The World's First OLED Phone (Not A Smartphone) Motorola Timeport

[@charleykeenan6171]

This was one of the last products we pioneered at the Motorola Harvard Illinois site.. My wife and I worked on one of the startup lines that was sent to Mexico and China.. And do whatever you want with the antenna.. you won't break that.. 😉

[@TechThrowback]

That's awesome that you worked on it! And I haven't broken one yet 😂

[@charleykeenan6171]

@@chrislee6650 worse. It was fake and it activated a circuit that reduced the effective output by 25% when it was pulled up..

[@Slyder42]

Totally dig the new studio basement space! You guys did a great job!

[@TechThrowback]

Thanks! It's almost done, few little touchups left but it was a lot of work 🍻

[@bobrustigian4637]

Great video! Brought back memories of my 2002 Lincoln Continental. I loved this phone, it reminded me of the Star Trek communicator. When it was docked in the car, it actually connected to an outdoor antenna. Full hands free operation integrated with with the Lincoln’s Alpine stereo. I resisted upgrading this phone for years because it worked so well in the car and as a stand alone call phone. I reluctantly had to upgrade in 2013 when the sound in the flip-up ear piece became janky and couldn’t be used outside the car as a regular cell phone. I wanted to keep it as a car phone but I Sprint wouldn’t let me have two phones with the same number. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

[@terencehill2320]

I owned this model in 2001. Absolutely amazing phone but it was very expensive at the time. It cost me $500 for it. You could have gotten a Dreamcast, a PS2 and one game for each system and still be under $500 at the time.

[@H4HDJD]

Hey look he got back to the tech channel :)

[@TechThrowback]

Couple more days and it'll be daily, had to finish the studio. 💯

[@EpicFail1945]

this is legit...so happy to see a new tech throwback video up. I really love this channel ty jr.

[@cameronlovesevolve]

Also that classic motorola "beeep" when it powers up. Dads car phone did the same thing - that sound + the sound of the GMT 400 starter motor/305 v8 coming to life in our old sierra will always bring me right back to going to town as a kid.

[@ben6119]

Having those Pioneer head units was a status at the time. I had them in more than one of my vehicles back in the day.

[@matthewdropco]

So fun story, I had the time port and I loved it. A friend going through some issues "borrowed" and gave it to someone for something. I would probably still have it to this day had that not have happened. Then I got the Sanyo 4900, because you could buy a desktop charger with a usb port, then turn the phone into a always-on modem on Sprint's new 3G service. That I could connect to my Tangerine iBook (the kind that looked almost like toilet closed seats). They stopped selling the base stations and cables in the sprint stores because they didn't want people tethering the phone to their computers for high-speed interent.

[@wriddle082]

I had a Sanyo with that tethering cable as well. I remember one time I was riding to FL in my dad’s old conversion van and sitting in the back with my laptop tethered to the phone. It did ok for a while, but I would lose the signal fairly often.

[@morrislo]

Love how the new studio looks!

[@TexRobNC]

I had this! I was SO stoked to have an OLED screen. You could get a slim battery for it too, that removed that bulge.

[@stumc2223]

Yesss! Let the throwback channel begin! Love the new setup! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@fevengr9245]

Nice video! Who would have guessed that a device from 23 years ago would come so close to predicting the technology that we now take for granted.

[@thomasricke1150]

So great finally seeing a now video here JR! And so cool to see Motorola featured, they are the mobile phone pioneers. I use Motorola for a long time, right now a Edge 30 Pro - brilliant phones Keep em videos coming :) Best from Germany

[@thiagotatagiba]

Great to see new videos here! Bring some head units from Pioneer or Clarion to review!

[@itsnotme07]

Not sure why Motorola did the name that way, but it matched their 2 way pager, Timeport P935. I had a few of those 2 way pagers back then as I worked for PageNet. Never got their cell phone of the same name. Nice review...and for many a good flashback. Love the fireplace/studio!!

[@bricksfirst5584]

You seem comfortable talking about tech in your new studio.

[@jesusballesteros8499]

Thanks for the retro reminder. This was my employee phone at Verizon and still hands down has the best speakerphone of any non Nextel handset. Analog worked great to. The signal strength was amazing.

[@zoefaith120]

Gotta love how technology changed for the good... but looking how simple the old phones was. So cool.

[@cameronlovesevolve]

man i was 10 years old when one of my parents friends upgraded to this and i was blown away by that display. It was the first flip phone i went on the internet with!

[@SteveBassen]

New setup looking 🔥

[@koolaid53]

By the way, the studio looks amazing!

[@matkudinoff]

Cool like the new studio and unfortunately I remember using those Motorola's for work.

[@PeterBellefleur]

I worked at a Verizon dealer when these came out. It came from a time Motorola had so much of the market, they were cocky enough to launch sub-brands to further saturate the market. Timeport was supposed to be the "high tech" brand with the newest stuff, hence the OLED. The low end timeports were also usually equipped with such high tech innovations as a phone book that actually could store a name alongside the number. These were also used as the OEM phone in many Mercedes, BMWs and Jaguars. But of course, you couldn't just use a non OEM flashed handset in your luxury car, they were firmware locked to the specific brand, and being pre internet it wasn't easy to get firmware files.

