The Experimental Phones of the 2000s...

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The Experimental Phones of the 2000s...

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I hate you iphone......*continues to use iphone*
I love these phones so much man. This video is not meant to be some huge analysis of phone designs, trends, and things, I just love the phones this era produced and wanted to show off some that I found so cool, so I hope you found them cool also, I think they are very neat :3, Thank you so much for watching.. and reading the description, I wonder how many people actually read the description down here? Maybe nobody.. Maybe I can say whatever I want and no one will know..... In 2011 I ki-
Thank you so much for being here though, please let me know of any phones you loved from the time, or even any memories of other tech from the time you found cool. Hearing other peoples stories is so so cool to me.
Ok I'm gonna go eat that coffee crisp I broke in this video, I literally recorded that maybe an hour before finishing lol
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0:00 WHAT IS THIS VIDEO ABOUT?
2:05 Slide Phones
5:20 Flip Phones
6:30 Shapes
8:31 Gimmicks
12:28 Internet Phones
16:32 Outro
Music Used (In Order):
Ratman - Sole Sentiment
Ashley Beedle Presents Uschi Classen Band - Do You Believe In Love?
FORSAKEN - Pure (bad word) Power
Wii U Eshop - Menu 7
Ape Escape 3 - Training Room
Smoke + Switcher Stage - Magnetica OST
▽:3~ ⸜ (My brothers custom made emoticon. I thought you might like it)

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@katamari_ 3 ай бұрын

why of all things did you make that the thumbnail

@bjiru_ 3 ай бұрын

thought it looked hard

@theshapeshifted 3 ай бұрын

@@bjiru_ real, honestly

@matticolo 3 ай бұрын

I hadn’t noticed 💀

@bumb.wingman 3 ай бұрын

@@bjiru_search up sonic x black knuckles fat gay seggs

@gododoof 3 ай бұрын

It's beautiful

@f4micom 3 ай бұрын

i miss when phones all looked different and everyone could actually pick something that it their vibe and use case

@Geeler 3 ай бұрын

So much this

@thesecondotto 3 ай бұрын

holy shit f4mi!!

@bjiru_ 3 ай бұрын

4real, was going to go more into the self expression and the "personal"-ness this variety in phones allowed for, but didn't end up working it in

@1secondarysmile 3 ай бұрын

hai f4mi :)

@matticolo 3 ай бұрын

F4mi!! =D

@elsakristina2689 3 ай бұрын

I still remember being nine years old and watching teenage girls text their boyfriends on their BlackBerry phones, lol. I thought teenagers were so cool as a kid.

@donnienarco144 3 ай бұрын

I thought the same too bro. But when I turned like 12/13 I started realizing phones and social media was getting lame af in the mid 2010s. It was new and exciting in the 2000s. But in the 2010s the BRAINROT started consuming us and nowadays teens are so lost all "different subcultures" look the same. Metal,skate,emo,punk,etc. It all feels the same now.

@krisstopher8259 3 ай бұрын

people in spy movies always had stuff like that, even 007 i think

@Twiddle_things 3 ай бұрын

Me too. I thought my aunt was the coolest ever and hoped that when I was a teen I'd be like her and what I saw on TV. There weren't any parties, there wasn't any band for me to join, there wasn't anymore cool emo scene stuff, there wasn't any edge, there weren't any cool boyfrends, there weren't any nights out, no cool videogames, just lamenting how lame the 2010s and 2020s are.

@dounia4207 3 ай бұрын

i texted my high school crush on facebook on my blackberry that i got from my sister 😭😭 i feel SO OLD RN

@fernandosalazardeza3211 3 ай бұрын

I speak Spanish (I'm from South America) and it's true I saw them as superior with those cell phones, now I'm more than one of those, I'm an adult and I'm not superior☹️ XD 😂😂

@99JayTaz99 28 күн бұрын

The 2000s to like 2013 felt so different man, like everybody just customized themselves much more, nowadays there's just a sanitized aura everywhere

@SaishsJahshsb-ou9nl 13 күн бұрын

I agree I am a 90s kid

@Cakalank Ай бұрын

N-Gage was the "certified Rich Kids" phones when i was in school. When you answer a call holding tacos on your ear, you put the poor kids holding tears.

@Kodeb8 3 ай бұрын

The 2000s sometimes feels like a fever dream.

@ChickenNugget-ev8zd 3 ай бұрын

Especially if you were born in the mid 2000s

@williamspell5692 3 ай бұрын

Well, it literally was the turn of the millenium.

@CessBee123 3 ай бұрын

I was born in 2002 so literally everything in the 2000s is like a weird multicoloured haze lol

@Neighborcarl24 3 ай бұрын

By 2009, things started to feel the same as now. I was 10 in 2000 and 20 by 2009.

