16 Smartphones Better Than iPhone

[@MaChuKindaCrasee]

Yo that prada phone was the first capacitive touch-screen phone. They even won a lawsuit over Apple for it.

[@hamzasultan96]

It's the fact I love throwing to "Apple did it first" people. They innovated nothing. You can be as specific as you want but Apple did nothing first except making the iPhone. Not the first smartphone, not the first capacitive touch phone, not the first anything. Just Apple's SECOND attempt at a phone.

[@matthewbrach4922]

​@@hamzasultan96Apple is a genius marketing company and a medium technology company

[@hanktank45]

Honestly htc one m8 is still one of my fondest times with a phone. I loved it, the sound was great. I didn't feel like it needed a case. It had so much going for it. Sadly htc didn't do much after that

[@chekothegenius]

Im so glad im not the only one, i had my m8 for so long

[@gaijin2162]

i have an M9 as a spare phone right now, i put android 12, its a really great experience... but the battery is gone

[@Themeraldknight]

Same the only phone that comes close is the Samsung Galaxy note 9

[@Trihawk7]

M7 was better imo because it utilised the chin for back and home at least. M8 chin was pretty redundant.

[@miggs521]

Came here to say they forgot to mention the M8! Seriously miss that one phone

[@brickman409]

The LG Prada was the first phone to have a capacitive touch screen, so I would say that's a pretty big deal.

[@mathewsjacobb]

I had the flex 2. I got it just for the gimmick of being able to flatten it out. It blew peoples minds.

[@Fay7666]

I wanted to get one, but I remember it being caught inside the boot loop mania.

[@mathewsjacobb]

@@Fay7666 That is actually why I had to get rid of it. a year in and the boot loop happened, and i switched to iphone.

[@tbuk8350]

@@mathewsjacobb Ah, the good ol' days of the LG boot loop bug. Still remember multiple LG G4's dying on me within a month. Truly the greatest phones ever made.

[@Splackavellie85]

The YotaPhone 2 was a great secondary smartphone on vacation when it was discounted, because the eInk screen would last for days and was actually visible in direct sunlight (unlike my iPhone 5S).

[@BSGSV]

I didn't realize anyone would think there AREN'T many phones better than something as basic as an iPhone.

[@noobmasters6913]

there are ALOT of better phone hardware wise.... but in mine and ALOT of people opinions ios is waaaaay better then android... right now i use a Samsung galaxy because i hate apple current direction with right to repair. but ios is better

[@pizago93]

@@noobmasters6913 lol Samsung is the iphone on the android market, you need to purchase accessories from Samsung like their own dongle in order to use the headphone jack, no third party accessories.

[@LennyQUMFIF]

@@pizago93 What? So what happens when you use a 3rd party Headphone Jack adapter?

[@pizago93]

@@LennyQUMFIF the phone does not recognize it like, just gives you a message saying not authorized third party device or something like that, I don't exactly remember but it happened to my roommate who just switched from apple to Samsung last year.

[@Forzamon42069]

Are we talking the original iPhone or the latest ones?

[@JeskidoYT]

Rip in peace HTC and LG. May their acquisition by Samsung lead to their revivals /s

[@trialbyfire4188]

Rip stands for rest in peace so saying rip in peace is pointless. Just say rip or rest in peace

[@berdansargol1577]

​@@trialbyfire4188smh my head

[@NinjAsylum]

I am literally holding my old (does not work anymore) HTC One M8 as I type this. Best phone I have ever owned.

[@drstw17]

Sidekicks were the best. I wish they would make an updated version

[@mattotto9949]

Mentions I'd like to make. Nokia N8 - the older brother of the N9. All aluminum, Xenon flash!!, and just generally awesome looking. Nokia 808 Pureview - 41Mp camera in a phone from 2012. Huge sensor, very interesting Any of the LG G-series. Rear buttons. Took some getting used too, but man, I still miss them to this day. Any of the Nokia Xpress music's. If you had this phone in your friends group, you would always be the one playing music on break :) Thanks for the video!

[@MelI-zm9lj]

Absolutely wrecked with that single shot joke.

