The iTunes Phone - The Story of Apple’s Phone Before the iPhone (A Retrospective)

[@OnlyEpicEmber]

Quick, somebody tell Dank Pods

[@aidancommenting]

Wonder if it'll be half as useful as Lisa's Jam Box.. Lol Edit: if you haven't watched that video, it's the iPod that survived the fire

[@DedlyAidan]

someone also needs to tell him about the razer anzu smartglasses

[@SlyHikari03]

The Nugget man

[@eemeli7093]

PKCELL

[@Dogedadogo]

OH that would be a fun episode and he has done some Motorola videos

[@nuraadv1]

Never knew they had something before the iPhone thanks for giving me knowledge

[@MichaelMJD]

You’re welcome!

[@suioganwilliam]

You should've watched Plainrock124

[@rpst39]

William-Albert Suiogan you are right people should know everything about it

[@heyitsnemo]

I have one.

[@nuraadv1]

Greg Velez cool!

[@hrq007]

"How many of you carry an iPod around with you today?" I do. Blame DankPods.

[@NeonSonOfXenon]

DankPods is what got me back into iPods. Planning to get an iPod 4th gen monochrome, iPod video 5.5, and an iPod mini 2nd gen to mod with high storage and maybe diyMod to hold my lossless audio. I like Spotify, but they don't have all my music, and Android is a bit poop when it comes to music library apps and synching, so having a dedicated offline player is wonderful.

[@caromac_]

HAITCH PEA

[@johndostech]

GEIR! GEIR! GEIR! GEIR!

[@connorblack99]

Lol same here

[@Thatguy101987]

Same here, I travel a lot for work, can't stream on my phone on a plane, so I have a 5th gen ipod, I added an iflash with 512GB of storage, and a 3000mAh battery.

[@francescobelletta]

Me: It's time to go to bed Michael MJD: *uploads a new video*

[@falcy2889]

Ha! It's 22:45 for me I'm lucky 😛

[@ID10Tpig]

Damn I miss my Moto ROKR E1 back in high school (05-09). The tank shooter game, the 3 day battery life, the 100 song limit in iTunes, the weird 2.5mm headset and the adapter I had to use for my regular headphones and the fun led lights in the speaker grills. Damn, nostalgia throwback.

[@nemaparanemanovaca]

Was there a "creepy penguin" game on it?

[@alejandratorreta]

I have motorola razr

[@jonathangaul276]

@@nemaparanemanovaca Yes there is

[@nemaparanemanovaca]

@@jonathangaul276 Is there anywhere to download it? I forgot i made that comment lmao

[@chetapace79]

TANK

[@zzztidurvirus]

Eventually, these Motos can be modded to go over that 100 songs limit, up to 1000 songs. I once owned that SLVR L7, and it came with no iTunes app. Then, every Moto can install that modded iTunes 1000 song app, you just need a bigger microSD. Modding that L7 was such fun, even though its underpowered when compared to Symbian phones.

[@Unkn0wnz_anon]

How can I find the modded .jar file for iTunes?

[@zzztidurvirus]

@@Unkn0wnz_anon back then, we can use the ModMyMoto page. Now, its getting harder to find anything to mod it with. Even the CoreLet Installer is hard to find.

[@Unkn0wnz_anon]

@@zzztidurvirus i found the site, but the download links are down.. not even the internet archive has them. You know.. if you upload something to internet and delete the upload after that it still remains somewhere on the internet, but unaccessible unfortunately

[@that_scene_kid3]

cool

[@Zeldagamer9000]

"Who listens to 1000 songs?" Ok, I'll just stay over here with my 10,238 songs. Edit: now I’m up to 12,500 or so

[@mayravixx25]

Lmao same here, I have over 3k songs from Apple music. ...on my Moto G7 Optimo.

