The "Pocket PC" I've had in my attic for 13 years

[@mikayelkotanjyan8768]

2006 Linus-being paranoid and putting a screen protector on a digital assistor 2019 Linus- drops a 10k$ cpu

[@Oliver-bn7jt]

I wish that were me some times...

[@anoopsurej244]

Character development

[@krattah]

Screen protectors are snake oil - change my mind

[@James.Stark.Ben.Edition]

The "you know what that is? Growth." gif in reverse

[@tiaaa4115]

Wait, you're Italian?

[@CA5H3W]

Linus has no qualms and doesn't give a second thought to taking apart a 8k Red camera but the 13 year old palm pilot is where he draws the line...

[@lmaoroflcopter]

Not a palm pilot. Palm was crap! :) Compaq/HP iPAQ was king ;)

[@iwinrar5207]

@@lmaoroflcopter thats what palm lasted longer lol

[@dexterjsullen]

Sentimental value is priceless

[@fermitupoupon1754]

3Com PalmPilots were pretty dang neat. The built in mic and speaker, combined with the GSM modem it made a pretty neat not-so-smart-phone. And graffiti script was amazing once you got used to it.

[@stevefox3763]

its not a palm pilot, its windows mobile, the o.s that android was inspired by in the very beginning

[@mikes2381]

His 13 year old PDA is more responsive than my year old budget phone.

[@tanishpatki4711]

what phone do you have?

[@antonyjose9254]

@@tanishpatki4711 you beat me. I came to ask the same

[@yohVyoh]

Bet it's a budget Nokia. They so trash

[@abc123fhdi]

The iPad is 10 years old so this is barely vintage.

[@SanBest93]

not as good as my xiaomi mi a1 for $84

[@ryanmayberry7479]

“This touch screen is pressure sensitive not capacitive” *has Nintendo DS flashbacks*

[@michalvalta5231]

Consoles and handhelds were always at least a decade behind... Have you ever seen triple screen for console? Have you tried the PSVR? It's just toys...

[@startedtech]

@@michalvalta5231 how is that even relevant also triple screen is absolutely terrible for most games. Only thing it's useful for is racing and simulators. PSVR was decent for when it came out too, and at a fair price. Controllers aside, it's just as good/bad as the Rift CV1.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@michalvalta5231 every PDA and smartphone when the DS was new had resistive screens too. The DS line just stuck with it way longer. But a lot of cheaper phones even 2-3 years after the iPhone launch still used resistive too.

[@imhoriz0n727]

5:34 start menu! in the top left opposed to the bottom right! im sorry what?

[@HarissonLA]

maybe he meant phone Menu button? it was on bottom right, I still have some touchscreen device from 2010

[@supercattelephone]

I think he meant the list of all your android apps

[@juliusmakowski7665]

Came here to say that xD

[@DANGERTIM112]

@@supercattelephone the list of all apps is bottom-left for me

[@NWinnVR]

I too exclusively use my windows devices looking in a mirror.

[@TheWebstaff]

You know what you should do.. A week in the life of Linus using only (insert year) hardware only. How will he cope trying to do his day to day only using old equipment.

[@tjsmithson1598]

Have Jake do it. Or a young staff

[@xordus]

"is that all people need to know?" I don't think we needed to know any of this...

[@polymerizedrecords]

Amazing idea.

[@gryyphyn8639]

Lol yes! One week, Jake only gets a PDA as a mobile. No tablet for cheating!

[@abbyherman851]

#linusweek

[@katasiapa]

Next vid Linus will show us his 20 years old adult magazine collection from high school.

[@luxspew]

@GamingTV my thoughts exactly!!!

[@Dirty_Habit]

@DOUD featuring a rare copy of "gentlemen in sandals" highly sort after in the community

[@salahad-dinyusufibnayyub4810]

​@DOUD he has a WIFE

[@Nalianna]

@DOUD Well, to be fair, he's meeting David in the park...

[@JoHo_]

@DOUD he said that he has a WIFE, not just that he is married

[@asaboyes4332]

I love these kind of retrospective videos hosted by Linus, I think it really demonstrates his passion for technology more than a video about the latest and greatest hardware in a'lot of cases.

[@laurenzooo]

My parents still use pressure sensitive touch, when something isn't working on their iPhones.

[@Colaman112]

Don't at least some iPhones actually have some kind of pressure sensitivity sensor? Don't think it's used that much by the software though.

[@username4835]

Colaman112 Apple bought/developed 3D Touch for the IPhone 6s-IPhone X (launch). It’s a feature I loved using, but they’ve cut it from the latest gen. It has multiple levels of pressure that it recognizes and is pretty useful as a “right click” feature. I hadn’t seen it used inside any app that isn’t made by Apple.

[@niter43]

@@username4835 I'm not iPhone user, but AFAIK plenty of 3rd party apps have 3d touch functionality. Instagram (post preview in grid) and Telegram X (on iOS it's usual app I believe; message preview in chat list) come to my mind first (again, I didn't had or extensively used any iOS device and still could name two apps, so for sure there's way more). In most apps it's also available/doubled as long press though.

[@maxthompson5180]

@@username4835 yeah a 6s and up

[@PetCactusA_HarmlessLittlePrick]

Is that code for hammer?

[@MarekKnapek]

The Start menu! But its on top left instead of bottom right. -- Linus

[@FlyboyHelosim]

This video was a little cringey at times and felt kind of rushed... mistakes with info and we couldn't even see the screen half the time.

[@jacobtheultimate2895]

@@FlyboyHelosim Welcome to linus tech tips :)

[@HBPLUS]

Maybe he is using Windows Arabic or any other language written right to left their start menu is in bottom right

[@realcartoongirl]

@@HBPLUS no

[@RiverShock]

@@FlyboyHelosim It probably was rushed. I'd imagine some planned video got an unexpected delay or dropped part or something.

[@CyberPickle]

A new series we'll be calling "Stuff I found in my attic"

[@thewinter_]

I'd watch it

[@ianchroniclesyt]

Which in typical LTT fashion, would probably get one episode. Two at best.

