When Phones Were Fun - BlackBerry's Flip (Before The Flop)

[@mattythetechy1]

To this day, no other mobile creator has the vocab that Mr Mobile has. Well done.

[@b-rok7174]

Every video this guy does is perfection! My all-time favorite KZbin channel. Not favorite tech channel. Favorite of all categories. This guy is the best!

[@avinash_1341]

You must be more of a literature fan than a tech fan.

[@mattythetechy1]

@@avinash_1341 both since I run a tech channel.

[@Farhan_049]

I actually come here for that! I love how he speaks. Sometimes, even learn a new word or two.

[@kcnairnair7299]

You said it. Crystal clear!

[@crackberry]

This video gives me all the feels... Thanks for all the CrackBerry and CBK Love! What a fun era. ❤ And that shoutout at the end... I don't have any kids, so helping to bring MrMobile into the world is maybe my fatherly achievement? Does that mean you inherit all my things? 😂

[@JustTomfoolery]

“Kevin out”

[@rico4you]

Hey Kevin...the rumour has that the next BlackBerry movie Part 2 will star you CBK and Mister Mobile ! Let the GOOD TIMES Roll!

[@mohammadsalah3319]

I am waiting for the next Blackberry video as much as I am waiting for the next Blackberry phone to buy it ..... Is Blackberry Key 2 still usable in 2023 ?????? and is there any hope that something like the Blackberry Passport Silver edition will ever be available again with the blackberry software but able to use all the ordinary google apps 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@TheMrMobile]

LoL - you already "gave" me your blue BlackBerry Classic, so I'm not sure what else I could ask for!

[@crackberry]

@@TheMrMobile Hmm... so that's where that one is. I kinda want that back! LOL

[@Hppyzmbie]

As a 40-year-old that worked at a Cell phone accessories mall kiosk in the 90's, I absolutely love this series!

[@ymtzlgn]

I was in high school in the UK at the time and I remember the obsession behind Blackberry and BBM. Anyone with an iPhone was a social outcast, and Android? Never heard of it. I also remember that one week in 2011 where every single blackberry failed due to a server outage. The speed at which my classmates abandoned their BlackBerrys and moved straight to iPhone and WhatsApp still blows my mind. Lovely episode Michael, you’re my favourite tech KZbinr by a huge margin

[@kaitlyn__L]

Haha, I was just leaving a similar comment. Indeed, my schoolmates were annoyed at me with an iPhone because they had to pay to text me, unlike their BBM friends and family. After that outage a lot of them asked (in a cafe on our lunch break) to learn about how mine worked. Clearly Apple was paying attention, since iMessage had that social role today.

[@ymtzlgn]

​@@kaitlyn__L True, and Apple had some major carrier deals back then. Android was pretty much nowhere, which is a shame because it's always nice to have more variety

[@reanukeeves2k77]

I remember it being mostly a thing for popular girls at my school. Most of us guys didn’t bother, and still rocked our pre-android LGs/Samsungs. iPhones were for the few rich kids, until around the 3GS/4 when they became more mainstream.

[@sn0wt1ger]

i remember this too and there was a resurgence years later when BBM released as an app for Android and iPhone but it never fully managed to capture the same hype again sadly

[@s0nicfreek]

Absolutely loved my Pearl. I got so good at typing with that incredible keyboard I could tell if I made a typo without looking. Great video as always!

[@TheMrMobile]

SureType was underrated!

[@KengCheong]

I love your “When phones were fun” series. I used to work for a Telecommunications company in the UK, and your series just brings back so much memory.

[@baoquoc3710]

When Michael released a When phones were fun episode, as usual, a flow of nostalgia that I both did have and didn't suddenly running strong around my mind, making me feel melancholy of an exciting era of mobile phone history, thanks Michael, you made my day!

[@hellslayer]

Very few tech reviewers delve into the past and future of technology like Mr Mobile. It's like watching a documentary. Thank you Mr. Mobile!❤

[@Rafa-Silva-Alt]

Another really well-put video with a lot of nostalgia on how things were back then. Thanks again, Michael, I absolutely love this series and remember my old pals that were eventually left behind in theirs dues.

[@robertostefanowicz9749]

When you said "these photos have a 2010 vibe" you gave me flashbacks of 2010 in London when I was trying out those phones in showrooms that was a good year. Thanks for bringing back memories brother ❤️💯. I bought a nokia e55 though... Best phone I've ever had and it had the same sure type layout

[@samgunarathne5853]

No matter the brand...I just love this series from MrMobile.... Pure nostalgia...