[@aidancommenting]

I have ten songs *Sad LG Q Stylo+ noises*

[@aesthet1kal]

i have 500 songs *sad iPhone 6s 32GB noises*

[@markbenjotenorio6553]

I stream

[@spicykicks3899]

16,492 songs LG V40 120 GIG Micro SD card 32GB internal

[@felixdd]

I had one of those. Still in my drawer somewhere. The speakers on this thing was LOUD.... IIRC it was so powerful it didn't have a vibro motor it just used the speaker to play a very low freq tone to vibrate the phone

[@bmhater1283]

My phone's like that, but the treble makes it loud as hell and didn't make it vibrate to low frequencies

[@luciascarlet]

Some phones actually do the opposite nowadays (I think Sony does this, but I'm not 100% sure) because they have much more expressive vibrators that can reproduce different frequencies with more accurate dynamics, so they use the vibrator to allow you to feel bass frequencies that the speaker can't play on its own. I haven't actually heard of any phones doing it this way though where the speaker is able to go so low it can be used as a vibrator.

[@Kylefassbinderful]

My fav phone for music BEFORE the smartphone era was the LG Fusic (LX550) flip phone. It had a microSD slot that could support up to 4gb. It had a nice UI for playing music, even the outside face had an LCD screen with touch-based player buttons. But it also had a built-in FM transmitter that could transmit over any FM broadcast from 88.3 to 107.9. The quality was decent if not good. I used this phone from 2006 to 2009 and even after owning an iphone X I still look back kindly on that old LG phone. If you can get one somewhere it's still a decent device to keep in the car and use as a 'pirate radio' station on the go...with a 20ft range lol

[@matthewbond5028]

I used the Slivr. It was honestly my favorite phone. It took a beating and it was super reliable shame it got stolen after 2 years of having it along with my 80GB iPod classic.

[@abdelali9279]

I really loved the RAZR V3i with iTunes because (even though I have a place in my heart for single function devices) I knew how good it was to have a single device that does it all, becuase I had a 2GB iPod Nano and an regular RAZR V3 (both black, cuz 2000's edginess) and it can be a hassle carrying specific chargers for both devices, earbuds for each device since the V3 only used some weird mini usb ones and also other devices like a Game Boy Advance and a FM radio (both needing AA's) to have a complete entertainment experience on the go (not so portable in hindsight, when you think of the bulk you end up carrying). So you had to really plan your day ahead to know where you were going, what would you do and how much free time you will have so you can see what devices take with you, or always wear cargo shorts if you knew you will need to take them all at once. Yes, how the turntables... Now I'm the old man reminiscing the times of old and appreciating the modern commodities, now you only need to worry if you have with you your charger to charge both your smartphone and the case of your Bluetooth earphones and if you don't, you know you can borrow someone else's since chargers are mostly universal.

[@mattelder1971]

I'm surprised that he didn't even mention the V3i. Apparently a lot of people don't even remember that it existed.

[@Osakarmakun]

I remember saw the phone in a magazine, after few months i bought the phone and the design was cool, 100 songs limit wasn't a problem for me at the time.

[@antonio1681]

Always enjoyed the aesthetics of this device, great video you've earned my sub!

[@MichaelMJD]

Awesome, thanks for subscribing! : )

[@BilisNegra]

Well "that device" looked exactly like any other model in the Motorola range back then. Nothing singular aesthetically.

[@Di3mondDud3]

"Exclusive to cingular" "The itunes phone didnt last long" gee. I wouldn't have guessed. Only reason i even remember cingular is the ads in NFS Underground 2

[@archgirl]

God damnit, thanks. Now I have to play NFS and I’m in lockdown at my moms... 😒😁

[@Riley_MDS]

LOL you made me remember NFS MW whenever i saw that Logo

[@SwooshX]

@@Riley_MDS YESSSSSSSSSSS

[@mayravixx25]

I'd never even HEARD of cingular until today, actually. This was my first time hearing about them.

[@magicjoybox]

Cingular is still around. They purchased AT&T, including the rights to use their name and branding, and rebranded as AT&T. The infrastructure underneath at the time of "merger" was about 80% Cingular.