[@jsweizston5410]

*Shit I found in my attic

[@Swarmie]

@@ianchroniclesyt or he would drop it and break it

[@FBIagentObama]

A Swarm Of Angry Bees aaaaayyyyyy

[@tylergarton2538]

So much nostalgia in this video! I learned how to build a ROM in these old pocket PCs! I spent much of my middle school and high school time timing around with devices like these! Thank you so much for the blast from the past!

[@promc7318]

9:03 "still ahead of modern devices" yes i know, you mentioned it had a headphone jack

[@jakublulek3261]

To be fair, Palm Treo 600 didn't have file explorer either, and Palm OS didn't have browsable file system at that time. I always felt that Apple took inspiration from that.

[@enshk79]

wireless headphones will change your life. Imagine having one set of headphones that you can seamlessly switch between your iphone, ipads, imac, and watch. it's literally faster than unplugging and plugging a wired jack in and out. and you're completely wirelss so you no more getting tangled or ripping the stupid thing out. any disadvantages to wireless are OBLITERATED by the advantages. it's life changing

[@promc7318]

@@enshk79 well having headphones that I don't need to change , in my opinion, negates all the benefits of wireless. I'm always forgetting to charge my stuff as is they are just going to be another reason for me to carry giant power banks everywhere also, it takes a grand total of 2 seconds to put headphones away and have them not tangle instead of shoving them in some random pocket.

[@ottersdangerden]

And it has a working battery. How many 5 year old phones have working batteries... and that thing probably thrashed the battery as well.

[@last9up]

@@promc7318 thank you for reminding me to charge my headphones

[@OneeBaka1337]

Can we talk about how responsive the iPaq is when jumping back and forth thru apps? Some smartphones arent even that responsive lmao

[@dan8ball22]

That is what I was thinking the entire video

[@Lollllllz]

The snappiness probably makes sense if we believed the rumors that WM was developed using mpx200s as a testbed since wm2002.That device ran 6.5 relatively well given the phone ran at 144 mhz (originally 132 mhz), 32mb ram and 16mb rom that couldnt fully store roms newer than wm2005 and stored some of it in the sd card.

[@bniisantos]

K

[@АлексейГриднев-и7р]

Modern Android and iOS have too much unnecessary crap running on the background, so, that's why.

[@MisterLEM0NS]

Oh god, oh no... Linus is explaining what a PDA was. Dear lord I'm getting old

[@SheeplessNW6]

Same, but now I want to find my 20-year-old Palm V and see whether it still boots

[@center4nerds]

I had a palm pilot I bought used well post what it should of been useful to keep track of appointments and notes.

[@center4nerds]

@@SegginsProductions for what they were they were a handy gadget. And it beat carrying around a paper calender, and this was still back before my phone could do much more than play snake. Although my phone after that and when I stopped issuing it was an original Nokia ngage so I don't tend to pick long term winners, but super ahead for its time tech ;D

[@konzo5942]

i had dial up on my palm, 4g before 4g. still using nokia communicator as well

[@wembley636]

You not getting old, Linus is getting desperate for videos... simple.

[@stephenwilkens3101]

Aside from the customization, my favorite part of old WinMobile and the few PDAs/Phones, was actually their handwriting recognition. It was super accurate and after clicking a text box, you could write anywhere on the screen in order to enter it as text in the box

[@pmilitary047]

Anyone know the name of the app used to change system colours?

[@CruelViper88]

You should make a series of this kinda stuff. "Innovations of the past" Ground breaking technology of today becomes obsolete in just a few years time. Love to see you review old relics from the past.

[@damodamon]

Go check out LGR for old tech reviews!

[@startingbark0356]

My galaxy s2 was once one of the best but now just an relic of the past

[@m0Smayne]

Check out LGR instead of linus twink tips copying his ideas

[@jackkraken3888]

Yes please. There are still things I think people would love to know about.

[@danialyaqub5879]

This device seems responsive af. I mean look at the usual tasks performance. No hiccups at all. Kudos to HP man.

[@SoulTouchMusic93]

And with 64 MB of ram. Now my phone has 3 gigs and it struggles sometimes. WTF do they use all that memory for?

[@riopato2009]

Even that hp ipaq was considered low end hardware and feature phone quality back in the day when iPhones and Androids were asking for 1ghz CPUs in order for their phone os to run. It wasn't until the HTC HD2 showed the full potential and limitations of windows mobile was when touch based phones was the future of PCs in your Pocket.

[@victorwu3372]

if you check back the nokia devices, they were all fairly responsive with crappy cpu and memory thanks to Symbian os

[@cunnyman]

@@SoulTouchMusic93 iOS never had that stutter issue unless you have phones with 1GB or less. Also, the reasons being Android and those fancy UI animations. Not to mention, app Devs suck at memory management and will allocate everything.

[@ixionn563]

@@cunnyman Well iPhones are very well optimized, like this device appears to be. Android is basically designed to work on any random hardware config on the market. Every single android phone is different and none of them have their own optimized OS like iPhones do. The reasons you said apply too and are even worse due to lack of optimization.

[@joshuayangg]

You know you were here early when the title changed from "Ipaq" to "Pocket pc"

[@ewmegoolies]

I had the Ipaq, it seemed like it was from 2003 or so. If Microsoft had not bailed on the platform they could have easily beat Apple to the Iphone punch by 3 or 4 years. They just needed to hang in there until data services were more widely supported by the Telcos. The apps were easy to install and there was a fairly robust collection. Imagine how the game would have changed with Apple being the Metoo in the smartphone tech race.

[@uss_04]

Title cant escape notification squad.