[@ThaFedejp]

The Flex 2 was the first flagship I've ever touched and blew my mind completely. I was OBSESSED with the HTCs M7/M8, loved the looks and was really intrigued by the sound and the DUAL CAMERA (although it sucked). Never had one, though. Also, my best friend at the time had the Nokia N8 and then bought the N9, don't know why he chose to suffer that much 😂 Seeing a bunch of these phones made me remember really nice things from my first days as a tech enthusiast (and I may or may not be interested in mint condition units of the phones that were talked about in this comment)

[@DabblelyDiddly]

Windows mobile. The FIRST Mobile OS to bring you a PC in your pocket.

[@X3LGMoneyShot]

Apple phones/devices actually have good hardware sometimes and I'll give them that. But I think that Apple is just very overpriced for what it actually offers. And IOS is very restrictive, it's almost like using factory set parental controls. It's like they know that people will just put their phones in their toddler's hands and pre made it to be a fisher price phone

[@seentursch]

I hear that Apple is restrictive from lots, but what is it that it can’t do? I can’t think of one thing that I want to do but can’t.

[@mykeday]

@@seentursch a large factor of that is because apple tell you what you're allowed to do. Then every once in a while release "a new feature" which gives you access to something android has been using for years. Most people within the apple eco system are not looking into what can android do. Now apple is less restrictive now than it once was, but it's still very behind android.

[@AverageMelody]

@@seentursch ig the whole restrictive thing stems from the ios that doesn't allow you to download apk from websites and the lack of customizations

[@GrantRuhoff]

@@seentursch they mention modding a lot in this video as a first point. Second is look at some of the tools android can use like the app tasker and try to honestly tell me that an app like that would work on iOS.

[@FlynnApollo]

Restrictive in what way? No sideloading apps? I don’t do that anyway. My ONE issue with iOS and iPadOS is that WEBMs aren’t supported.

[@RogueCarrot]

You just made me realize that I haven't had phantom vibrations since I got an Apple Watch. Since my phone doesn't actually vibrate ever anymore I've completely forgotten it used to. Of course now the vibrations are on my wrist. But I haven't had any phantom ones so far. lol

[@slimsketchy1489]

Loved the HTC One M7. Such a beautiful phone it was. The stereo speakers were amazing for the time. Still have it but the battery has expanded 😬

[@Otterplus]

This video deserves a reshoot with Michael Fisher.

[@fbd4209]

I had the yotaphone 2. I loved it ! Eink is underused in tech

[@christophermorin9036]

Honestly, I still want a Galaxy S4 Zoom.

[@jandecoleman1]

I had the 1st Sidekick and the Sidekick II, and I so miss that phone. What I would give to have another version of the Sidekick with today's technology in it and having and actual keyboard because I SO HATE typing on touch screens. I would not care that it would be thicker.

[@oplkfdhgk]

i think pinephone pro is going to be better than iphone once they get the software to good point so probably in like year or two.🙂

[@UKfromadrone]

Htc hd2 could run so much more than what you think... Windows mobile 5, 6, 6.5.3 Windows phone 7, 8, 8.1(and laggily 10) Windows xp, 7, 8 Android up to 7 (both tablet and phone versions) Amazons fire phone op sys And i probably still miss a few

[@Narvie04]

The Nexus 6P is still by far my favourite phone I’ve owned, huge screen, great speaker quality and probably the best camera on the market for years until the original Pixel.

[@UndyingSilentm]

The G1 was sick! Think I had that phone my Jr year of high-school when it came out

[@lukewhite-pine1810]

sometimes austin says "i dont have to spin this one" to spin it more

[@NeoVejiita]

I don't think I've ever heard AIM called Eh Aye Em...Everybody I know just pronounced it like the word aim.

[@imalimabeanyay]

Nobody i knew called it aim until it was basically dead.

[@AverageMelody]

well, people call ARM "ay are em" so

[@MultiDarkZen]

The worse phone I ever owned was the next bit Robin they discontinued the cloud service that was supposed to last forever and that's how it was marketed it has no micro SD card slot and the storage space is almost non existent It looks nice but it's pretty much useless now since they discontinued the cloud storage for it. When the storage got full it would automatically send unused apps to the cloud that was the phones gimmick but of course that feature no longer works now they rebranded the phone as a razer phone thats 10x more the price for the same thing 🙃 my first ever phone was a flipphone with a keyboard before smart phones became popular then my first real smartphone was a samsung galaxy s3 then I upgraded to a Samsung s8 which started having issues so now my latest phone is the Samsung galaxy s10 purely because I hated the bigger phone of the galaxy s8+

[@roboteen]

Welcome to 2022, we've taken out the SD card in every flagship phone and advertise that lack of functionality as a function.