[@TechThrowback]

Motorola was absolutely killing it back then 💯

[@michaelmahoney8887]

Motorola's are slept on devices for sure. By the way, love the new setup.

[@Seventeen76]

I still use an old ringtone, it's now commonly known as the "Tony Soprano" ringtone.

[@fomocopowersgarage7103]

Hey, we need to get together on shipping you this small stash of things I have for ya. Love watching these videos. You got me hooked on watching similar channels now.

[@TechThrowback]

Yes we do! 💯

[@riwoof]

Love the new studio! How about a tour? ☎📞📱

[@watchjaredwork1487]

New studio looks great!

[@TechThrowback]

Thanks!

[@Bliggity]

I have said this a dozen times. This was the greatest phone ever made. I currently daily an iphone 14 pro max. I would gladly go back to my timeport.

[@aaron71]

Loving the setup! And I still have that Premier DEH-P860MP with the OLED display in my Firebird. Had to replace the faceplate once as it started to show dead lines on it. Love the look of these old displays!

[@CommodoreFan64]

This was a really cool phone for its time, but you should also take a look at the Motorola Moto Fone which has an e-Ink screen, and some crazy battery life.

[@11sfr]

Did anyone ever tell you that you look a lot like that guy on that one car KZbin channel? You could almost be brothers

[@jeremyreynolds4]

Love the new studio, you should cover a palm pilot.

[@TechThrowback]

Oh I just bought a TON of them, they're coming!

[@GrandMoffJoseph]

Love the new space!

[@GrotrianSeiler]

Great video JR. I hope you continue to do these. Really interesting. Nostalgic content is always fun. Maybe you’ll consider doing some really old GPS units. I always favored TomTom, but a friend I did a lot of moto trips with always had the latest Garmin.

[@tkskagen]

My favorite phones from the past were the LG Envy and the CASIO Birage. And, I still have them!

[@100PercentJake]

LET'S GOOOOOOO

[@Seagrams]

Crazy how I learn about this channel from legitstreetcars and not your car channel lmao

[@joelkelsey7788]

The new studio looks great, will we get to see more of it in a video?

[@48Boxer]

I had that Pioneer head unit (actually the Premier version). It was actually very cool at the time but it did start failing fairly quickly.

[@Cartier_specialist]

I have a Motorola V70 around the house somewhere. It's been awhile since I saw it or used it. Pretty slick design though. It wasn't a flip phone but it was similar to a flip phone operationally.

[@TechThrowback]

The V70 was also a tank! That metal case held up great 💪

[@bazabal1]

i used to work at a major cell phone provider and that phone at the time was the hottest! it cost 249 on a two year contract!

[@themeantuber]

No wonder it was last used in 2004. That's about the time we started switching to camera phones, as they were referred to back then. Even though, in retrospect the Symbian phone I got back in 2004 could easily fit into the smartphone category. BTW, watching this on a Motorola in 2023. How cool is that? 😂

[@porovaara]

I have some old cell kit that would amaze... the nokia pre-smartphones.

[@logicn.reasoning9744]

Try showing what you're describing more. It will make the vid more engaging.

[@qball2001]

Can I use a gsm 900/1900 on T-Mobile in USA ? I have this phone but gsm

[@kerrylewis2581]

JR, Would you like my Sharp Zaurus ZR-5000 to review? I have the box, case, pen, and PDA. Perfect shape, and it's yours if you want it.

[@TechThrowback]

I'd love to! Can you shoot me an email? techthrowback at gmail 🍻

[@mylesl2890]

i remember rushing out to buy one way. back thought it was cool

[@christopherhope7623]

Ahh!! Memory’s

[@reydejesus4430]

I loved that phone

[@bobw4541]

I had this phone and I loved it I loved it I loved it I loved it it was beautiful to look at HOT !!!! phone to have and anybody who saw it loved it as well especially chicks I missed that phone I like it better than a smartphone

[@McFixStuff]

My mom had that phone!

[@watchjaredwork1487]

Hey!

[@TechThrowback]

Yo! 🍻

[@delresearch5416]

I did see a vampire source code for the OKI data. You had to have discriminator from a scanner into it so it could decode esns. It would also goto channel and dtmf decode for pin. Spread fraud among everyone not just one person. Yea motorola esn transfer was sweet you prorgrams a oldbag phone do esn transfer to do the newer startecs. It calculated the checksum to keep the esn from a transferred phone in storage. The clips towards the end where neat. you type esn in on phones keypad then it programs it into nvram. I dont see the reason for fraud after 99. Sprint had unlimited cdma for 99 a month.

[@psubuster]

Hey

[@lets-go-champ]

Doesnt this guy buys and sells rust bucket cars

[@delresearch5416]

ESN Transfer esn666

[@RickTheGeek]

I used to sell the sprint version of this at RadioShack 20 years ago!

[@koolaid53]

Hey!