[@AmadeusAlmighty]

I genuinely cannot express how much I love your tech videos. You put so much thought and effort into your presentations, I cannot miss any video you post. Thank you, Mr. Mobile.

[@AkshayDhargave]

I kid you not when I say I literally cried myself to sleep when I read BlackBerry was scrapping the BB10 OS. That OS was just so good.

[@Chairman-Mao]

Blackberry will always have a special place in my heart...Its very sad it was unable to maintain it phone business

[@FrancoisTHX]

Even being only 26, I still remember that the first two phones I was dreaming to get as a kid were a Blackberry Curve and Motorola Razr. They were the ultimate "grown up" phones.

[@fitzworld18]

Not going to lie, I miss the blackberry keyboard til this day. I have never been as productive on any other phone as I have on a BlackBerry.

[@fleetadmiralmatteo4123]

I love this series, and there is no phone I've loved as much before or since my Blackberry Bold. There was a unique magic to that device. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane.

[@bwold9138]

I still miss my blackberry passport. My favorite phone, loved the size,the keyboard and feel in the hand. Really durable too.

[@Mechimmortal]

I love these videos. You are very thorough and cohesive. I really miss the Blackberry days... Even the Evo 4G days. Simpler times. It wasn't that long ago, but seems like so much has changed since.

[@tev866]

I remember when my mother got a Blackberry Curve 8330 for her birthday one year. She didn't use it much, but I remember being so jealous as a young tech geek. I distinctly remember watching a KZbin video at a restaurant and felt like I was living in the future.

[@gg_vard]

I love this series, how it captures the social and personal aspects phones, especially older ones used to have

[@breyyn]

The BlackBerry Style is still one of my all time favourite smartphones to this day.

[@camillecosc765]

« When phones were fun » is an amazing series of content, and the way you are thinking (philosophing?) about smartphones, our attachment to them, and how they are directly linked to our way of thinking time, is just amazing! Congratulations from France from a once Blackberry user and lover!

[@herroncomm]

I'm loving this series. I notice it's light covering the Windows Mobile world, and maybe that's coming soon. My favorite phone *ever* was the Motorola Q. I still miss mine. Windows Mobile 5/6 was so hackable and had so many apps.

[@vvvios]

Fun fact, at one point Blackberry controlled 43% of the smartphone marketshare.

[@TheMrMobile]

The bigger they are ...

[@jooei2810]

@@TheMrMobile Nokia…

[@vincentferreira1135]

Fun…er fact? Idk. Anyway, at one point they used to own more than 50% of the smartphone market. They were EVERYWHERE.

[@LXNL]

@@TheMrMobile are we saying that apple is on the clock? 👀

[@ken2dal]

One thing I loved on backberry was the ability to search in songs and the ability to suffle the results.

[@idohearthatersdgk]

Blackberry was awesome with the Z10 and Q10. I absolutely loved the z10 since I could sideload apps and have that fantastic blackberry keyboard and messaging app that kept everything organized

[@nordic-chan]

BB10 is still my fav mobile OS ever. I used my Passport up until it's outdated TLS certs wouldn't allow it to browse the web anymore.

[@aarjavmehta3806]

Z10 was such a great phone. Gestures way back at that time, the BB Hub for all messages from all apps, the extra button between volume keys, the general smoothness of BB10 OS, omg I miss it so much

[@Johnny_Socko]

@@nordic-chan I was a webOS man myself, but I never saw BB10 as competition -- rather it was another elegant alternative to the iOS/Android juggernaut. I wish either one had lasted longer.

[@JD86Vintage]

My blackberry pearl 9100 was the best work phone I ever had. I think I kept it for three years... Which aside from my titanium nokia 8890 slide phone is the longest I've ever kept a phone. That one was the first thing I ever bought after getting a job and lasted me four years.

[@achebeterence6908]

Of all the things I would have never expected from this video, at the top of them would be a mention of one of the most popular film series ever Pro in my country. Your research truly knows no bounds and no equal. Amazing work.

[@yohan1004]

9:37 Blackberry design is from Motorola Korea's 2008 V9M design. When South Korea Motorola branch still produced its own unique design for Korean market.

[@vakama94]

At one point in time, everyone in my family had a BlackBerry device. It's incredible how things have changed since then. Great video as always!

[@littledrummer3814]

Let me guess. At present, everyone in your family uses an iPhone. Am I right?

[@lionbizzle]

That Nigerian Movie reference shows how well-written and produced your reviews are. Hats off to you champ.

