe_ twice in the 5 years he had it. He didn't get another "cell phone" until around 2012 when his work gave him one, AND IT WAS A FLIP PHONE! Hell, even my mom still refuses to get a smartphone. But she LOVES her crappy old 7 inch fire tablet.....

[@christopherbrown9069]

As a kid in the 80s and 90s, I remember every one of these. Good memories.

[@chronically_bqueenb]

Oh yah the famous car phone I remember everyone wanted

[@alyxl4mb904]

In my old house my parents rented there was 5 or 6 of those 8000s I’m now remembering this

[@thatwolffe3802]

you could make bank on those if you found them these days.

[@alyxl4mb904]

@@thatwolffe3802 yea except they weren’t ours they were the landlords or some shit

[@ryder2156]

1983 to now isn’t even that long and look how our technology has progressed, from a literal brick to the phones we have today.

[@martymoist]

Right?!? My phone has a 144hz screen. Crazy seeing how it first started and how far we've gone.

[@ryder2156]

@@martymoist and 30 minutes of battery life from 10 hours of charge. Now a days it’s the other way around.

[@TheMultiGamerOfficial]

1983 was nearly 40 years ago.

[@ryder2156]

@@TheMultiGamerOfficial yea, not that long ago.

[@kingbeaner1286]

Imagine whats coming in the next 40 years

[@Flopster101]

2:46 "WARNING: May explode if disposed of in a fire" "Well so do Pepsi cans but they don't have that warning." This had me absolutely cracking up for 5 minutes, thank you Dank.

[@bummer6]

4:00 - fun fact; both the fold-down microphone AND the antenna on that phone are 100% fake... They're just pieces of plastic with nothing in them. If you look at the cavity for the hinge when the flap is folded down, you can actually see the tiny little hole where the ACTUAL microphone is located.

[@ManoharOfficial]

8:08 I had curtains with the same pattern when I was a kid!!! Not even kidding. For 5 years straight, woke up, saw the sunshine through the pattern then started my day

[@LaskyLabs]

I had a chance to get one of these bricks at an antique store. But it was like $50 and I only had $25 lol Ah well... At least I got to hold it.

[@RobertJW]

I really hope when the Nothing Ear One is available in Australia, that you get your hands on a pair! Would love to hear your opinions on them.

[@AZREDFERN]

3:40 My father bought one of those used in the early 90's and used it until the network no longer supported it. I remember trying to take the battery off for no reason, and it was pretty much child proof. He also got a StarTac after that one, but the hinges kept breaking within the warranty period.

[@biggie_tea]

I geeked tf out when you said "starTAC". Absolutely love old tech and god do I want one

[@MrJruta]

I still wouldn’t mind a startac! Loved mine in the day

[@Fitzroyfallz]

I started collecting old phones like these! They have a lot of charm and history to them. It’s a shame they can’t work anymore, I’d love to be able to use them properly. I was able to use my nokia 3310 all the way up until around 2016, when they stopped supporting 2G. Perhaps there’s a way to convert them to 3G or 4G, but I’m no tech expert so I’m not sure.

[@LexMc0606]

8:28 "Betcha they were a Santana fan." More like Grateful Dead with that Psychedelic case.

[@guardian6975]

Santana

[@ultimatederp5069]

0:30 it may not fun angry birds but it does run snake and snake is the actual best mobile game.

[@m-ai-g-r-ei-t--]

Run*

[@ChrisTheMagical12]

I really would just play snake on it endlessly.

[@pauljensen5699]

Centel was the telecom company for the Chicagoland area in mid 1980's to the early 1990's. My parents had cable TV through them.

[@King_Immanuel]

Gonna watch this with the earbuds you recommended, thanks!

[@ehorn9646]

Which one?

[@King_Immanuel]

@Anthony Hallam The Kz zsn pro’s, they fire 🔥

[@Just_Ben_YT]

I had a Nokia when I was 6, my parents gave it to me as a toy (it didn't work) it was really cool

[@monstie2795]

@Ok nobody cares

[@MrRendeer]

Same dude

[@sumeriancoppermerchant650]

Same

[@4lancer495]

when I was 7 my parents gave me an used original iPhone that was full of games and it's battery would stay for about 16 hours

[@rushilkisoon]

@@4lancer495 these are worth a fortune nowadays

[@TerrorLTZ]

you can tell Dank is holding his laugh when giving the description by just the emotion of the voice.

[@leadpoisoning717]

I had completely forgotten how impossible it used to be to open battery covers

[@katrinabryce]

And nowadays you need a heat gun to open them.

[@ariesyana]

I can still hear the ringtone to this date.

[@backyardaviator2920]

Man I still remember them Startacs when My Folks from the States Used to bring them back here in my Place,this is prolly one of the Most Bizzare yet "Hightech" thing Ive Ever held when I was a Kid lmao

[@jdraven0890]

First time I saw these in actual use was in 1992, and they were like that "slim" type you first showed -- a lot of real estate agents had those "bag phones" made for your car. And that was about it. The rest of us had pagers, and radios that could make a phone call in a pinch. On the plus side, you could use it as a weapon to defend yourself.

[@dylanjimenez-stevens]

0:03 I need a 1 hour replay of that its just a master piece

[@fahmirblx]

2:38 Me waiting for Schrodinger to make a Tactical Reload of this

[@peanutrabbit5847]

The first phone you showed is actually more like an 8000M/F. A later model that debuted in around 87, it was sold all the way until the mid 90’s, as such they are quite common. The pulsar is actually a special variant of the 8000F if I recall with an accessory plug on the side, hence the somewhat wider body. Yours also has an extremely rare extended battery, not all of them came with those.

[@Techno-Universal]

Also a fun fact is that the world’s first all in one VHS camcorder that also came out in 1983 cost 10,000 USD at the time which was more than the first mobile phone and more than most small cars at the time! :)

[@PCrailfan3790]

1:32 I love his laugh here