@MashaRistova 3 ай бұрын

As someone who was a teenager in the early 2000’s, present day feels way more like a fever dream. You have people taking videos of themselves all day long, looking at themselves in their selfie cam all day long, and getting so much filler that the “beauty standard” is now to look like an alien. I promise in ten years you will look back on the 2020’s with horror.

@christopherbrown7230 3 ай бұрын

Kids these days will never know the joys of learning to text quickly and accurately on a numpad

@1antoinette 3 ай бұрын

And without even looking at the phone itself

@junek8700 3 ай бұрын

@anthonyjulson8840 3 ай бұрын

I could never get t9.

@Ontonton-mm6te 2 ай бұрын

I have a nokia 1112 and yeah, texting quickly in a numpad is fun

@mariellem7820 Ай бұрын

It was so easy to text your friends during school when you didn't need to look at your phone while typing

@robertozamcu3533 3 ай бұрын

2:55 THE WAY IT SLOWLY STARTS FLYING HELPPP

@vapor4 2 ай бұрын

That tickled me pink

@DingleMcHoppernoodle Ай бұрын

IM CRYING 😭💀

@brevin630 3 ай бұрын

This is the type of channel i like. Talking about obsucre early 2000s technology trends that i vaguely remember from my childhood. Subbed

@themanofteeth 3 ай бұрын

i remember wanting a phone with a slide out keyboard so bad

@Hexagonian 3 ай бұрын

i still do but they are either bricked or their specs are godawful, running a version of android from 5 years ago for some reason

@randomtinypotatocried 3 ай бұрын

I still miss mine

@Metzli 3 ай бұрын

I had one! It was so cool! But its screen broke kinda early so I feel like I didn't play a lot with it :(

@aidangreyskies 3 ай бұрын

I had a couple of them~ one had a keypad and setup similar to a blackberry and I had a purple cheetah print case on it. I miss it so much~ 😭 I loved when people would ask to use my phone and I'd slide it up all dramatically 😅

@felicityc 2 ай бұрын

@@Hexagonian yep, this. I love physical keyboards and I hate typing on touch screens. Back in 2010-2011 they rolled out more full keyboard phones and I had one for a while until I ended up getting a nicer newer touch screen phone... and those touch screens were absolutely terrible. later on they got better of course, but gosh. it was really bad for a bit. now I just avoid using my phone as much as possible... at this very moment I am even using google voice to call the county x3

@seanguy9720 3 ай бұрын

Nothing like opening up KZfaq trying to decompress after work, and getting greeted with Sonic and Rainbow Dash swapping spit. Thanks man

@christopherbrown7230 3 ай бұрын

I member

@ButtaDawg6969 2 ай бұрын

Wtf is that thumbnail

@MauseDays 2 ай бұрын

@@ButtaDawg6969 that thumbnail is the 2000s condenced into one picture ahahah

@yeoungmoh 2 ай бұрын

😂😂That was wat also made me click

@ButtaDawg6969 2 ай бұрын

@@yeoungmoh successful click bait

@SwedePotato314 3 ай бұрын

I graduated high school in 2005. I had like half of these phones lol. Around that time that was also super popular was the Boost mobile bleep bleep “where you at?” 2 way radio phone phase. My favorite phone was my blackberry storm or my LG chocolate. There were a few but there was NO better feeling than texting away on one of those and then calling someone and having that tactile feedback of hanging up on a call with the click, slide or flip of the phone. It was genuinely the best. I was 13 on New Years 2000 and around this time I think everyone got into the futuristic vibe. Like we thought by the year 2000 we’d have flying cars but we didn’t so everything was just made to look more futuristic through stuff like this.

@cursedbeans5560 2 ай бұрын

Honestly,great script,editing,jokes and you’re really expressive about the subject. 10/10 subbed

@Tanukikenken 3 ай бұрын

Didn't know you were so good at CGI. I've never seen a realistic phone like that floating in the background

@Someone69769 3 ай бұрын

its a wire that holds the phone, not cg

@Sapphire200 3 ай бұрын

@@Someone69769r/woosh

@michaelangeloabarreto4588 3 ай бұрын

@@Someone69769 nah dog. Definitely CGI

@ShyGuyGuyGuyGuyGuyGuyGuyGuyGuy 3 ай бұрын

@@Someone69769 nah it's cgi 100%

@Tanukikenken 3 ай бұрын

@@Someone69769 I'm a marvel fan, I know when something it's CGI

@daveg. 3 ай бұрын

I was the perfect age to experience the phones of the early 2000s. Old enough to dream of having one, but not old enough to actually be able to own one and realize how bad they were.