[@airwolf778]

Good, another Mr Mobile Movie 🙂

[@DrewDvorak]

Love it. So that palm pre retrospective is still coming, right? Remember when they said you could sync with iTunes? And apple was like, what? Then they eventually said their phone was an apple product over USB so it could sync? Remember? You da best!

[@MattCook206]

Oh man, what a walk down memory lane. I had my first blackberry when I was 17, and kept them thru the passport. Very well done video, thanks for making me have the feels haha. thanks.

[@geraldslonaker3289]

I loved my Blackberry for work in a time where true productivity mattered, and the Blackberry was the perfect productivity tool.

[@startedtech]

I remember seeing the Flip at the Sprint store so many time, always thought it was so cool. Ended up getting an LG Lotus though since we didn't want to get a smartphone plan. (On a side note speaking of weird Sprint phones, really hope to see the Kyocera Echo in an episode one day!)

[@Johnny_Socko]

WOW, that mention of the LG Lotus brought up a long-dormant memory. My wife coveted the purple Lotus so much, that I literally can't remember whether we actually bought one, or just spent a lot of time *talking* about buying one! Up until right now I had completely forgotten about that phone! (I do know for a fact that she eventually got a red Palm Centro, because we still have it along with the original Sprint packaging.)

[@zyrlith]

You’re like my 2023 version of PhoneDog and I mean that in the best way possible. PhoneDog was my KZbin childhood lol

[@randommanlady]

Love this😍 the Blackberry 8520 curve was my first real smart phone. After watching this video, I pulled it out of storage to reflect on how far we’ve come with technology. Holding it side-by-side to my Samsung galaxy 22 ultra and iPhone 12 it’s baffling to compare how little screen real estate we had on these things and yet, that keyboard! just made the device so functional. Can’t wait for the blackberry movie. I’m see if I can get mine working in time for the first showing! Wish me luck

[@lbberkeley]

Whew! This brings back memories. Working in mobile at the time, I replaced so many of those Pearl trackballs. They came on a roll.

[@astr.01]

Blackberry was SUPER popular in Nigeria in its time. Off the top of my head I remember the Curve and Bold were the most popular, with the torch, storm and pearl right after those. The playbook and passport weren't as popular because other devices were climbing up the same ladder but the brand is definitely cemented in Nigerian popular culture's history, at least to my memory 😄

[@alessandrorizzi86]

In nowadays phones and apps I still miss a very useful BB feature: In the email app you could see both sent and received emails in the same page as separate messages. I can't find an app that can do that on my iPhone in 2023. Not to mention you could see also messages, whatsapp chat and BBM message. So easy to keep everything under control.

[@amandacoyle72]

I loved the blackberry phones when they came out wish I could have had one.

[@eightbitJuan]

Once I was finally able to buy my own phones, I only got to try a single BlackBerry; The OG Storm. I absolutely LOVED it. The physical click was super satisfying and it remains one of my favorite phones I've used to this day.

[@VeryBlackMirror]

I’m *so* excited for this episode! I’ve had almost every model of Blackberry and I still miss it to this day! I’d love to see a review of the tablet! I ordered it, but never ended up using it back in the day.

[@andresbravo2003]

I mean, the BlackBerry Film just recently came out and it’s quite cool how the rise and fall of RIM’s Smartphone division might be heartwarming.

[@d_ruby]

Great episode! Blackberry devices were EVERYWHERE in the mid-late aughts. Losing the Signal was an incredible retrospective. Would love to see an episode on departed MVNOs like Virgin Mobile, Helio, etc (RIP). And the exclusive hardware for each. Phones like the Helio Ocean were bonkers for the time. Stay mobile, Mr. M!

[@Johnny_Socko]

Helio was the first phone to have Google Maps! I thought that was so cool, lol. It was like a transition period between PDAs & feature phones, but before smartphones.