[@LennyQUMFIF]

@@roboteen Sony will save us! Their Flagship phones actually still have a Headphone Jack and SD slot, while also having a Flagship screen

[@slyfoxkgar]

lucky gold star.. so happy someone brought that up.. used to wholesale computers and parts way back. gold star was the lowest end garbage money could buy. it was everywhere. then they rebranded and became a much better company.. LG..

[@Miguel_Macias1]

Man this video are amazing! Pls keep them coming!

[@ericjordan2205]

The no phone just sounds like a physical version of the song of the same name by Cake.

[@thedominator87]

dude im still mad i missed out on the sidekick and blackberry days, i wanted them so bad but never got them i also lowkey wanted he lg wing

[@paulcarmi8130]

Midnight club LA had an achievement for syncing up your sidekick to the game.. and because of that, I’ll never 100% it cause MyFaves are gone :(

[@UFOhunter4711]

Fuck that HTC HD2 is such a throw back, that was such a cool phone at the time, that screen was fucking massive

[@meggnogg]

I remember the Prada phone from when I was younger being the first touchscreen phone I had ever seen! It was on display alongside an array of flip phones and other devices with tiny screens andlots of buttons. I remember being so confused looking at a device with a large screen and a couple of tiny buttons at the bottom and I turned around and asked my dad how the heck that phone would even be usable without lots of buttons😂 I thought it would be so difficult to use without a keypad but little did I know that little luxury back then would turn out to be the future of pretty much every smartphone that exists in the mainstream market today.

[@miliart7695]

I miss the T-Mobile Girl more than ALL of my relatives.

[@Lions7.62mm]

Finally an entertaining episode of this is‼️ First one I've watched all the way through actually! I keep checking back from time to time hoping it would get better & it finally did!!

[@dorianime2686]

Bought the no phone, thought of my life desicion,regret buying the no phone and now I'm rewatching this video with a tear runs down my cheek while saying "this is okay"...

[@tsprouse1322]

You know what these episodes make me feel? Good and then sadness… because I miss actually getting unique phones lol like every iPhone and other phone has been the same screen and shape design for years basically. I would love it if they just stopped trying to up the specs a tiny bit annually and just made something actually cool and unique with their engineering and design money💰

[@aj383]

If you haven't noticed, most corporations have stopped trying to innovate, because they can't guarantee profits from something dramatically different... And it's not just in phones. Hollywood movie studios are more content to just make sequels to the titles that succeeded during the heyday of experimentation, triple-A video game developers are just reusing the same war stories on the same graphics engines, major car manufacturers are just copy/pasting each other's "futuristic" look and doing nothing revolutionary under the hood...

[@roboteen]

@@aj383 while I agree, your Hollywood example just isn't it. Most sequals and remakes just dont make as much money and generally speaking they're never as good as the original

[@jasimaneesahamed1033]

​@@aj383 "If you haven't noticed, most corporations have stopped trying to innovate, because they can't guarantee profits from something dramatically different..." This is exactly why LG died and HTC is *barely* holding on

[@mastersingleton]

The HTC Sensation 4G design wise and build quality is ahead of its time for a smartphone and the LG V30+ sound quality wise is one of the best for a fully featured smartphone.

[@CookieQuasher]

This was a really good episode 👍🏽

[@AnassEljondy]

still would love a revamped yota phone, bigger and slimmer . more reading , less social media . no clunky kindle . EPIC WIN !