[@eloy40x]

13:36 I still do. I use my flash-modded 6th Gen Classic every day. I like to download my music, and not having to rely on an internet connection to listen to it. Also, on a phone, it's really annoying when music gets interrupted by a notification or something. Plus, it helps me save battery and the click wheel is great to operate the device without having to see it.

[@fiverZ]

1:15 LGR intensifies

[@mahalisyarifuddin]

😂

[@luminumlx2604]

lmao

[@aidancommenting]

LOL basically everyone I'm subbed to is being mentioned in the comments. First DankPods now LGR

[@laikaxv1406]

Apple: requiring adapters and dongles for standard stuff, since 2005.

[@abdelali9279]

Like from 1998 with the iMac that only had a DVD player and USB ports in the times people were still relying on 3 1/2 inch diskettes

[@BilisNegra]

​@@abdelali9279 IWow, that was quite a stupid remark! (Unless it was ironical)

[@MosoKaiser]

Well, 2.5mm sockets were quite common on phones around that time, so not just an apple thing. And 2.5mm's still a regular, non-proprietary connector to boot. Back in the day when analog heaphone outs and standardized USB ports on phones weren't the norm yet, manufacturers had their own weird proprietary ports and connectors. Anyone remember the Nokia pop-port?

[@ithinkitspickingupalittleb8011]

BilisNegra I don’t think it is!

[@toaddx]

Apple: Making iDongles since 1998 (for iMac G3)

This phone always keep my attention but it was so confused hahaha, awesome for sharing the history ⚡️

[@cameronlovesevolve]

I spent hours with my friends back in 2007 sitting in a 92 Acura Integera with the subs up loud and my Rokr sitting on the dash with the 'Club lights' going. Good times!

[@martinmagija]

I modded my Motorola E398 to have iTunes and other E1's capabilities and the modders also removed the 100 song limit. The ROKR E1/E398 has awesome haptically vibrating stereo speakers that pumped out impressive bass when put on hard surface.

[@JamesnLollify]

Hey, I carry around an iPod all the time!

[@sixunity1171]

Do you not have a phone?

[@JamesnLollify]

@@sixunity1171 Yes. But my phone's speaker is broken and it won't activate. I only use it on wifi and I use my iPod for music/game.

[@sixunity1171]

@@JamesnLollify bruh, as far as i remember the ipod games were shit

[@JamesnLollify]

@@sixunity1171 No, I have an iPod Touch mate.

[@sixunity1171]

@@JamesnLollify oh i forgot those existed

[@sgal5845]

I had experience with a different music phone, the Sony Ericsson W760i, and the W995. They were amazing music phones that had given me my childhood, and I still do miss them nowadays, I still have my W760i but it doesn't work anymore.

[@montoyahans]

I had an L7 and it was pretty neat to have the iTunes in it. I actually had to download the “app” and install it with a Motorola app installer from my desktop (that was how you got new games and apps on those phones at the time). I truly enjoyed my iTunes phone a lot, nice memories.

[@thatoneuser5066]

Next: Retrospective on Newton MessagePad please

[@MichaelMJD]

If I could find one of those that would be awesome!

[@fgaudreaultcomp7276]

Great video as always Michael! Love the feel of your content, too. Keep it up! One of the best KZbinrs!

[@MichaelMJD]

That's awesome to hear! Thanks so much!

[@adultmoshifan87]

I started college in April 2006 and during the run up to it, my parents wanted to get me a new cellphone. I suggested we get a Motorola ROKR because of its iTunes support and I did not have an iPod (and never did) but instead my mom gave me her old Motorola V500. Another phone I received after that phone broke was one of my brother’s old Samsung phones, which had a few songs on it, including Lil’ Chris’ Checkin’ It Out and Jem’s Finally Woken. I’ve been using iPhones since November 2008 and shortly after Lil’ Chris took his own life in 2015, I bought 3 of his songs on iTunes, including Checkin’ It Out, as a way of paying my respects.