@elisehalflight 3 ай бұрын

Mood, early touchscreens sucked ass

@OldObscureUnpopularGames 3 ай бұрын

@@elisehalflightI had one touch screen/sliding keyboard phone that would unlock itself in my pocket all the time. The touch screens were sensitive to any sort of touch, it was awful 😭

@ren.pfa.99 3 ай бұрын

@Kasia3127 interesting. My first phone was a Sony Ericson and I had the exact opposite problem. You needed force to press the screen

@OldObscureUnpopularGames 3 ай бұрын

@@ren.pfa.99 It required force rather than actual skin contact but somehow would slide to unlock itself in my pocket during class, which is when I was barely moving. I have no idea why it did it so consistently, but no other phone was that bad lol

@creditcrazy597 3 ай бұрын

Dude I'm born to late to see flip phones anywhere and here I am wishing I had one of these

@Ju_Johnny_ Ай бұрын

as a millenial, this phones were always impressing me as a kid, so I started collected them. Now, 20 years later, I have more than 500 phones and I love the variety of the old models. Sometimes I take them of the shelf and just hold them and it feels so unreal. Yeah, it's strange, but it's okay

@AnonymousAnarchist2 6 күн бұрын

Its not any stranger then collecting stamps. Heck I'd say its less strange then collecting stamps.

@albtckl 3 ай бұрын

I feel kind of old here (43) so cell phones werent really a thing until after my freshman year of college, but I remember my first one was one of those Nokia bricks and i thought it was absolutely mind blowing lol. I guess i laid dormant for most of the 2000s though because i dont remember any of these. i transitioned straight from the Nokia to a Samsung Galaxy in probably 2016? That brick lasted forever.

@bjiru_ 3 ай бұрын

Oh my goodness to see a cell phone when it first became a thing must've been such a sight to behold I cannot imagine. Not everybody remembers these days of phones also, I'm just a nerd for tech ;P *also Your not old!! I feel like the internet and in life there is a notion a lot of the time that once your 30 your life's over haha, when that's just not the case, you barely even at the half way point, I hope you have such a good rest of it :)

@doedoewski1939 Ай бұрын

@@bjiru_shut your patronising youthful optimism

@BadgerOff32 Ай бұрын

I'm 42 and I got my first phone when I was at college. I think it was called a Nokia Ringo, and it was one of the first pay-as-you-go phones in England. That thing was horrendous, but it was just amazing to actually have a mobile telephone in my pocket! You couldn't remove the battery OR the sim card, they were both built in! That meant when the battery finally died, the phone would become useless. You couldn't send text messages on it at all, and it literally had no menus on it. I once took it to a phone shop to ask the guy how to access the menus and he said "um break the screen? That's the only way you'll get anything different on here!" If you wanted to change the ringtone you had to hold one of the number keys for a couple of seconds. It had 9 ringtones. That was literally all the functionality it had. It could make and receive calls, and you could change the ringtone. That was it. It was utter crap but I loved it! Still remember it fondly to this day.

@bkholch8179 Ай бұрын

I had a Sony Clie PDA and I felt so cool!!!

@FarfettilLejl 28 күн бұрын

@@bjiru_I was born in ‘85 and my first mobile phone was Alcatel one touch easy db. I remember a schoolmate of mine asked me ironically at some point if I was a businessman. I responded: no, why? “Then why do you have a mobile phone?”

@STREETFOODJOURNEY5 3 ай бұрын

I really miss these weird phones back in the day, but unfortunately I was poor and couldn't afford to buy

@lilartsy8369 3 ай бұрын

Real

@Brah027 3 ай бұрын

Same, being poor saved me a lot of money on tech that is now painfully outdated 😂

@Johnyknowhow 3 ай бұрын

you absolute trickster... the suspended phone by the wire at 2:00 I had simply tuned out as "aha... bjiru has superimposed a gif of a rotating GW520 - how awesome" until you GRABBED IT you will rue the day mr schemes

@Candyrock15 2 ай бұрын

You're so silly

@Johnyknowhow 2 ай бұрын

@@Candyrock15 thanks i try

@kamiiu 2 ай бұрын

8:56 why is this more advanced than actual phones now in days. id love a clear phone.

@thefelipevaldes 28 күн бұрын

It's not more advanced, it's just different, but very limited, like a monochromatic screen.

@Mecánico358 3 ай бұрын

Another great video, really captures the nostalgia of the 2000s’. I do miss those days of when tech was just customizable to fit your personality, and when you had a cell phone back then showed your status in school, now pretty much most downloaded apps are either a social media app, or rewards app.

@khaaaaaaaaan4580 3 ай бұрын

Blackberry was the pinnacle design, having a full physical qwerty keyboard and touch screen with trackball functionality was amazing.

@user-hx9gu5nh9p 3 ай бұрын

Nah they were awful but successful for lack of anything better. The user experience was a nightmare, the apps were so basic and useless. BB was not more than a trend, thankfully.

@SilverSpoon_ 3 ай бұрын

yeah, it's essential. I bought a Key2, the last one, it's decent and it's trustworthly, now there's Unihertz's Titan that works well on LineageOS or any alternative that are worth considering, dunno bout reliability; since it's chinese, BUT it's intresting.