[@jasonhedtke659]

We need more videos like this! Love these videos

[@SenatorFreddyQuimby]

Ripping on Austin at the end felt weird and forced. Idk but I'd have cut that. He's OUR boi

[@EpicHelios83]

Always wanted a Sidekick, but it was exclusive to Tmobile and back then, their service was trash in my area. So, looking for something similar, I ended up getting a carrier called Helio. They had this great phone called the Helio Ocean (bad name, but great phone). Technically wasn't a smart phone, but it was in a way. Had AOL Instant Messenger and MySpace pre-installed, and it was my first phone to have GPS maps capability. Also, it was unique because it was a dual slider. Slide it out vertically for a normal number pad, vertically for a full qwerty keyboard. Loved that phone so much, but then the company got bought out by Sprint, so I switched to AT&T and got the first Samsung Galaxy phone. Still have my Helio Ocean in a box somewhere.

[@mykeday]

How did you keep the list to only 16? Or can we expect to see the next few volumes shortly.

[@TheZChannel]

"I would rather have the nophone than anything apple"

[@allansh828]

damn, I still have NoPhone in the drawer in my parents' place

[@jayster3.0]

I love phones with slide out keyboard. Wish iPhones and all the newest had that feature.😢

[@itsdeonlol]

This topic is the best!!

[@Mojomanultra]

I wish phone case makers would make phone cases with keyboards on, i miss buttons. EDIT: Yo the intuition aspect ratio looks great.

[@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

Your prayers were answered. Michael Fisher now has a company doing exactly that.

[@-TheFacelessGamer-]

LG used to stand for "Lucky Goldstar"? I didn't know that. That's all I got out of the video. Lol.

[@oplkfdhgk]

please keep doing this. this is very interesting video subject. 🙂

[@Mnstr3nrgy]

I had the sidekick lx 2009, and to this day I still miss it from time to time.

[@alt666]

literally every phone is better than the iphone lmao i'd use a brick phone over any iphone ever made

[@d4b4y4re4kid]

I miss the g1 i remember getting it and felt the improvement over the sidekick and then the G2 came out. I still have in a drawer and remember the beating it took yet its still intact.

[@hw2577]

All jokes aside, this is a good look-back at the variety of Android phones that have been produced over the last decade. And now the Android field has settled down to basically just Samsung and Motorola (at least in the U.S.).

[@frostbite3820]

I was litterally about to comment "I'd rather have a no phone than an IPhone" and then I got called out before I could comment 🤣

[@chaotictattoo]

A phone better than an iPhone isn't really that hard.

[@jeromelindsay5954]

HTC M7 and M8 was my favorite phone til this day....... No phone to date was as fast and crisp as those phones....... I need a 5G version asap!!!

[@Chriva]

Check out Xperia X1 (HTC Kovsky). Same league as HTC HD2 but older (and hence less powerful) We ran Linux, Android, modded Windows mobile versions, custom shells etc etc on it. :)

[@joeyo2365]

The htc one M7 and htc one Max are still my favorite phone designs to date, and I’m a diehard iPhone user. I had and loved both, and kept the Max until the CPU couldn’t keep up with me anymore, about 2017

[@Jamiepunk1]

Thanks for the Microcenter Freebie SSD Coupon got mine today! Hopefully it's sound!

[@Lady-Bug3]

The only reason I gave up my htc one was because I had to go to a college that only had at&t and the htc one was on Verizon at the time. I still kept that phone hoping I could graduate early and use it again. I did graduate early, but technology was faster.

[@iwinrar5207]

I'd love a nophone. Most durable phone there is.

[@cardsfanbj]

I miss having stereo front facing speakers. I had a Moto X Pure with them and it was a much better KZbin experience than any phone I've had since. Unfortunately I cracked the screen trying to replace the battery on it.

[@rickscott8652]

Honestly the Samsung S7 is the best and I’m still using it today. I’m interested in S22 ultra but stick to my S7.

[@GuitarListen]

Just shows how uninformed you are if you are interested in the S22 ultra.

[@lordwinterdawn111]

The Nokia N9 was my favorite phone back in that time. Even though it wasn't that popular. It can take a beating. When I got a better phone, I still used it for music. The camera was really good too surprisingly.

[@TheKingkong2468]

AS A LG MOBILE USER (having bought the lg wing twice now) i feel personally attacked lol

[@Boggler343]

9:49 ayo was that unbox therapy with the scam phone

[@TheWildernessEnthusiast]

That OG sidekick was the coolest phone ever made.