[@americanShurtugalEntertainment]

Honestly thank you cingular for the possibility of the iphone. They seemed key in this and we probably wouldn't have the iphone if it weren't for that exclusivity agreement

[@ozzelot3349]

I carry around an iPod! The combination of simplicity and battery life is never going to be beaten by a modern smartphone.

[@teg24601]

There was also a Razo V3 with iTunes, but it was rare in the US. Cingular bought AT&T Wireless, not the other way around, and rebranded after their parent company bought AT&T Corp.

[@MichaelMJD]

Yeah I did hear about the V3i. As for Cingular, the company they purchased was AT&T Wireless, a spinoff of the original AT&T. Cingular was acquired by "the new" AT&T. The company that was formed after SBC purchased the original AT&T and took on their name. This company then merged with BellSouth, who owned part of Cingular (as it was a joint venture between BellSouth and SBC).

[@HUNGRYCR4B]

my first phone was Motorola E 398

[@joedooley7878]

Used to want one when I was a teenager in '05

[@amnottabs]

I had a RAZR V3i with iTunes, but back then I already had a Walkman usb player plus the lack of headphone jack I think I never used this feature on it

[@GimmysT]

"Who of you walks around carrying an iPod?" Dankpods enters the chat

[@carolmuratore2526]

True

[@Mattia_22]

13:36 I do!! 😅 More precisely a Classic 7th Gen iPod with 128GB SD and Rockbox OS. It wins over Spotify just for the insane sound tweeking possibilities the system offers!

[@djfxonitg]

So I had both of these phones actually in high school. While they BOTH had a 100 song limit, I would have to say the ROKR overall was my favorite of the 2. While the SLVR was very sleek, and did compete in the looks category against the RAZR, I really loved the ROKR. It had a lot of secret tech that no one really knew about, such as dual speakers(really loud), Dual color changing LEDs on each side, special speakers that caused the vibration, etc. The 99 song limit was definitely a downside. But Ive always been a really big techie, so I was able to remove this limit and had about 500 songs on it at one point. It did sync VERY slowly, but the SLVR did sync slightly faster if I remember correctly. On the other hand, the SLVR did have very tingy speakers, which lowered the experience as a “iTunes Phone”. Overall they were great introductions before the iPhone, and I’m glad to have experienced them all! ❤️📱

[@John-qb8wh]

oh the iphone, i remember when i was a kid i would always fascinated by technology whether it's phones, games and computers but when i discovered the iphone i was crazy, i loved it so much that whenever i would see someone who had an iphone i'd check it out, go around it, experiment but as years went on my love for iphones would slowly die out, i'm an android user now and am still fascinated by older phones now

[@dpearson80808]

The Motorola Rokr was my first phone when I was 13. Saved up from walking my neighbour’s dogs every day for $30/week. I liked it a lot! The girls also liked to be able to steal it from me to play music through the built in speakers when we were hanging out. And I didn’t mind one bit.

[@msinfo32]

Amazing video! You should do the history on Linux!

[@leolaus]

That one OS that was a smol unix edit and became a unix substitute

[@askhowiknow5527]

Apple: This is THE iPhone, and you can either have it on your carrier service or not. We need people in the business world that have the humility and constitution to make statements like this.

[@konstantinoskominos2747]

Your channel is so underrated!

[@griffinlaw9367]

7:42 So this must be the iPhone Shuffle.

[@Robongiovanni]

I used the ROKR before having an iPhone. I remember that I only had one playlist on it with my favorite songs at the time, and even then I would still use my iPod photo instead when I went to the gym or out of the house. There was a workaround where you could use a computer program to stitch together songs to get around the 100 song limit for the ROKR. I never tried it, but it seems a lot of others did at the time. I remember that it was really cool that the ROKR had lights on the sides of the phone that would react to the mic, but they would only stay on for a minute max. But for the time the speakers were amazing! They almost sounded like they had bass. There was also a mode where the phone would rumble to simulate bass when playing music through the speakers, but it was terrible and delayed and you could hear the vibration motor over the music. The interface on the ROKR kinda stunk and I remember being really frustrated with it all the time, it would lag a lot, stutter, and if you put any Java apps on the phone they'd constantly crash. You were also able to load custom themes onto the phone, but because it was a slightly different OS version with iTunes the themes didn't really work as intended most of the time. Lastly, the screen was convex, so one of my friends dropped my phone and used their feet to slide it on the floor to pick it up and totally destroyed the plastic screen :/

[@keeneboy7700]

I LOVED my Slvr. Worked amazingly for 3 years!