@SilverSpoon_ 3 ай бұрын

@@user-hx9gu5nh9p dunno man, i still have a Q10 that works as a secondary phone, mostly for IRC and firefox as a default browser. Ah and WINAMP for the webradios. it literally spends its comfy retirement as a streaming device hooked to my hifi.

@sagewitts917 2 ай бұрын

Agreed

@sagewitts917 2 ай бұрын

The physical buttons allowed for an incomparable level of accuracy.

@Angelica_04 Ай бұрын

“Im very good at crossy road.” *dies* 😂

@ViciousFirearms 3 ай бұрын

My "craziest" phone from this era was the samsung alias 2. It had a e-ink keyboard that would change characters depending on what you were doing. It could open up like a traditional flip phone and also open up from the side if you wanted a more traditional keyboard experience. That thing was amazing! One of the best texting phones I ever used forsure.

@mind-of-neo 3 ай бұрын

I know these were always meant as experiments, but i want to always live in an era where you can get phones, computers, etc. In any shape and style imaginable.

@anicetune 3 ай бұрын

I owned the N-Gage. I was so incredibly proud of that device, until it stopped working literally 1 month after I got it. I returned it to the shop and they wouldn't do anything. I also got the N95, which to this day was the most beautiful phone I ever owned. I dropped that down the toilet 2 weeks after buying it and that never worked again. I then got the 6600 which I still have in my draw today - and it works brilliantly. Toughest phone ever! Forget the 3310. The most comfortable phone I ever owned though was the Sony Ericsson K800i (James Bond edition). It was beautiful and so cosy, like an extension of my arm. Pressing those buttons felt wonderful. I used to just lay on the carpet when I was younger admiring its curvy design and smooth texture. Even today, I miss that phone.

@bjiru_ 3 ай бұрын

aw man, sorry to hear about your other phones 😭 I can relate, laying on the carpet just admiring a phone or device you got, that takes me back man...

@av_oid 3 ай бұрын

No the N95 was awful, I had one. If you held it wrong it would turn off - the battery locking mechanism was dodgy. And the keyboard was useless. I quickly went to a Sony K850i and later a HTC Desire before going to the first “good” iPhone - the iPhone 4. The iPhones before the 4 were half baked IMHO.

@GoosterHiista 3 ай бұрын

I had the Nokia E70. Probably my all time favorite one of the classic type ones along with the 8210 which was absolutely tiny. I also had the 3300 which looked very much like an N-Gage and could play music and had radio, which was very awesome at the time. I remember listening to a rock station before sleep with my crappy headphones and waiting for a specific song so I could record it for later. Apparently they can go for over a 100$ second hand these days, I wonder if it's still at my parents house...

@d3drummerboy 3 ай бұрын

Me too it was a fairly forgettable and flawed piece of tech i got mine around 4th or 5th grade between the end of the gba era and just before i got the psp it was a strange & transitional time for tech

@akse 2 ай бұрын

@@av_oid The N95 had a very good camera though. I do remember my dads one had a tape on the battery cover too :) It was so good camera when I was looking for a new replacement for my dad it was difficult to find one with comperable camera. Eventually he got the 920 Lumia from my big brother which also had a very good camera.

@dmon007 Ай бұрын

Random KZfaq recommendation that I highly enjoyed. Good job man, keep up the good work! Subbed.

@BelleFlower15 Ай бұрын

I loved all those weird old phones. I don't miss when they all had different chargers and if you lost yours, you were SOL. 😂 And there would be tents at the fair with just boxes up on boxes of phone cases for every possible model. It was a treasure hunt. We didn't have Amazon yet 😂

@Floofie_boi 3 ай бұрын

I got to say I clicked because of the thumbnail, and I stayed for the content. your clickbait worked and the content was enjoyable. thank you.

@bjiru_ 3 ай бұрын

The rainbow dash x sonic always gets em’ Also thank you so much :3

@ButtaDawg6969 2 ай бұрын

I mean it worked on me too...

@aabhasharma8225 3 ай бұрын

My husband and I were teenagers when the first cellphone experimental designs were coming out. He was so obsessed with all the cool new designs and we would try them all out and delight in all the engineering as well as the bright Color’s and borderline kitschy designs. Touch screens ruined the fun, bring back buttons! Also the tiny phones were so dainty and fit into my tiny purse. They came in jelly glitter finishes…miss those cool shapes too.