[@Dex99SS]

I too sold phones back then... first job at Radio Shack when 16 or 17 years old.... stayed there for 4 or 5 years, leaving around 2004. Of course we sold Sprint and VZW, and after this I'd ended up managing two VZW stores, one in downtown PGH PA, and one in a new mall that had just popped up (PGH Mills), which is now all but as dead as dead can be. Crazy to have been there during opening, at its best, and also now... seeing it at its near condemned worst. Regardless, I skilled Blackberry the entire way through... it just wasn't in ANY way for me. In the very early days I had an SPH-i300, PalmOS based, very Palm Pilot like, phone. Also had an Audiovox Thera 2032, and many many many Windows Mobile iterations, most being from HTC and coming in well before its first real success with the Apache. But BB just never held any interest to me, it was too bland, useless, etc. It had a few redeeming subsets of features that would win over folks who ONLY needed to email and communicate within a closed ecosystem / company, where the units were all purchased and managed via said company. But, as an individual personal phone, I never saw the point. It was expensive, lacked ALL the fun features of other, better units... and would basically tie your hands with corporate "no fun for you" handcuffs the whole time. All of these other ecosystems of "smart phones", of which all existed so so SO long before apple ever did anything related to the sort, all offered far more individuality. Gaming, apps, sideloading, official app sources, official Microsoft suites (and others), messaging, video, camera, it was all just SO MUCH FURTHER ahead, or simply present at all and in general, on other handsets.. while BB lacked it. But regardless, it was the best of the eras for sure. Same with computers and tech in general... heck, even cars for that matter... things were just FAR more exciting back then. Somehow the world has gone entirely malaise now, or at least beige.

[@gloriouskatatsumuri]

I miss blackberry

[@kubev]

10:50 - Ugh. I worked at Verizon Wireless for the Storm launch. What a turd. It started like the launch of any other big-name phone, though, with every liar who wasn't eligible for a phone upgrade doing everything possible to worm their way into somehow getting a Storm as a replacement for their current phone. As if BlackBerry tech support calls weren't already horrific enough, we suddenly had to deal with the screen issues of the Storm.

[@Leornianæfre]

I really miss physical keyboards. I’d love a phone like the Style to come back but with a better camera, larger touch screen and Android. One of the best phones ever made. I had the Bold 9700, hands down the best phone I ever owned.

[@mgz0305]

I LOVE and MISS BlackBerry phones!! I really miss the tactile feedback of a physical keyboard. Also truly miss the CrackBerry days!! I really felt and still feel like part of the community.

[@Solarsystemrdffdfyyhh]

I think mr mobile put the flips back in style with these uploads

[@HassanKhan0987]

4:18 so true i distinctly remeber people loving blackberries when mobile phone first got popular in my primary school and beyond because of messaging ( this was the UK)

[@Victor-tf9dd]

Babe dis fud luks dry, I expected kim to oda 4 wine, am tired of all these

[@Voidelle]

A secondhand grayscale “blueberry” was my first phone. God I loved that thing. I eventually got my mom’s Pearl Flip. I WISH I could’ve had a full sized flip as the time lol.

[@imprintz]

Title was a bit confusing, didn’t click on it for a couple days because I thought it was only about a flip blackberry phone. Love the history of blackberry tour you brought us on!

[@iruosthoughtsonstuff8574]

Blackberry babes was the biggest movie at that time in Nigeria because it served as a cautionary tale for what the addiction to the phone causes to society 😂😂😂. Thanks bringing a big Nigerian pop culture reference to limelight

[@foolofaguyinlove]

I will quite honestly never tire of your nuanced predilection for all things ever-nostalgically “BlackBerry”, and the profoundly timeless series of periodical iterative instalments that follow suit, as a natural, if all too warmly welcome, consequence of which. These videos just do it for me as a quintessentially visceral feature of deeply relatable and resonant catharsis I could not quite articulate, even if I wanted to.

[@JWINDSOR]

My dad still uses my old playbook to play his music from over his stereo. Still works fine apart from the comically long time it takes to turn on which was there from new.

[@thetechlibrarian]

People who where not there will never understand how fast you could navigate and bang out full emails with that keyboard. Shortcuts like using the volume keys to skip songs and pressing t to go to the top and b for bottom etc etc where fantastic

[@susansammy5448]

Keep making these vids!! Still use my playbook as a pure video player... but miss my BB World Edition.... I actually was a BES Admin for my company back in 2009...

[@DustyTheDog]

my mother had the Blackberry Pearl for so long that it had half of its keys by the time she got too annoyed with using it that way. To put it bluntly, she LOVED the thing probably more than me..

[@pantheonauxilia]

Nice video, I am big synthwave fan and you often choose the best tracks for the background!

[@boejiden7093]

I used to drool over blackberry when I was in high school. My dad had a bold and I got a curve. Their Z10 was just amazing. I wish their brand succeeded in gaining more market share.

[@renargues]

9:06 "Phones? Well they can really be a time machine, of sorts." I love this statement. This isn't particularly too new or too old but I picked up a iPhone X on iOS 12 recently and I've been using old apps that (somehow still work!) and it feels like a time machine by itself. I even modified the Apple Pay images to be recreations of my bank's old card designs! Love this video even in 2024!