[@LeftJoystick]

Such a poor name for the time period

[@sriramsundar8388]

Yeah saw that. And he said "Not an iPad"! LOL 🤣

[@ekinteko]

@@ewmegoolies Not at all. Sure most "Pocket PC"s were better than the iPhone 2G, but things took a drastic turn with the iPhone 3G, 3GS, and 4. And those were all things Apple had in the pipeline for a longtime. I've used both platforms, and fiddled with the software, so I'm not just talking bs. The Windows Pocket PC 2002 Windows Mobile 6.5, was quite ancient in the underlying software (CE), and just wasn't conducive to the way modern smartphones (superphones?) are built/used/connected. So for Microsoft to dominate the field, they would have needed to be experimenting with both hardware and software of today: think AWP, Windows10 Pro, Surface Book, HP Elite X3.... but that vision needed to be acquired back in 2007. It wasn't, it took until 2010 for them to see things. By that time you had iOS 4.2 and iPhone 4, or Android 4.0.3 and Samsung NOTE, with both platforms budding off to build a huge ecosystem. It was essentially too little too late. But even worse than Windows Phone, was the effect it had on 2009-2015 competitors, like that of Palm/webOS, Nokia/maemo, Samsung/Bada, Blackberry/QNX and ZTE/FirefoxOS.

[@rajmanda9203]

Only linus watches "media" on the go.

[@EpicBunty]

well at least now we know that he used that particular device a lot, back in college... to watch "media".

[@whytho1690]

He ain't the only one. :^)

[@JennaBenna0123]

@@whytho1690 exactly i do too using public transportation

[@andrewmurphy9538]

Hey... not ONLY linus. 🥲

[@AnimilesYT]

Linus, about the screen. I think many of us know how those screens work. Or at least how they feel. They're still being sold on the Nintendo 3DS.

[@KCIsMe]

Yup and some car touch screens are resistive too.

[@megapro125]

Also machines in all work environments were people generally wear gloves.

[@ArdFarkable]

@@frain_breeze1707 No sense. 3DS is plastic and can be scratched with a coin. Vast majority of phones use glass screens, can only be scratched with sand basically.

[@startingbark0356]

Andrew R glass is Made of sand

[@ArdFarkable]

@@startingbark0356 Your brain is made of sand

[@joyphobic]

2019: I found my old IPaq in an attic *2029: I found my old iPhone Xs Max in an attic*

[@pingpong1138]

"Can you believe this didn't have 3d hdr?"

[@elpapa68]

2089: I found my old body in the attic.

[@login0false]

That's only natural. I remember when my ol' Galaxy S2 was "the shit", best of the best, only beaten by the Note. And now it's almost a relic of the past. Funny how I was dreaming of an iPhone back then (and a long time before), while slowly realizing that the new toy is just as good, if not better. Screw the "thinner is always better" manufacturer craze though.

[@djmhyde]

@@elpapa68 2119: *AI robot* i found my old human slave in the attic

[@albertcazares9092]

@@djmhyde 3022: Remains of the Singularity. Can't belive I found my previous civilization in my [REDACTED]

[@Deepspace1insight]

"Start menu! But it's in the top left instead of the bottom right" Wait, what? The start menu is in the bottom right in canada? O.o

[@extrinity]

No... I live in Canada and it is in the bottom left. I think he simply made a simple mistake.

[@korbenbutterworth3479]

XDmasterXD I think you may have missed a joke

[@extrinity]

@@korbenbutterworth3479 I though that he really was wondering. Sorry if I missed the joke.

[@jahangirmehta3997]

It should be in bottom left right as per international version ??

[@ثلاجاتمستعملة]

Its like this in Arabic 😂

[@angermanager2116]

"64 gigs of RAM" *Flips table and spits drink out* . . . Reads on screen correction. *Slowly rearranges table and mops the spill*

[@ourly]

Praveen Rajendran cringe

[@InfernosReaper]

He did say megabytes earlier in the video, at least

[@rkah6187]

Yeah, didn't catch on first, I thought 'Holy shit, 64gb? How?' Then I realised there was no way.

[@memesfromdeepspace1075]

5:49 64 megs af ram

[@FerralVideo]

I have almost that same model! Ninja edit: Those screens are transflective! They work in sunlight even with backlight off.

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

Same as game boy

[@GW2_Live]

I have a similar model, if not the same but a different colour. I havent had a charger for it in years

[@DarioDAversa]

Oh, I remember these. The nerdy beauty of having your calendar and contacts in your pocket. I loved it! You looked so PRO when you had one, it just felt awesome. One thing I do miss is, and it's not specific to the hardware, but rather the software -- is that when you used it, you were actually using your time wisely, and not just liking random, heavily-edited & filtered photos.

[@samuelislam9927]

"My stylus is missing" words of every man with experience

[@TrueRetroflection]

The struggles of using PictoChat with only a finger were very, very real....

[@curtisss]

@@TrueRetroflection how me and my brother would speak at night when we were supposed to sleep lmao

[@degamesvandennis2228]

I've still got my stylus from my nintendo ds lite and 3ds xl. Idk how I managed to do that though:p

[@retal]

Toothpick trick ^^

[@victorwesterlund4826]

If you only had a device in your pocket you could use for this demo with wireless tethering..

[@InfernosReaper]

If only...

[@ryantexada9269]

Linus briefly forgets that hotspots are a thing

[@АлексейГриднев-и7р]

Also though about that... Although that thing would have been pretty useless for modern Internet anyway.

[@cinooks]

"Media" I see you are man of culture as well ;)

[@sveinoveblix4936]

Geir er bare en av ham ham. O. M noemmmmmmange flere vill nl//komm heisann og takk til alle som herjet avdeling hei

[@niiiiiiisse]

Device in thumbnail has Windows Mobile 6.5 Linus' device has WM 5 I feel lied to.

[@pv2xeek]

Truth. I had an HTC Pro phone back in the day that came with WM 6 that I upgraded to WM 6.5. The interface is much nicer than what he showed. Plus it put the start button on the bottom left, where it belongs.

[@NibsNiven]

@@pv2xeek "back in the day"

[@gajbooks]

I had a Windows 5.0 one, used. It was great. I even used exactly the same media player that Linus did, and also Bubbles was amazing, oh and solitaire. No camera though, which was weird even for phones of the era.