@sandrin0 21 күн бұрын

The through-line between all these weird, extremely 2000s flavoured phones I think is a lack of optimization. Phones now do everything we could possibly want them to do, and so we have come to expect this of them, and so they need to be able to maintain this performance, and the "glowing rectangle" paradigm is probably the best way to do so. The incredible number of completing constraints placed on modern phone design have resulted in what is probably the optimal shape for a "do everything" device whereas before, these devices just needed to perform the basic actions of a phone: calling, and then eventually texting. Something that only needs to be able to do these basic things can take an absolutely wild number of different forms, and so optimization becomes far less necessary or even desirable. I don't think I'd want to give my glowing rectangle up for something shaped like a coffee crisp, or a makeup thingy, or even a star trek communicator, but I truly do miss that feeling of variety

@it_me23 Ай бұрын

No Unpacked or keynote event has made me as hype as this video right here. I'm shouting and cheering alone in my living room 😂

@KraXoom 3 ай бұрын

I’m glad I was a teen back then and got to experience some of these phones. It was an unusual time of experimentation but also a beautiful time we will never see again.

@summernightfalls 3 ай бұрын

I had a Samsung flip phone through Verizon that had a camera in the middle of the hinge that you could rotate to face you and turn outwards to take pictures. Samsung did selfies way before they were called that. It was my favorite

@compassrose1466 3 ай бұрын

That’s such a rad concept omg

@Lacey_Ann 3 ай бұрын

My mom had that phone (but i think it was LG), &I was obsessed with taking pictures with it. And I had another phone that was Virgin Mobil and when the flip phone was closed you could use the camera one the front and see yourself on the screen. All super awful quality but still, I remember taking selfies way before iphones lol

@pepperedwithlegacy 3 ай бұрын

I had that same phone! But I went into the ocean with it in my pocket after having it for like 3 months and it basically became a shitty salt crystal 🥲

@bhasitl 3 ай бұрын

This video actually made me subscribe to the channel tho I never saw this channel before! It was exactly what I needed. I always loved the 2000s gadgets for their experimental looks!

@06boot 3 ай бұрын

Super entertaining video. The special effect with the turning phone in the background you suddenly picked was the cherry on the cake.

@David-lt6lt 3 ай бұрын

Going to the phone store used to be such a fun adventure when younger. So many choices and so many new ideas you never knew what you were going to see once you had your current phone for 2 years and got to get an upgrade.

@zahemi914 27 күн бұрын

Totally agree.....used to spend hours just to admire the variety designs they had back then

@marsgannon4891 3 ай бұрын

I'm a simple woman, I see a video about the golden age of phones, I click on it. I'm kind of obsessed with this era of phones and there isn't a day that goes by that I am not devastated by the shutdown of 2g and 3g networks in the US. What I wouldn't give for a slider phone or unique flip phone that could work on US networks! I used a Kyocera 902kc for a while and I absolutely loved that thing so much, but the lack of Google maps made life a little too difficult for me as I rely heavily on real time traffic info in my area. I'd LOVE so much if there was more diversity in phones in the US. Even just something simple like the Galaxy folder 2, an android flip phone with a touchscreen, would be a dream for me. I hope one day that phone companies start to see that there is absolutely a US market for "unique" devices outside of the smartphone standard model.

@bjiru_ 3 ай бұрын

Ah, I never even thought about how you just cant use older phones now with the lack of infrastructure, that is so sad, I was also looking at the Galaxy Folder, can it not be used in North America or something?

@cora8264 3 ай бұрын

That was exquisite when the subscribe button lit up exactly as you said the word at 17:25… thought I was seeing things at first 😮

@Ronjayw 2 ай бұрын

The insane thing is…. I’m born in 2009 and I never got this experience yet I still miss this funky and futuristic types of phone design😞 I hate the effect of normality

@notryan8410 3 ай бұрын

ah when phones actually had a personality of their own, i remember fondly the time i received my hand me down Nokia N95 8GB for my 10th birthday back in the day that i used all the way to 2012. good memories.

@ch4lk250 3 ай бұрын

man you have such a friendly and fun way of being, it really makes the subjects you talk about entertaining to watch. instant sub

@Melvito2 Ай бұрын

This brought back many memories. When I was in high school my friends and I would sit and look at the cell phones’ newspaper ad and talk about which ones we would buy when we got to college (phones back then were not something everyone had). I remember I wanted a model that came briefly and was sold for being the tiniest phone, because back then the thing was to make them as small as possible, contrary to now. It was a race for gimmicks and aesthetics. Nokia of course was always the best until the more modern phones took over.

@suspiciouschicken 2 ай бұрын

7:20 this badboy looks like it was inspired by the minox spy camra from the 60s and the camera worked exactly the same so it is proof that designs from times gone can be reused and repurposed successfully So you never know in the future we could start seeing early 2000s style phones again

@noveywovey 3 ай бұрын

dude this is such a good video!!! the editing is so like engaging and omg... the transparent phone my beloved..... i want one so bad

@sleepywin3436 3 ай бұрын

the edit is sooooo "poppy" and its so cool hahaha

@redcoat6698 3 ай бұрын

Never watched any of your videos before but man, I absolutely adore your editing style. It's so bombastic and fun--one could call it cool even!