[@TcsDomain]

I loved how moddable the Motorola firmware was, I actually put the iTunes app on my KRZR K1. later on, Motorola put out a total upgrade to their firmware that I had on the ROKR e8, no iTunes, but powerful music phone of the time nonetheless

[@raven__salem]

I had one of these phones and I thought it was the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. Took FOREVER to download songs on it from iTunes, but it was pretty cool.

[@tmacthaskydiver8310]

I definitely had this phone! It's crazy cus NOBODY I mention it too remembers or knows what it even was smh Wish I would've kept it 🥴

[@raven__salem]

I still have mine! It’s in a box somewhere 😝

[@ValgarYellowKnight]

Hey, Michael! do you ask me about the retrospective of Verizon Wireless' VCast.

[@Khyree_Holmes]

Ahh, good one!

[@daemonspudguy]

Oh God that's a blast from the past there! My family's been on Verizon for a long time.

[@HuntersMoon78]

I'm not a fan of iPhone's but I do like iPod's. I went nuts over the years buying them - I have 42 of them.

[@coffeebreakerz1266]

I had this phone and i love it. Nice RGB speaker and nice sound too

[@kyledmorgan]

I remember the controversy over Apple calling it "iPhone". Cisco already had a VOIP phone that was trademarked with the same name "iPhone" and were not readily willing to give up the name to Apple.

[@blainepalmerza]

Awesome video, Michael!

[@MichaelMJD]

Thank you! : )

[@trails247]

One phone you missed which came before the SLVR was the Motorola V3i. Since Motorola was already known for the V3 razr phone, all they had to do was port over the iTunes Software to a specialized version of the v3 Razr. This was the phone I used for a few years before making the jump to the original iPhone. It was great because I was so used to the v3 Razr from before, I bought the V3i for the iTunes integration and it was my "car phone" specifically for that reason before I made the purchase of the original iPhone.

[@Rainquack]

13:37 - Well, here I am with my Motorola phone, but also a Sony Walkman with ~10k songs. I always liked having extra storage and battery solely for music. It sounds better aswell. (tho I miss my Samsung P3, it had a way better EQ. I got Rockbox on my Walkman, but the user experience is very meh) And fandom/scene, non-commercial/niche and Bandcamp stuff isn't necessarily on streaming services, so they're not a universal solution. I have to admit that I use Spotify from time to time on my phone tho. Oh, and ShoutCAST internet radio/DI.FM which are so great for discovering new stuff, cause Spotify likes to go down a filterbubble spiral with me.

[@david_wv]

Hi Michael, can I request a video? can you do a Windows Media Center tour video? like from the first version to the very end.

[@mohammed.baig.]

so basically the iTunes phone was to throw us all off and make us think that it was the rumored "iPhone"

[@Dedicated2WendyWilliams]

i use to carry around an ipod in high school and felt great that i had 10,000 songs all in my pocket

[@Drew151617]

This was very educational! Thanm yiu very much for putting this video together! I knew there was another phone before the iPhone, but didn't know too many details on it.

[@sauwercraud]

I worked at Apple in the year before the Rokr came out. I've got shown the prototype at - of course a bar - by one of the development managers. We pretty much knew it's gonna be a failure from the get go. Everybody back then had a Razr and the Rokr was far less quality feeling. Also, which almost nobody ever noticed, the left and right audio channels were switched. Little did we know though, that the iPhone was already in planning, and the Rokr made it obvious why Apple needed to do it themselves.