[@VGamingJunkieVT]

I actually have an old Samsung Code phone, it has Windows Mobile 6.5

[@tanishpatki4711]

WM 7 was when the decline started...although 6.5 was ok for the day and age

[@TheHaiko117]

I LOVE the efficiency of any windows mobile version The fact that this thing still runs that snappy shows it Win8 mobile also ran and still runs awesome on my back up lumia 1020 (in case my phone breaks)

[@greenblack6552]

I don't like modern windows mobile OS. It's basically a locked down version of the original windows mobile. I loved the fact that I could use the file explorer to browse windows folders.

[@silvy7394]

@@greenblack6552 Uh...you can still use file explorer to browse windows folders in Mobile 10...

[@TrioLOLGamers]

@@silvy7394 yep but mobile is now a dead failed project sadly. I had a lumia 630 and a lumia 640. :-(

[@riopato2009]

Windows phone 8 was based on the same NT kernel that ran Windows 8. It was a departure from the Window Ce kernel that ran Windows Phone 7. The same kernel that Pocket Pc/Windows Mobile was based on.

[@greenblack6552]

@@silvy7394 can't verify since I don't have a windows phone anymore, but I am pretty sure that you couldn't enter windows directory or edit registery files

[@inkfree8297]

You're right about Bubble Breaker being addictive as I loved playing it on my uncle's PDA. It's fun to see a little callback to this piece of tech.

[@RazeFromWish]

Linus in the 13 years... "The Galaxy Note 9" i've had in my attic for 13 years...

[@nichitacojocea7462]

*note 10

[@MM7782]

Certainly it would not be a Note 7 if he has a attic 13 years from now :))))

[@matteoma1656]

He raided area 51 before everyone and got it early

[@Deepspace1insight]

Except it won't work so it'll be a quick video.

[@RazeFromWish]

@@Deepspace1insight probably would work better than a xs max 😬

[@daexion]

The backup battery is just there to maintain memory settings, not actually power it up.

[@realcartoongirl]

bios battery

[@thesilentcryptographer]

@@realcartoongirl so basically a CMOS battery -facepalm-

[@pixels303at-odysee9]

I am astonished that the battery still works. They have a limited life, and both of mine don't hold a charge any more. Once the battery disconnects, it is basically factory reset. If you drop the device or put it in your pocket and cause a momentary disconnect if the battery terminals, same will occur. Another flaw was that it could only hold memory for a few seconds after removing your battery. The backup battery was never meant to hold memory for long because it was so ridiculously small. There was a windows mobile upgrade which used flash storage instead of ram to store stuff, but after upgrading half of your software would not work because of a complete lack of backwards compatibility.

[@EssenceofPureFlavor]

@@realcartoongirl CMOS battery

[@Deepspace1insight]

@Jake Britton Nowadays batteries go bad, swell up, and break the device they're in.

[@techbogansmith3636]

hi Linus I'm from the Canadian Best Buy store in which you purchased that device and I'm here to let you know.......we want our charger back!!!!!

[@Amir-wv8om]

Why

[@Amir-wv8om]

And how tf best buy sold those things

[@brendannguyen7844]

Lol

[@PatriotJay1776]

@@Amir-wv8om r/whoosh

[@brendannguyen7844]

@@PatriotJay1776 Also lol

[@mikhailgregovszki7478]

I still have one of these too, they really were ahead of their time. And toward the end I think they even came out with a few "cell phones" that ran Windows Mobile or CE. These really were great for advanced users allowing us to do things on them that nothing else really could in that compact form factor. Thanks for sharing...

[@kytechnelson]

Yeah, there were cell phones that ran Windows Mobile. That's pretty much what smartphones were like pre-Android and iOS. I remember my parents had one of the phones that ran Windows mobile and they had it for a very long time. I still distinctly remember bubble breaker and elements of that UI that Linus showed. I actually found my parent's old Windows Mobile phones in a drawer one of the times I was visiting a while back, so this video brought back some memories!

[@Trasher29]

5:35 Linus the type of guy having the start menue on the bottom RiGhT

[@zakuraayame5091]

I've had my PC with the start menu in the top left for ... most of the time I've owned a PC. I can't see having it on the side, and I can't stand it being on the bottom (left).

[@AKindChap]

zakura ayame you’re disgusting!

[@realcartoongirl]

@@zakuraayame5091 youre disgusting!

[@ThatBeTheQuestion]

"If you want to know anything about 3-day vaginal cream, there you go." -Linus, 2019

[@BlitzPSH]

THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR, 3 DAY VAGINAL CREAM.

[@ricardorosas8500]

@@BlitzPSH which minute?

[@heartdiskdrive8242]

Free of charge

[@ThatBeTheQuestion]

@@ricardorosas8500 10:37

[@rajsoniam]

apple: we don’t have space for headphone jack mobile desktop: hold my button that does nothing

[@PivotCrocodile]

actually funny wtf

[@krisyannuruha5147]

It's not really does nothing.. Linus just didn't assign anything on that button.. You can custom it for open some app or does some function if you want on tbe setting

[@Deepspace1insight]

@@krisyannuruha5147 like a bixby button worth having.

[@PixelSheep]

@@Deepspace1insight 😂😂😂that burn

[@mpordympordy]

im wheezing 💀

[@johnbelli9390]

I have one of those in my drawer at work, I wrote software for it and we sold it in a big otterbox for industrial use. We switched to trimble products once otterbox stopped selling the boxes and HP stopped selling the iPAQs. That connector has USB and RS-232 pins as well as DC IN. 240×320 (QVGA) resolution. You can mod the cradle with careful soldering to add a serial port pigtail. The great thing about Windows Mobile was that is was a subset of Win32, so you could write a program that used the same program code but different resources, and build it for both Windows Desktop and Windows Mobile, with very little conditional compilation. I did one where I only had to exclude the tooltips from WM and exclude the orientation switch from Desktop.