[@AdamZeis]

Hard-hitting nostalgia here! The Pearl Flip review was my first big review video for CrackBerry. Production value of which has never been matched. Thanks for this!

[@FOIAGras]

Former user of 7105, Bold 9700, Bold 9900, Q10, Z10, and Priv. Bold 9700 will forever be my favorite mobile device form factor. The cleverly designed call answer/decline/mute buttons at the top of the device (holster compatibility), optical track pad, full keyboard with "toolbelt" buttons (which BB tried with mixed success to replace with gestures and touch screen on Q10), the clever smart typing software. That rig was an email and music/podcast playing powerhouse. I didn't even realize at the time just how bad the resolution was and web browsing pre-BB10 was abysmal. The small battery went a long way at least the first two years in service after which the spare battery and external charger were small inconveniences. If BB had kept pace with the industry on app ecosystem and had a successor to bold with slightly bigger, high res display, capacitive keyboard, and track pad I would still be rocking a BB today. I would even ditch the touch screen! When Phones Were Fun, indeed!

[@TunedByJ]

My Blackberry Storm, Bold 9900 and Curve are some of my favorites Blackberries of all time- this took me down memory lane

[@letterspace1letterspace266]

BB "brick" handsets were literally indestructible. The keyboards were perfection. I miss BB.

[@AlexGY7462]

I follow quite a few tech youtubers,even MrWhoseTheBoss,but,you are by far my favourite tech youtuber,plus,i am also absolutely obsessed with foldables,i own a fold4 and i love it to bits,i would like to also buy a flip4 or even a motorola razr.The thing is i love your reviews,you are by far the coolest tech youtuber i've seen

[@Shahrimannn]

When I'm eating alone and in need of a video to look at, I always look up MrMobile. So enjoyable.

[@smoovmoovs90]

I just came here to indulge in the nostalgia from 20 years ago. Appreciate the commentary.

[@Notyourdaddy83]

My BlackBerry journey start with BB Pearl 8100 in 2008 (i still got it in my drawer), then in short time i switched to BB 8800 and few others (Bold’s models)….my BB journey ended in 2011 with BB Bold 9900. Those were great times & missed them. BBM, fantastic keyboard and many others features. 😢

[@DJTydalOfficial]

My first smart phone was a blackberry bold. I got it in 2013 as a hand me down from my parents and I used it for all through my fifth grade year. I loved it To death.

[@SapientiaDoctrina]

In 2013, my father bought a Blackberry phone. I still remember how enjoyable it was typing on its extraordinary keyboard. Then, he bought an iPhone in 2015. My mother owned an LG phone roughly around the same time. I also remember that my grandfather had a Windows Phone. Good times😌

[@vsprdln]

The Blackberry Style Purple was my last Blackberry. I absolutely loved that phone like no other

[@liamcollinson5695]

Blackberry messenger became infamous when i was at college they was used for cute things like dating but also bad things. A lot of people forget the tablet that was shocking in how easily it could work with the phones

[@Major_Mason]

I still hold onto my father's Blackberry Storm 9500 I think. It had the brickbreaker game that I loved so much.

[@Will_Bx_NYC_718]

Great video as usual. I truly miss these times when phones were fun. There was so much variety and different coming out all the time, it truly was a euphoric era to have lived in.

[@mihirshetye4624]

I am always hoping for the latest "When Phones Were Fun" video from MrMobile,and when we do get it always makes my day !!

[@vsoco4921]

AH, Mr. Mobile, always there for me when I need you the most! I'm sick and have to work, but this will things a little bit more bearable

[@CamboSpace]

Such a nice back for this series! I'm so glad to watch this kind of flashback!

[@nintendoscarface1982]

Ah man I had this phone for boost and loved it. Was really bummed that the blackberry flip wasn’t gonna survive the iPhone introduction

[@kamsandwich6990]

I had the tracberry. The trac phone with a full keyboard from straight talk. Really reliable actually. Can probably still use it if I find it.

[@AnuranDC]

I had a BlackBerry 9700 bold and a z3 and this video made me all nostalgic. I genuinely miss the good old days of using a phone that could fit in my pocket comfortably and still managed to have a full fledged physical keyboard. Not to mention the fact that most features of BlackBerry was way ahead of their time.