[@fluffyboi974]

My friend used to have E1 in the past, and I had a E398 that hadn’t a video recording capability, and so I digged forums and flashed my phone with a ported and improved software that had all functionality of a E1(even the iTunes thing) And yes, the experience was soo good P.S If I recall right, my phone supported a 2 gigs microsd/transflash cards

[@justinianthegreatandnerd6377]

hey a fellow ut/dr fan!

[@stevemobbes]

Even if it was a failure, for me there started my Apple journey. Back in 2006 parents bought me Motorola RAZR V3i with iTunes and it shiped with iTunes installer CD. Since then I used iTunes and now Apple Music with all of my apple ecosystem: Mac, iphone, ipad, apple watch, airpods

[@tommytripp2446]

No mention of the Motorola RAZR V3i? IIRC that was the last non-Apple phone supported by iTunes. Or did I miss something?

[@kev1354]

Will it still work with today’s iTunes today

[@PhobosTK]

0:33 every palm/winME/CE PDA be like 🙃

[@Astinsan]

I had one of those motorola itunes phones. It was awesome.. 100 songs was plenty. You have to realize how fast things were moving.. two years was a long time

[@johnnyvvlog]

Loved mine. I could leave my fragile ipod home during workouts but still take my music with me.

[@thevideoclub8562]

Can you imagine sitting on the iPhone and telling people that this is what you've been working on for the past year. And then you say, Just kidding, heres the iPhone.

[@linksmith1057]

So, I think Apple’s control over the device and wrenching that control back from the carriers was the single biggest accomplishment of the iPhone. Yeah you still get the occasional carrier app on like android phones, but normally the carrier is more about reception and who I happen to pay each month.

[@ChaseMC215]

Apparently, Motorola was really upset when Apple unveiled the iPod Nano on the same keynote as the Motorola Rokr.

[@geekifychic]

I was in high school when the iTunes phone was released and one of my friends had it and I was so jealous. Oh how times change

[@mywaterbrock_isgo]

Thanks for the info of the iTunes phone I heard of it!

[@djpalmer93]

I remember a guy at school got an iPod nano for Christmas 2005, then accidentally put it in the washing machine. I tried to fix it for him but it had short-circuited. Then he got one of the Motorola ROKRs instead. Never got to use it myself but I don't think he had it for long.

[@cameronlovesevolve]

lol! was it me??

[@djpalmer93]

@@cameronlovesevolve No sorry haha

[@mndsph4530]

Motorola Rokr iTunes phone was a big hit here in the Philippines back in the mid-2000s!

[@ycuzwerec7394]

1:15 dankpods music moment

[@hp6r]

Back in those Rokr E1 days, I remember using the Sony Ericsson W800i. Actually in comparison the Motorola seemed so dated, not just because of the song storage limit, but also the VGA camera vs the 2 MP AF in the W800i and also screen quality and overall speed. However I believe Sony Ericsson wasn't as popular in the US as it was on the rest of the world.

[@dylanc2806]

DANKPODS MUSIC DETECTED

[@timramich]

Apple needs to get back to iPod business. They relaunched the touch a few years ago, but IMO it doesn't have enough capacity for modern times. Trying to increase the storage on the Classic is a horrible experience.

[@rileyswestman9693]

Ed Zander says "Screw the Nano." The Nano says "Screw you!"

[@alexanrsousa]

Oooooh I had (well... have, since I didn't throw it away) a ROKR E1. Custom firmware with patched iTunes software + using Winamp to sync + using AAC instead of MP3 to bypass the song number limitation. The speakers were amazingly loud, and the custom firmware I used managed to raise it further! I had to get a special earphone with the smaller plug because I couldn't be bothered to carry arround an adapter. I still have it stored somewhere, last time I checked the battery doesn't hold a charge anymore and the backlight doesn't work anymore hahaha

[@sai2do]

What about a Retrospective video on Nokia phones like the obligatory 3310, 3410 and other old Nokia phones? I would love to see that sometime.