[@OLBastholm]

I'm getting old... My dad had several PDAs, and eventually got some with phone capabilities built in(!), so I sometimes played games on them. In my head Windows Mobile was the coolest thing ever! EDIT I played Bubble Breaker ALL. THE. TIME. This is so nostalgic!

[@MrAranton]

Well, I look at this and compare it to my first computer; an i386 with 20Mhz, 2MB of RAM and 110 MB HDD. It ran Microsoft DOS, Windows 3.0, Internet was not a known quantity at the time and it was actually designed to run software from a 1.2 MB 5.25'' floppy disk; the kind that actually was floppy unlike the much smaller and very not floppy 1.44 MB 3.5'' disks.... Boy did I waste a lot of time on that very, very first Sid Meyer's Civilization.

[@echonomad94]

I played the ancient version of bubble breaker. It’s called jawbreaker on windows mobile 2003

[@h3xd3m0n9]

Age of empires was available and I still have on my Toshiba e800

[@joannaquanttumphysics]

Crazy bubbles was even better. They had at a few really good games back then.

[@rockydavie]

in 2008-09 one of my friend bought something like this from HTC. Back then HTC was famous for these quality things.

[@viduranisal]

@Conor HTC was actually the ODM for almost all PDA brands, like all HP, Palm, Dell Axim were manufactured by HTC for their respective brands. Even my own HP iPAQ h2200 was made by HTC with codename HTC Greatwall, so I researched quite a bit about the company back in the day even with limited internet we had 15 years ago :D

[@spud4242]

exactly. i worked for Compaq and then HP when they took over. the ipaqs were branded HTC. mine is the Roadster Hx4700 or 05 or 10 depending on where in the world you were. the Roadster would have been the first smart ph if HP had not decided against it. they have a sim card slot, or a place where it should be . mine is still going strong.

[@KyleMcNally]

I had the HTC Titan (Sprint Mogul) (2006ish?). It's what got me into hacking my phone, back when we called rom developers 'Chefs'. Before that I had a Dell Axim x3 (2004ish?).

[@lightwavemusic617]

i have that model lol. i use it as a music player with a fat32 formatted 128gb CF card XD still works great :P

[@metalheadmalta]

lol1 So do I !!!!

[@eduardoavila646]

Wtf? It recognizes 128gb?

[@brenj]

@@eduardoavila646 I need this question answered... I myself have used devices which only say they support 32gb, 64gb etc.... But have managed to use a card with double the capacity. I suspect that the controller on the card is what gives us this ability.

[@FlyboyHelosim]

@@brenj In some cases, if it's anything like laptops/desktops, manufacturers say a device can only support up to X amount of capacity if that's only what a certain storage medium is available up to at that time.

[@DJoA]

well, i have/had it too, i used it with TomTom gps software :)

[@ANiMOSiTYZA]

It all makes sense now. Linus "Media" Group ;-)

[@Artyomthewalrus]

#LinusSexTips

[@Mysterio2243]

Difference after 10 years. Linus: "From Painter to building the biggest tech channel on KZbin". Me: "Switches from WoW to WoW Classic"

[@farguc]

worth it

[@Munden]

Should have made an open mobile hotspot from your phone

[@zteaxon7787]

Yea I really want to see the internet experience.

[@Apex8r]

Kappa I remember it not being too bad. The Windows phones from 07-10 were able to write on the screen and convert text - used it all the time. Also the gestures with the pen. I still have my iPaq, 2-windows phones (a Mogul), n something just like the iPaq but I can’t put my finger on what it is. Curious to find it now👍

[@ZK-APA]

Linus: puts a screen protector because its worth 500 Also linus: a 6 figure priced camera? Lets open it up shall we

[@dexio85]

Somebody behind that camera was learning that day how to focus :)

[@vegguid]

5:35 ummm the windows start button isn't normally in the bottom right. nice

[@AndiKola]

Linus being linus.

[@Killofgamersdoom]

^^

[@XFourty7]

"Has this guy even used windows before?" would legit be an honest question... :/

[@ahmadgzail9]

well he is technically right cuz windows button depends on the system language , in English its bottom left other languages its different

[@XFourty7]

@@ahmadgzail9 What language does he speak? lol...

[@superjare23]

When I was little I've always wanted one of these! My Dad had one but when I got older I realized how useless it was nowadays.

[@TheToMiToX]

I had one my dad just threw to me after he got a new phone, it was pretty cool back then, supreme mp3 player.

[@JanSeewald]

No you used it wrong, it was pretty awesome. Showing friends videos on the go was awesome! For real!

[@VeeAyyDee]

I actually use one of these right now. Web browsing and youtube playback is still possible.

[@steakikan]

@Khaffit i play that bubble game too on my father dopod, that one is very addictive game

[@swedishbatman]

Why didn't you setup a wireless hotspot to connect to the internet?

[@pingpong1138]

I thought this to

[@elgurideparana2796]

@@pingpong1138 he even had the phone in hand

[@tonystechchann]

If it were me I'd yank the old router out from the attic too and just quickly set that up if need be

[@juliancumming6893]

@@elgurideparana2796 I think some devices don't support WPA hotspot, only wpa2, but one without a passcode should work so yah I'm with you

[@DekuNEKO21]

Because it’s rushed crappy video I guess.

[@MrKibblezWorth]

Just opened my cupboard draw and oh my, found my AXIM Dell X30 PDA released in 2004. I agree the game for poping the bubbles was fun :P

[@emilschurr7533]

There is also an flight simulator you can install on that thing I used to play, I think its called Leo's flight simulator or something like that ;-D

[@varzainbeci]

@@emilschurr7533 I had a samsung i780 with windows mobile 6... had a lot of emulators installed on it... I remember playing final fantasy 7 on a psx emulator....

[@Plainapple287]

>you’re not gonna get away without hearing from our sponsor me: just closes the video.

[@JeFi2]

Or you can use the SponsorBlock extension.

[@user-yd6bo6xo7w]

Yes,you will get away

[@erwinkingston6472]

Robert Jansen R/woooosh

[@melovesblues]

Good old days when tech was made to last, not die as soon as its guarantie expires.