[@Heavenonearth900]

My love for blackberry is one of the many reasons why I enjoy and trust your reviews wayyyy back from pocketnow ❤️🇳🇬 love what you did with the blackberry babes😅

[@blackistheword7]

Ahhhh…thanks for taking us back mrmobile😊

[@videoghost]

I miss my Blackberry Pearl so much. I've had many a phone since then, but that's my favorite phone of all time.

[@apollo-so5yj]

That BlackBerry Style looks awesome. Never seen that model before. RIM made some amazing looking devices back then.

[@ModricoTV]

At three years old, I had a pink Verizon RAZR V3M, an AT&T Motorola V60T Color, and a T-Mobile BlackBerry 7105T. Man, I LOVED that 7105T. Got it from a girl at church who for whatever reason decided I needed one. At the same time, my Uncle Sean had a Nextel BlackBerry 7100i.

[@Sven989]

I'll never forget the Razr Flip phone, Nextel Walkie Talkie Phone and T Mobile Sidekick.

[@Hydrangear]

Omg i love the Little BlackBerry cufflink at the start 🥺🥺

[@kidcat3000]

Omg those photos really do look 2010. I can totally see that being the next aesthetic trend, once the 90s/00s nostalgia wears off.

[@MikiGo88]

Even before smart phones came out I was already addicted cuz my school taught my class in elementary school how to use a mac and windows computers when the internet became more consumer friendly. I remember being in like the 1st/2nd grade in the early 90s, my school and teachers had the insight that technology and the internet was going to be the norm this was way before flip phones and cell phones were popular, only the rich could afford them still. Even before cell phones had screens they where still bricks. All they way until high school in the early 2000s all my teachers from elementary school up until high school would highly encourage my classmates to be highly educated on the latest technology so I already had the addiction to internet. My dad got our first gateway computer when I was in the 4th/5th grade and I was the one who had to set up the computer. My dad had no idea and I don't know what made him get one but not only having access to technology at such a young age and the internet I was already extremely knowledgeable. I was the go to child to set everything up when technology kept changing throughout my childhood. Even when cellphones became smaller and they looked like calculators with flimsy antennas I was the go to person to help my family. At the time the cell phone we got didn't have internet and you had to wait until night to be able to make unlimited calls and text I was still online on our home computer if not playing games which was the sims that always came free when you purchased a computer I was on youtube when it 1st came out or I would be on any website that was around when I was in middle school or high school, like LiveJournal being one of them. I remember around 2006/07 I got my 1st flip phone and it had a colored screeen and it could connect to the internet but mostly to download games and rightones or I forgot the name of it but when you called someone it was like a inner call ringtone so they can hear the song you choose to listen to when they called you. I wasn't aware of the whole blackberry or iphone introduction in those times but I do remember my cousin introducing me to my 1st experience to the touch screen phones which I don't know if they where called smart phones at the time in 2009/10 it was a google phone called HTC Dream. When I saw that my mind was blown cuz she was showing me how you can go online almost like you can today but not as great. I also remember my best friend at the time who had the Samsung phone and I was obsessed with it. She was the one that got me into getting smart phones back in 2009/10. We had gone to the store together and helped me pick out my 1st smart phone cuz at the time I had cell phone called tap but when I got my 1st Samsung there was no looking back. I even remember even when I had a Samsung my dad got me and ipod touch cuz he didn't know about smart phones becoming more popular amoung the masses. I had to tell him I already had a device that was similar to the iphone but I was able to make calls and it was already connected to the internet via sim card. My dad didn't fully get it until cellphone providers started to only sell smartphone device's in the mid 2010s and stopped carrying flip phones and phones with number pads. Both of my parent's didn't get smart phones until 2015/16 and again I was the one helping them transition to the new technology. This time I already had a few yrs to get use to smart devices. I'm still helping my parents and they now understand the addiction most genx, millennials and tech savy silent gen and boomers had with technology and the internet before smart phones made it easy for the other generations to use and understand even if they don't fully get it they still have some form of addiction cuz of youtube and facebook which they tend to use the most.

[@shadybrucemathers]

I’ve been waiting for this video since you posted that Blackberry style image on Twitter.! 🎉 NOSTALGIC ❤

[@mickywinters8451]

I was a blackberry specialist for Nextel and corporate sales rep. Miss these phones and good times :( nice video man.

[@SatyenRai]

Finally! Been waiting for BlackBerry video since this series started.

[@aidanbrennan7389]

It's a great video and brings back some memories. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪 .

[@thecoreelementsmoto]

These videos always remind me of my time as a sprint tech. Pearl was the 1st smart phone I kept, even 20 day returned the original iphone