[@strawberrymilkeshake]

Can you buy these anywhere? I’ve been searching for one but have never managed to see one??

[@DjangoUltra]

I had that Motorola SLVR L7 10 years ago, but I don't remember it had an iTunes player, I was played my songs with the default Motorola music player.

[@circuitsandcigars1278]

3 words describe Apple with this phone: Sleight of Hand. While folks were looking at this phone, they didn't see the iPhone coming with all it's stuff

[@jokutyyppi6751]

What do you even mean by exclusivity with a carrier? And carrier branding on phones? Is/was that actually a thing in the US? Can you even switch carriers without buying a new phone there?

[@erwynnipegerwynnipeg8455]

Great video as always!

[@brydcsd]

This was the phone I was dreaming of having because it was a hype. I loved the white candybar Moto ROKR E1.

[@TransitAndTeslas]

I’ve said this before. Had they just stuck the iTunes client on the SLVR or RAZR from the get go these would have flown off the shelves. Instead they put it on the e398.

[@KB-ib4kj]

100 songs. Wow thanks for the effort.

[@CounterStriker013009]

Can this old phone upgrade as new OS?

[@TilmanP]

I had this, the white ROKR E1 iTunes phone. What I remember is the suuuuper slow data transfer rate, a single song took something like 10 seconds. I had the ROKR E1, and did the mod to allow 1000 songs. Imaginge how long it would take to fill that.. The speakers were quite good and loud for the time period, but they don't compare well to todays phone speakers.

[@chamele0nday]

wasn’t there a version of the razr that was compatible with itunes?

[@mattelder1971]

Yes, the V3i. Apparently Michael has never heard of it because he didn't mention it at all.

[@noideac]

The SLYVR (or however you spell it) was actually my first ever cell phone. I think we got it in like Spring 2007 at reduced price on contract. The 100 song limit didn't even bother me at the time. The phone is long gone but I actually still have the MiniUSB to headphone jack adapter.

[@microdisturbia]

SLVR

[@Locutus]

Just to nitpick, AT&T didn't buy Cingular. Cingular was owned by SBC. SBC bought AT&T, and AT&T Wireless. SBC renamed themselves and subsidiaries to AT&T. Just to nitpick. Apart from that, good video!

[@MichaelMJD]

Eh, not fully correct. Cingular was actually a joint venture between BellSouth and SBC. Cingular purchased AT&T Wireless back in 2004. SBC had already purchased AT&T and adopted their name by the time the Cingular transaction happened. This is why its easier to just say "the new AT&T" as I did. I could make an entire video about this topic. And thanks!

[@weirdboo]

Ah yes, the old days when you had to pick 1 album to have on your phone or risk running out of space

[@zinussan50]

Whenever i saw the phone, this song looping in my mind 😊🎶 Black Eyed Peas - Lets get it started

[@yataclysmic]

What fonts do you use Michael mjd

[@MichaelMJD]

The font used in this video is "Prototype"

[@yataclysmic]

@@MichaelMJD Thank you!, I like your videos, I like the motorola SLVR L7, I see that one button there, also. Motorola really wasn't wrong, SLVR L7 really has silver colored things

[@eemeli7093]

@@MichaelMJD you should collab with Dankpods & KKClue

[@WolfieMar]

I Have Been Loving The New Videos :D

[@marklechman2225]

I wanted one of those iTunes ROKRs so bad at the time, but it held so few songs, it just didn’t seem worth it.

[@madzoroyal]

I had one back to 2011... The phone have RGB led on it and a bassy speaker

[@jacobmarzynski7719]

There was a third Motorola iTunes Phone, the Razr V3i, along with several other third-party phones, PDAs, and music players that could sync with iTunes. Apple removed support for those devices in later iTunes versions

[@NightMotorcyclist]

I had the ROKR and when it rang the phone would vibrate and light up while playing whatever ring tune you set up through the loud stereo speakers. At the time I had Cingular which was much better than T-Mobile which I previously had (and had a Motorola T720 then an unlocked Sony P800 which inexplicably died).