[@TooBokoo]

But Linus' first handheld died, too. lol

[@abersan6520]

Yeah the good ol days when tech was clunky, proprietary hardware made replacements a nightmare and support was garbage for the same reason... the good ol days

[@fullmetaljacket7]

Abe S oh boy. The proprietary battery charger connectors. Every single phone and device had a different one. The "good old days", indeed.

[@shanepotter4635]

And they probably didn't come up with the brilliant plan to shove updates to it until it was bogged down an wouldn't boot anymore forcing you to buy a new one. (still don't know how that isn't like the ford dealership coming to your house 2 yr later an pouring sugar in your gas tank but hey what do i know)

[@fullmetaljacket7]

Shane Potter having the option to keep using an outdated OS that can't run most apps properly isn't a good option also. If you don't like this whole "upgrading" idea you should stay away from technology.

[@MaverickBlue42]

"the start button is in the top left instead of the bottom right" What version of windows have you been using all these years Linus?

[@absalomdraconis]

But you know, I bet there's an option for that.

[@chicken_stewer5432]

You can make the bar onto the side of the computer screen instead of the bottom.

[@shetah8039]

The Hebrew version. Writing is right to left and everything else is also backwards. Including the "Start" button.

[@godschild5587]

You can change the location of toolbar.

[@Deepspace1insight]

@@godschild5587 in the English (all variants) the start button is always on the left of the task bar if positioned at the top or bottom of the screen (without 3rd party software).

[@reeseyme9613]

now, fast forward to steve jobs keynote: "its an ipod, a phone and an internet communicator....."

[@michalvalta5231]

Yeah, funny, how good ol' Stevie "invented" this when it was literally years old... I also had one of these back than... It was hilarious to watch everyone "discover" that apple "invention"... :D Steve jobs was like the most high profile scammer ever. :D

[@farhan007]

@@michalvalta5231 ya, Steve Job isn't a inventor. He was a CEO and great marketer. He just signed off on the actual engineers' designs and bought the company that invented the capacitive multi-touch screen.

[@АлексейГриднев-и7р]

@@michalvalta5231 Apple never invents new stuff but in makes already existing stuff actually usable.

[@kainenable]

I had a windows moble pda as well. The iphone was lejit waaaay ahead of my pda at the time. There was allot of actual innovation that apple did with the iPhone with the touch screen, OS, graphics acceleration, interface. They did the same things, the iphone just did it much much better.

[@pgsxx88]

Hearing resistive touch screens explained like they’re VHS tapes make me feel old

[@Zambrano2199]

Remember those loud tapping noises now from theses things.

[@riopato2009]

Back then capacitive touch screens were useless with stylus pens and people who thought they knew technology never considered that they could merge a digitizer with capacitive screens.

[@BeesonsCars]

I remember when almost EVERYTHING was a resistive screen besides like the original iPhone and iPod Touch. Capacitive felt so revolutionary.

[@joaogrrr]

Linus Sebastian: Opens Red Camera worth thousands of dollars Doesn't open 10 year old PDA because "it's sentimental"

[@kuffo09]

At least he shows you that here are some things money can't buy. Sentimental Value > Monetary Value.

[@justriggz1369]

Should've used the wifi hotspot feature from your Note 9

[@ArquerO53]

That feature is only compatible with WPA2 as well, making it incompatible.

[@stoptexting]

@@ArquerO53 you can change that or remove the password making it possible every device use it

[@ArquerO53]

@@stoptexting You can't use anything other than WPA2, I know because I have a Note 9 and tried it. Doing it with no password is probably a no-go as well as Linus' phone contains sensitive work data.

[@TheSandowS]

@@ArquerO53 You really think it is possible to hack into his phone with hotspot feature and it would happen in 1 hour (max) it would take to test this pocketPC?

[@ArquerO53]

@@TheSandowS No, I don't think so. It's not about being super paranoid about that, it's that the other businesses they work with are very stringent about data security in the contracts they have with LMG. Red tape and bureaucracy is a pain, but you risk damaging your professional relationships if you "slip".

[@IraQNid]

Cool little Pocket PC. "Ring...Snitching on neighbors since 2019"

[@feynman9959]

Linus seemed like the type of person to use an iPaq since the very beginning.

[@Trapper64]

You should upgrade it to Windows Mobile 6.

[@henrylee8366]

Camera focus is ALL OVER THE PLACE except the screen itself.

[@sethpeters2087]

Love this video! I actually still have that exact same Pocket PC. I used to store and update Excel spreadsheets on mine. Takes me back. Those devices were ahead of their time.

[@StephenMatrese]

I had a palmpilot in 2001 I used pencils when I lost styluses I also had a pocket PC cell phone in 2004. So, I got my first PDA more than 18 years ago

[@MotoCat91]

I know right, I had an iPAQ just like Linus only before HP bought it out. So COMPAQ iPAQ 3630 released in April 2000, though I got mine around 2004 as I preferred to save my $10/wk pocket money for buying gadgets instead of going to movies after school.

[@seidijr]

@@MotoCat91 I miss my iPaq 3670 with CF Card Jacket. Great device series made by Compaq, created by HTC.

[@AsbjrnHoffskov]

Palm Pilot with monochrome screen and a whole new alphabet to learn how to write. And the cradle used serial. Yup, I'm that old...

[@HeadPack]

Same here. Sony Clie 70 from 2001. Still runs. They were quite innovative. Often thought what might have happened if Sony had put cell phone capability in those. Might have beaten Apple to the punch.

[@uberDoward]

A headphone jack, you say? Those are getting hard to find!

[@iljekoangeloguno1636]

Like Galaxy Note10

[@sorawisdom6516]

like the iPhone 7

[@mauriceh7558]

chinese made phones still have m and alot of them perform really well

[@realcartoongirl]

no you can still find them in wires

[@andrive]

Sadly

[@HoloScope]

Yay I can finally watch por- I can finally watch pork on the go

[@IngwiePhoenix_nb]

Trust me, I did _that_. Poor experience... :/

[@user-mc5xr9ku6x]

Deku! You

[@HoloScope]

@@user-mc5xr9ku6x Hey!