@SandroGiallella 3 ай бұрын

Did anyone remember the Nokia N93 from their Nseries-line which was looking like am camcorder? It came out in 2006 and it was the most advanced camera phone from Nokia at the time of its release and it was mind-blowing. It was running Symbian OS and had a 3.2-megapixel camera, Carl Zeiss optics and 3x optical zoom.

@wwondertwin 3 ай бұрын

2000s were the Cambrian Explosion stage of phone evolution. There was another similar period when electricity was discovered and harnessed, all sorts of insane electrical trinkets and contraptions flooded the market. But most of them didn't make it to our days. That's how it goes with all things, living and inanimate. I had so many of the phones shown in the video. I had two different models of the Nokia that opens into side keyboards, and the very first Nokia with permanent side keyboards that was advertised for gaming. That might have been 1999 even, I know I was at school still. And I had some Sony Xperia, too. A new phone every year at least. Edit: oh yes, I had the NGage, too! But the NGage is a few steps forward from the original Nokia gaming phone intended for playing Snake. I had that one first lol. The Communicator I skipped, but the first proper internet phone I had was the Nokia that came out around the first iPhone, I think E66? It was very pretty and my last Nokia, swapped to Galaxy after that.

@PolygonDonut 3 ай бұрын

oh my god this video was so good, i love all those gizmos and gadgets 😁😁😁

@fatine7290 3 ай бұрын

I have a feeling you'd LOVE the When Phones Were Fun series by Mr Mobile here on youtube

@themollymachine 22 күн бұрын

Bro 2003 was a great year for cell phones when I was 19... So many different types of cell phones and they were all really cool. My girlfriend at that time worked in a cell phone store at that time

@EleventhKyber 2 ай бұрын

i really love all these different designs so much!! i had a flip phone growing up and i always liked messing with the sliding feature lmao

@yaddayaddayadda3 3 ай бұрын

flip phones are having a renaissance and i think eventually were gonna have analog keyboards back in some way or form

@kundasemkundatam7461 3 ай бұрын

Lack of real keyboard is the only reason I have to use 6.7" large so-called "phablet" to type as fast as on any Siemens I ever used.

@noahpiccini9852 3 ай бұрын

2:21 That was pretty smooth ngl

@LYME-Y2K 2 ай бұрын

Love your channel. The amount of nostalgia you show is everything I use in my life right now LOL. 💯

@GammaBeta656 3 ай бұрын

The thing that blew me away the most in this video wasnt the phones, it was the fact that the LG Breeze in the background wasnt a 3D model spinning for shits and giggles and was, in fact, physically there.

@trooper420wSw 3 ай бұрын

not often do i put my hand on my mouth when watching a youtube video, seriously, you are the future of editing + the topic was extremely interesting and something i've been thinking about myself great job, man, 10/10 vid

@arahmaneldesouki 3 ай бұрын

You’re the embodiment of adhd, and my youngest cousin, and I’m here for it lol

@Xottapchenko 3 ай бұрын

Nokia 7280 actually took inspiration from stuff in women’s purse on vacation - small camera (possibly 110 film camera) and mascara to inspire the camera and the body, lipstick to inspire the rolling control wheel

@jessicayuan9016 2 ай бұрын

When I was a kid I kinda dreamed of sharing the Windows experience on the phone smoothly like the sci-fi scenes. Now look at what we get. Windows and IOS fighting againt each other in front of us, passive aggressively blaming the customer for not being "loyal" to only one of them so they will together "punish" me with the experience nightmare.

@AngelaVonTokyo 3 ай бұрын

I truly miss the era that they weren’t just screen bricks . We don’t need to simplify everything 😢

@user-hx9gu5nh9p 3 ай бұрын

Actual phones' design is not a simplification, it's the design answer to a very complex problem.

@rafdaute 3 ай бұрын

the way you edit your video essays is so whimsical and cool all the lil motion graphics and visuals i love it!

@6sentient 3 ай бұрын

Born in 1995, I've head the pleasure and an opportunity of growing up in 00s and having a few of these fever-dreamy beauties. My favorite ones were Nokia N95, Nokia X3,Motorola V3 and Sony Ericsson K850i. Having to choose which 3min song will I store because of 6MB memory, making a maze of folders to stash p*rn, the sheer audiovisuals of 1 new message that blocks the whole screen...Sweet problems. I even remember being jealous of people with Siemens having orange screens because my Alcatel had only blue one 🤣

@solarstevie 3 күн бұрын

15:42 "expand dong" surprised me so much, I had to rewind and make sure I wasn't making it up in my head.

@GrantSoundsGood 3 ай бұрын

Holy ham and eggs!!! i havent seen that iphone concept in years!!!!!! thank you so much for resurfacing all this. keep it up sir!!!

@matrucious 3 ай бұрын

Oh no! I was late this time 🥲 Anyway; I feel you keep getting better every time, still! The pacing is so on point, and the editing is way more professional than it should be as a single person making videos :3 Great video as always!