[@lucasleach13]

Where did Austin get his shirt in this? I love that

[@kylanhunt7464]

Check out the HTC thunderbolt, had it'd own built in kickstand, horrible performance but a cool design

[@JayLew91]

I loved my sidekick. The last phone before I switched to Android

[@nutjimmy]

The galaxy round was created after one of the samsung execs sat down with their phone in their ass pocket.

[@daleroe9128]

Good one🤭

[@typhoon_8086]

Is it just me, or does the Saygus Guy look like Lou from Unbox Therapy?

[@leioh816]

That ......is Lou isn't it..??

[@faden2gaming]

I love my iPhone I dnt think I would ever trade it in for any android device

[@RyanCasanovaryankun]

Best show in KZbin.

[@TomAnderson.]

I had an HTC 3G and till this day I never had a phone like it.

[@bensonsj98]

Huge shout-out to the G1.

[@the_holy_forestfairy]

If T-Mobile would release a "New-Sidekick" with the latest technology, I would definitely buy it!

[@noodlelynoodle.]

I had the lg rumor reflex during the time that you could get internet without a data plan and was so amazed being able to get internet in the park. My parents got me that phone specifically cause they thought it wouldn't be able to do internet and I just never mentioned that it could but hellllllla slow

[@integer0verload948]

A Nokia candy bar trac phone is better than the iPhone. As long as you got minutes on your card 😅🤣

[@italianozuzu1232]

My first smartphone was the htc. I was very impress to use a screen instead of buttons.

[@DMOTED]

The htc one m8 was built nice but couldn’t find service anywhere for me.

[@22lalen]

My absolut favorit was Neonode N2. But now im driving a Samsung Galaxy S10 e. I bought it when it came out. And it is still great. No plan to replace it anytime soon. It is great. Love the show by the way 🤘

[@Kartofka91]

And again you missed one of the best phones ever made. Alcatel Idol 3 which had dual front facing speakers and mics and you can talk on it even if you flipped it and it didnt matter which direction i picked it up it will always rotate and be on the correct side plus it was a colab with JBL and it had amazing audio and jbl earbuds in the package

[@meteorafallen]

The HTC One M7 was the phone that literally got me to switch to Verizon from Boost and give up my Modded Samsung Galaxy Nexus that I had flashed over to Boost's network for. I even went as far as going to Best Buy to get the exclusive Metallic Blue version. I had two of them and it's still one of my all time favorite phone i've owned, my only complaint with it honestly was that sapphire lens they put over they camera lens that gave things a purple/blue shift. Which they ended up ditching on the One M8. But by that time I had made the switch over to Motorola and the Droid Turbo.

[@agenericaccount3935]

Samsung Zoom. A built in pop socket!

[@Chrish1981]

OMG it's the puffy shirt from Seinfeld!!!!!

[@karanbedi270]

The hd2 was my first phone

[@snellnation4895]

Absolutely hilarious segment 😂

[@michaelwalsh3474]

Man, I miss the HTC M7/M8 phone. Google Play Edition, stereo front speakers. (even the windows phone version was nice.)

[@DesmondAnthony]

Only just found this chanel, awesome channel!

[@kyhassen]

Palm pre was my FAVORITE

[@BrandonGiesing]

Honestly the YottaPhone had a great idea but it was way too early. With how e-ink tech has massively improved nowadays with color and almost normal refresh rates (well "normal" as in before 90+ Hz started becoming standard), a single screen e-ink phone running Android would be very usable nowadays. There's a few by Hisense plus on the tablet side, there's 100s of tablets now with Android and e-ink screens and you can do basically anything a normal Android phone can with basically no compromises since the screens have gotten that good, yes you can even watch videos in decent speed and quality.

[@KingRichardLSmith]

Never heard of most of these phones

[@siwasm5723]

My 9yo brother got a ZTE blade A3 at the beginning of this month for his birthday. He likes it.

[@balllzdeep420anthonyeddins9]

I have the sidekick lx and sidekick slide. Should do the HTC tilt 2. Was my favorite phone ever and ahead of its time

[@Undeadscoll]

Love this video

[@chrismclaren113]

That can be dangerous if there is an emergency

[@linkssz1699]

Blackshark 2 and 3/pro has front facing stereo speakers that blows htc out the water.