[@dickr9345]

Be better of making a flip-book

[@Arbiter099]

Welcome back to Porkin' Across the USA with Jim Haggarty, today making a special detour to Canada

[@TutorialNerdzzz]

It has a unique feature modern phones don't have, a file explorer, Android has it since ever or at least after Android Market got introduced

[@LyricsFred]

He said some devices

[@ninjanippledog725]

He literally said "most flagship phones" not all

[@michalvalta5231]

Of course Android has it since the very beginning... I am sure he was refering to the poor Apple plebs... :D

[@nicko9799]

@@michalvalta5231 oh mate apple have had a file Explorer by the name of Ifile before android even took off

[@vanyasphonecollection4074]

@@michalvalta5231 poor disgusting android pleb Apple is so much better than your garbage phone

[@686Prism]

HP engineer: "remember that guys, its the last product we sold that actually worked"

[@brianhilligoss]

G K damn only hurts because it’s true

[@lichbanelb]

They changed the title. Previously, it was "My ANCIENT "Pocket PC" Retro Review"

[@ethantorres4061]

yea

[@nickseybold4473]

Hair still hasn't changed from the time you got it untill now...

[@frankb5728]

You'll wish you had his hairline in 10 years. maybe.

[@mm-vv2de]

nobody cares how many likes you ve gotten now or before, they dont mean anything

[@maximilianlindner]

You destroyed with you like hype edit... you destroyed it!

[@darthbiker2311]

Love this. I still have my old iMate Jama and the O2 Atoms that I bought for me and my sister. Their batteries are already bloated but if you plugged them in they still worked. I even managed to install Android Froyo on my O2. Really good times.

[@hubertnnn]

Modern phones: dont last more than 2 days on a single charge Ancient phone: still works after 10 years Linus: "Somehow this lithium-ion battery is still running"

[@eduardoavila646]

Pda*

[@jincyquones]

That thing is probably drawing significantly less power than a modern smartphone.

[@Deepspace1insight]

Technically IMO phones today are more PDA than phone.

[@jasonbrown467]

most pda's didnt have cell phones built into them, but the ones that did we called smart phones. the earliest one i can remember was a phone module that would plug in where that flash memory would go, kinda like sliding a gameboy game into the og gameboy but it had a tiny rubber antennae i think that poked out the top, maybe back in 1998-2001 or so

[@Trey112187]

Dude. Don't advertise ring. Especially that app! Neighbors by ring gives local law enforcement access to all of your cameras WITHOUT asking you when they do it!

[@noahlail4018]

I'm sure it's in the print somewhere. That is interesting though... glad to know

[@Trey112187]

@@noahlail4018 I'm sure it is, however, the police don't need to ask you first before using them

[@eduardoavila646]

I mean if you dont do any doggy or suspicious thing i dont think you should worry about it anyway

[@Trey112187]

@@eduardoavila646 I'm sorry, but did you just say that as long as im not doing anything illegal that I should be fine forfeiting my fourth ammendment rights and my right to privacy? How about no. Say the cops are called because you're being too loud, your ..wife, we'll say, just happens to be loud in the bedroom. The police treat these as domestic disturbance calls. Given the significant amount that these calls can vary, anything from loud music to domestic violence or worse, they treat them as high priority calls. Standard practice would be to respond to the call as quickly as possible. Now, if you have the ring surveillance system throughout your house, they could simply pull up your cameras without asking and take a peek. On the bright side, the police can see that the disturbance is nothing serious, great for them, on the other hand, they are now watching as you have sex with your wife. This situation is simply the most benign example I could think of, there are many more, including the one where police could abuse this power. Personally, I feel that this sets a dangerous perecedent, one that could lead to far more invasive practices. Even if you are simply having a loud dispute with, let's say this time, same sex partner and, well, the responding officer isn't fond of your 'unconventional family'. Normally charges would not be filed as the officer usually has to be there for a charge of this nature, however, if he just looks at the cameras and sees that you are indeed having an escalating argument, they now have permisssion to enter the premeses, which who knows how this could escalate. It could end up with a citation or it could be nothing; it could also end with one or both of you being arrested or worse.

[@EmilSharaf]

Damn I loved bubble breaker on my IPAQ Voice Messenger

[@epicenter713]

Oh some of these things were great. I had a PocketPC with in-built WiFi, leaving the CompactFlash card slot free for an IBM Microdrive, like the first iPods used. That gave me a nice storage capacity, supplemented by a cheap SD card in that slot. Naturally, it was quite Phat compared to a modern smartphone, but that made it comfortable to hold. I used to overclock it and turn the screen brightness down a little to get decent battery life. I was even able to stream MPEG4 video files over the network with it. It ran SimCity 2000 great, too- unfortunately that crashed frequently and I never really found a solution to that. The resistive touchscreen means you can use pretty much anything as a stylus, so I generally used a mechanical pencil with the lead removed. Felt really natural.

[@siqwithit]

Is anyone really surprised that Linus was and probably still is “that guy”?

[@awesomeferret]

He was impressed that I had him sign an LG V20, so no, I would not be.

[@Dgeigerd]

I found one in good conditions in the electronics trash. Man that thing is awesome! I have a Compaq iPAQ btw

[@mogelzz]

makes me happy that they brought back the hadphone jack and the sd card reader for the note 11

[@user-tm3fz7qx3s]

I can't tell but is this a joke?

[@KidTonyGaming]

@@user-tm3fz7qx3s it is, he's basically saying this is a note

[@user-tm3fz7qx3s]

@@KidTonyGaming OH! Thanks! This is funny.

[@BAdventures]

A friend use to show off his PDA back in the day. Couldn't replace a laptop but was a cool gadget. I enjoyed this video, really shows how far tech has advanced 😎👍

[@PerfectDarkcontrol]

Bubblebreaker ... sweet memories :D It was really addictive^^

[@mikk150]

I think da best game ever

[@BonoboAxMonkey]

Lost hours and hours to that damn game!