@bjiru_ 3 ай бұрын

your still plenty early haha, thanks for always watching and saying such nice things, glad I could teach you something, hope your april was swell

@Reyvion 2 ай бұрын

Imagine if companies went on to keep the flip-phone styles until it was the only option to pick on the market. Carrying mini laptops would be really cool.

@LucienVonKreuz 15 күн бұрын

I really like your style, keep up the good work! I used to work selling cellphones on walmart around 2010, I remember the Samsung Galaxy Beam and also the first Samsung that was "water resistant", there was an Alcatel phone that looked lake a mirror and we had phones with giant numbers for the elderly

@aTaryum 3 ай бұрын

That transitioning era was something else, everyone, and I mean, EVERYONE, was throwing stuff at the wall to see what stuck. I happen to own a device running Windows Mobile called the iMate JASJAR, that thing might as well not have existed because documentation for it is very scarce. Have you even heard of a company called iMate? It's a PDA with phone capabilities, it has front and rear cameras, a stylus and a keyboard, it flips kinda like a Nintendo DS but also the hinge on the screen makes it rotate so that you can use it as if it was a modern phone (it even detects from that hinge the orientation the screen should use, landscape or vertical). Sadly the battery has died a long time ago and replacements are impossible to find. Still, it's a really nifty little thing even if it has to stay plugged to the wall, a lot of thought went into the design but other than being cool it's just another PDA in a sea of Windows Mobile devices. While I miss the experimentation era, at the end of the day it ended as it should have: something stuck on the wall and that thing was the iPhone.

@MarvinMakesArt 3 ай бұрын

I HAVE AN IMATE TOO!! IT STILL WORKS

@aTaryum 3 ай бұрын

@@MarvinMakesArt ah nice! Might as well ask, does the battery work? If so, do you know where to buy it? Maybe a compatible one

@MarvinMakesArt 3 ай бұрын

@@aTaryum mine works. Nope idk where to buy one. Its the original battery

@Cappyey 3 ай бұрын

@@MarvinMakesArtjesus, how is that battery still alive?

@axelm4164 3 ай бұрын

I think you can rebuild the battery using another that matches the same voltage and current rate of the original.

@NijiDash 3 ай бұрын

Thumbs up and subscribed, especially for that Sonic x Rainbow fanfic haha!

@MrInuhanyou123 2 ай бұрын

As someone who lved through the entirety of the 2000s and was old enough to be conscious of all of it, it is so surreal to have people talk about it like people used to talk about the 80s or 70s

@opallangton853 3 ай бұрын

Sick video!!! I love the editing. I had the LG chocolate but I desperately wanted the blackberry pearl just because of the tiny roller ball

@haazmat 3 ай бұрын

I love these videos. Keep being -cool- swell

@emradford5173 3 ай бұрын

This video is pure nostalgia for me, I had so many of these 😂 You’re so right too - Phones now are boring. We had awesome phones in the 2000’s! I miss the innovation, fun, edginess and creativity of phone designs. And I swear our phones were our first intros to fidgeting! Always sliding, flipping, rotating. It was so much fun.

@FoxerTails 3 ай бұрын

Lest we forget that during the early 2010s, we kinda got the best of both worlds for smart phones. My first ever cell phone that I could actually call my own and not my parents was a Samsung Replenish. It had a physical keyboard as well as being the typical Android phone of the time with a touchscreen. After that, I also had a Motorola one with a vertical sliding keyboard and then later a Kyocera one with a horizontal sliding keyboard. And again, both with touchscreens and the Android OS of the time.

@realpauldano 3 ай бұрын

bjiru i have a hyperfixation on blackberry this made my day

@bjiru_ 3 ай бұрын

hell fucking yea, sorry for no blackberry mention, I also love the blackberry, just couldnt find any """CrAzaY" ones

@realpauldano 3 ай бұрын

@@bjiru_ personally i think the ‘crazy’ blackberry was the blackberry storm where it was touchscreen but the entire screen pressed down to simulate the click from the keyboard of prior generations ^__^ they were all broken and basically every single one was returned and it’s argued to be the reason they don’t make phone today

@bjiru_ 3 ай бұрын

@@realpauldano oh my goodness I had no idea that is fucking cool, what an interesting idea

@realpauldano 3 ай бұрын

@@bjiru_ hehe or the blackberry bold which had a trackpad on the main button ^__^ sort of like the laptop nipple! many of them were touchscreen, but i prefer navigating with the trackpad

@artysalt 3 ай бұрын

My first phone was a Sony Ericsson W300i flip phone! Looking back, up until the late 00's, the average non tech-savvy consumer hardly thought about what was inside their phone. Today the average joe casually asks what CPU a phone has. What has happened since? Back then, phones were competing by design gimmick, whereas today there is fierce competition, but the exact same design. Sure, I miss those wacky designs too! But it's only about hardware now and I believe this is a positive thing in the end. Great analysis and presentation. Subscribed :)

@nanachan778 3 ай бұрын

I just bought a “dumb phone” because I’m tired of my smart phone. I miss the flip phones.