[@LittleShmuplet]

That first statement rings incredibly true Linus

[@Igorrr3k]

Can we take a moment to appreciate the amazing job LTT team has done on the studio? Production value is so high on this channel!

[@igloo2962]

Production value is high, yet dumb mistakes are made.

[@L3ON360Z]

@@mokubakaiba1751 good times.

[@bbwlc]

Yes...I saw lots of iPaqs, Palm and Sony Clies being used when I was in pharmacy school as well back in the day...this really brings back memories of me and my Palm Zire 71 circa 2003.

[@Rebelnightwolfe]

It's called resistive touch, Linus. You failed to teach that.

[@kyu4662]

bruh its a furry

[@AndrewNicholsSeattle]

It's also not pressure sensitive. There aren't levels of pressure that are detected. He's just not pressing it hard enough to activate the touch matrix under the screen

[@iuploadsometimes]

Nintendo Touchscreens intensifies

[@Banom7a]

its called resistive touch because it mainly resist your touches

[@amdintelxsniperx]

hell back then the waicomm ones were amazing optic sensors

[@miketrinidad7408]

3:34 "It is SOOOO THICC" -Linus, 2019

[@ilcapitano9915]

@mshesh16 ikr

[@MercAB3]

> Windows Mobile > Ancient (stares at Dell Axim x51v, then stares at Palm m125) Shall I send you my Palm m125 to review?

[@headcas620]

oh baby. i found an x51v at work. played bubble breaker on it. shit was cash

[@rainmannoodles]

I owned an x51v in high school; I saved up for quite a while to afford it. For the time, it really was an amazing device.

[@DuneRunnerEnterprises]

Oh,my,Axim - now, that's ring a bell !!!!

[@Len_M.]

I had an x51v with GPS. I loved the Aluminum Case I had for it.

[@joesterling4299]

Axim X3i. Posted about it already, so I won't repeat everything. Loved this thing for several years, back in its day.

[@jasb78]

I still own my HP Ipaq HW6515 and kept it in an otterbox. Still in mint condition, still works, and I have 10 spare batteries for it as well as docking stations and all the other accessories.

[@ritzmat]

I'm guessing the "media" Linus is talking about is the same "media" for which I'll be buying a VR headset

[@MarcosCruz-xe7vv]

* Wink Wink

[@mfyamato]

wow need to use dongle for charging while data transfer... futuristic.

[@Daruwuin]

another thing this thing has that modern devices don't, Headphone jack *cough* Note 10 *cough*

[@eduardoavila646]

Ipaq >>> note 10

[@realcartoongirl]

disgusting Notes 1O

[@brekmister]

Bubble breaker...that was a throwback from when I was playing on my father's Compaq Ipaq Pocket PC

[@virtualomar]

what's the point of the video if we can't see the phone's interface properly? Obviously, screen recording isn't an option but you can sit down, set the phone on a table and have an over-head shot.

[@FarrFromPerfect]

Look up WinCE. Half the world still runs on it.

[@fenn_fren]

It's not a phone lol

[@RailfanSrikrishna]

Haha Changed the title from my 13 year old IPAQ review(not iPad) to my ancient pocket retro pc review

[@pawnm0v3]

Only ogs remember the unedited titles.

[@player1_fanatic]

Remember reading books on my father old PDA in early 2000's.

[@WilliamStonerock]

My first ebook was on a Sony Clie PEG-SJ22 PDA...in 2001!

[@Devo_gx]

I think I used a Handspring Visor as my first eReader. I know I read "War of the Worlds" on it

[@SavolX]

Remember reading books?

[@dennisfahey2379]

The amazing thing is what "came out of" that effort. Windows Personal Assistant and Phone ran on Windows CE - their realtime embedded OS. Writing and app for it used the standard Visual Studio path with a simple "target" addition. The same app on the desktop made the phone version with the only thing to deal with was the screen capability differences. Way ahead of its time. You use PlatformIO to do that now but this was 1998. This also was the first tablet/touchscreen effort and made way for the Surface. Several companies made the PDA also a phone - below the iPhone, but after the Palm Pilot (Q-Phone) and the Blackberry. What was really special was its Office integration. Outlook on this PDA was connected to your desktop Outlook. Word, Excel, Powerpoint files all "sync'd" the the host when you docked (this was pre-WIFI). Really, had Microsoft embraced the Internet and not fought the momentum, they could have had another dominant play on their hands. They bought the leading cellphone company - Nokia to do so but something just did not jell.

[@mustardlord6928]

Resistive touchscreens are just old 3d touch. Why we goin back in time?

[@jincyquones]

Resistive touchscreens aren't pressure sensitive.

[@MarianKeller]

@@jincyquones They are, actually. But they can't recognize multiple touch-points, which made them obsolete for most modern applications.

[@TheJunky228]

many don't but I have used several that did recognize multiple points. My windows 98 laptop touchpad could to gestures like pinch to zoom, the pioneer radio I put in my car has a resistive touch screen and I can zoom in the map view using pinch instead of buttons too

[@MarianKeller]

@@TheJunky228 Your laptop touchpad was capacitive. Capacitive touch isn't a new technology, it was just not frequently used for touchscreens, as it was more expensive to implement transparently. Resistive touchscreens can, by design, only recognize one input at a time, however, it seems like some manufacturers segmented them, so one screen could recognize one input per zone. Maybe that's what's going on with the pioneer radio.

[@temx7526]

Mr. V it was a joke but ok fredo

[@joonaslaakkonen8096]

Dont give apple ideas for a name for a bag IBAQ.

[@Gleekjunkie]

Dude I started out with a Handspring, then graduated to a Sony Clie. Sony's PDA used their long skinny memory sticks I loved my PDAS they were the best!

[@hyper_focused_man]

It's *epic* that this device still start and functioning as it should. I love old technology, back in the time (in the 90's...) they really built technology/devices to last. BTW: These "back in time" videos is really interesting. Do more of these.