@ETORERIGO 3 ай бұрын

Came for thumbnail, stayed for the history

@elvysokwl3227 3 ай бұрын

15:28 Garbage Truck.

@zackshaeffer49 3 ай бұрын

I’ve never seen this dude until today but for some strange reason, he gives me Dr Evil vibes 😂😂😂. And for that reason, I’m subscribing

@brenotanure3336 2 ай бұрын

4:49 This is the info my subconscious needed to know for the past 15 years. THANK YOU

@jemjam4077 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the nostalgia I didn’t even know I had

@TaccRaccoon 3 ай бұрын

Can we address the thumbnail

@bjiru_ 3 ай бұрын

oh yeah the vaio in ther? or maybe the moto v70? oh or the nokia 7600? thats it I think, cant think of anything else, nothing else really there that would be in call of any attention I believe to my knowledge

@nichole6135 3 ай бұрын

Literally lol'd 😂😂😂😂

@KenzersCollie 3 ай бұрын

you clicked on it 🐠

@nichole6135 3 ай бұрын

@@KenzersCollie so true 🤣

@babygravey 2 ай бұрын

Also 9:49

@aromanticfranziskavonkarma 2 күн бұрын

ah yes, the n-gage, short for **reads smudged writing on hand** nicholas gage

@itskitty808 3 ай бұрын

Omg this brings back memories! I have a 2 sliding phone in high school, one that slid up down, and one that slid on the side. Also, you forgot to mention The Razor! How could you forget that? It's the most iconic phone of the 2000s!

@DDRWakaLaka 3 ай бұрын

17:00 I mean, isn't this basically what they tried doing with curved smartphones anyway?

@kirathefae 3 ай бұрын

Just want you to know that your excitement over the garbage truck was what got you the subscription. Adorable.

@HannesA-my3xp Ай бұрын

Damn, I just realized how old I am . My 1st phone was a Nokia 2110. I got it in 1994 when I was in the 8th grade. It was literally the size of a brick. It had one game on it called snake.

@DXPetti Ай бұрын

I actually had a Nokia 7600. Absolutely horrid to use. Ended up moving to the E61. Love love love this entire video. I miss the creativity of thic technology era. Hell, even early smartphone era was fun while Apple, Microsoft and Google fought for dominance

@TheFlexTapes 3 ай бұрын

I had a ngage! My god it was amazing! First person in my school to have mp3 quality music. You could record directly from the radio!

@GavinAstraWolf 2 ай бұрын

5:32 Doppio when he's getting call from the boss

@bjiru_ 2 ай бұрын

Hold on I gotta look his up

@bjiru_ 2 ай бұрын

Hahahah

@Poyostar 28 күн бұрын

Gosh, these experimental phones are so charming. I'd love to see these designs make a comeback, but that's incredibly unlikely at this point. Indeed, we can't rewind, for we've gone too far...

@eleanor6747 Ай бұрын

i would abandon my iphone in a heartbeat if the tmobile sidekick was ever brought back with modern phone capabilities

@matternst1442 2 ай бұрын

When I got my first phone for Xmas, everyone kept telling my parents “cell phones are for drug dealers” 😂

@yomomma6633 Ай бұрын

I had one of those sliding keyboard phones and I remember this one app I loved that was literally just dice that you could shake the phone to roll

@GreenShadowCat Ай бұрын

Funnily enough I met one of the people who was on the team designing the Siemens Xelibri 6 at a place I worked at recently (not Siemens). He was there as part of a workshop on failed products and he told us about some of his personal experiences including the Xelibri 6. As far as I can remember he said that Siemens tried to market the Xelibri as more so an accessory than phone, that you would carry along with your regular phone. He also showed pictures of the launch party where they invited various celebrities, but I can't remember any of those.

@skullspirit6472 3 ай бұрын

I remember that one or a few of nickelodeon not-so old shows actually had transparent smartphones, and though they dont work at all, obviously its a prop, still it shows that some people also shared the vision that transparrent smartphones would be dope af I also really love these videos of retro stuff, specially that its 2000-2010 stuff instead of 90s or 80s, finally something fresher

@morocsrblx2028 27 күн бұрын

I remember growing up and being dragged to the phone stores by my parents and they'd hand out cell phone samples and that would entertain me for months despite having no actual functionality. It was almost like the fidget toys of today

@MuscleCarLover 2 ай бұрын

They were all brilliant phones...for their time. We no longer have to choose what niche to dedicate ourselves to when choosing a phone. The closest any of us get these days to a Palm Treo is the Samsung S22-S24 Ultra. We're even in the era where budget phones have a good amount of power and storage. Making a new Xelibri for example would basically be like switching to a Lite Phone, though I do miss physical keyboards with individually raised buttons, that was fun to type on