Remember The Taco Phone?

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In 2003, Nokia declared war on Nintendo with the N-Gage, a Game Boy Advance lookalike with a Series 60 mobile phone inside. The conflict - to put it mildly - did not go in Nokia's favor. With a cumbersome design that required the owner to remove the battery in order to change games, the N-Gage wasn't exactly user-friendly, and with only a handful of available titles to the Game Boy Advance's 1,200, the N-Gage ecosystem hardly justified the device's $299 asking price. Worse still: the phone's earpiece was mounted on its spine, making for a bizarre look and feel when it came to voice calls and leading to the unfortunate nickname "Taco Phone."
Needless to say, Nokia's N-Gage experiment did not go well. The company launched a sequel (the N-Gage QD) in 2004 and eventually repositioned N-Gage as a gaming platform that spanned its Symbian smartphone line, but it never gained the traction Nokia sought and the brand was shuttered in 2010.
Today, the original N-Gage is a monument to the days when new form factors flooded a nascent mobile market, and a still-dominant Nokia led the charge to pack ever more functionality into the humble cell phone. Join MrMobile for the Nokia N-Gage Retro Review - and if you owned one of these (or even if you just wanted one) drop a comment below with your story!
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Paste Magazine Nokia N Gage Retrospective:
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@TheDarknight2222 7 жыл бұрын

Forget about the phone. I'm shocked because the way you looked in 2003

@Radnamrok 4 жыл бұрын

Gosh. I revisited that moment in the vid like 2 times.

@laleixo 4 жыл бұрын

Thought it was only me that "WAIT WHAT?!?" at the vid. Now I can't unsee it 😂

@JayAyers 4 жыл бұрын

I had to pause it and wondered silently for a moment. The early 2000s was an interesting period.

@nathandegroot6490 4 жыл бұрын

@@JayAyers emo and goths and stuff is still a thing

@djdondatta2784 4 жыл бұрын

dude wasnt dude then lol

@JerryRigEverything 7 жыл бұрын

My VERY first phone was the phone you see at 4:03 - that full keyboard was amazing.

@AbhisekSarmah 7 жыл бұрын

Hi Jerry, you're the coolest!

@saideivr47 7 жыл бұрын

Why not subject that phone to one of your durability tests?

@ganjabobby 7 жыл бұрын

+saideivr47 No way! It's irreplaceable. Even if he's still got it, it wouldn't last any of durability tests he does: it would scratch easily (plastic screen); it would melt under a lighter; it would snap at the hinge depending on how he'd bend it. I think it would perform well in drop tests though as all Nokias did with those external shell casings.

@anoopgujjar 7 жыл бұрын

Jerry, the coolest part was when the backlight of the full keyboard turns on. It was so cool and one of the best-looking phone.

@aslamrasheed 7 жыл бұрын

What was that model??

@jeromedanvers8559 7 жыл бұрын

I had an Ngage, probably one of my favourite phones of all time! Everything you described at the end was why it was such a great phone. Phones back then weren't allowing you to connect via usb and use them like a portable drive and then transfer music and videos over to them. The games weren't the best but they were enough. I do remember thinking how stupid it would be to use the phone like that but you could use with the screen facing your cheek and calls would sound normal. I really do miss these days of bold ambition from mobile manufacturers Thanks for the nostalgia Michael!

@LucasVanderBartlett 4 жыл бұрын

I used to listen to random radio stations at night for no reason, I played Pandemonium so much on my device.

@collinsgichuhi8255 4 жыл бұрын

2003 Mr Fisher: What is life 2020 Mr Fisher: Is Phone X worth your money?

@tapsumbong49 7 жыл бұрын

Damn Michael, mad respect for you for having the courage to share that blunder years photo of you!

@TheMrMobile 7 жыл бұрын

Ha! That wasn't my everyday '03 look; I was in costume and makeup for a student film. Still, I figured it was too good not to share.

@GenghisKhanPolitics 7 жыл бұрын

I'm gonna see my therapist now

@icu___ 7 жыл бұрын

+MrMobile [Michael Fisher] link to student film please. 🎭 I remember waning one of these badly but they were far too expensive.

@harismechy92 7 жыл бұрын

2003 version of Michael fisher.. Dang..

@xilitla. 4 жыл бұрын

goth bf.... king behaviour

@supermilkchan123 4 жыл бұрын

@@xilitla. PERIOD 😌

@adhynugroho9424 3 жыл бұрын

DANG is right

@ardiansyahputra03 7 жыл бұрын

I miss the time when mobile phones not just square design

@GalaxyGamer-qn1mv 4 жыл бұрын

I miss the look even though im just a new teen but I can already think of spending days to choose the right phone by its design and looks

@brandonporter8509 4 жыл бұрын

I still can’t believe that this button layout was chosen given its inspiration

@stephenang499 4 жыл бұрын

They are still not square today. Where do you get square phones, mine and everyone else's is rectangular.

@Gandolfini666 3 жыл бұрын

Stfu

@geasocool 3 жыл бұрын

Lokal banget bro...

@shaod.cyvorgz4332 4 жыл бұрын

I still have one in my cabinet with a blazing fire cover on it. I keep it just to show in my future kids what dad's gaming phone looks like in his younger years. But for now, I need to get a wife.

@robertjohn9684 3 жыл бұрын

You will be single forever my friend

@ashleyncu 3 жыл бұрын

I wish I could get my hands on that phone again

@MohdFawzy 7 жыл бұрын

Dude this was my favorite gadget of all time, none of today's smartphones could give me the satisfaction the N-Gage did back then

@hjhiihjjhgguh 4 жыл бұрын

i can push every phone up my anus, it's enough satisfaction

@walterboyd1965 4 жыл бұрын

You're the first person I've ever heard say this, and that makes me happy.

@MeowtronStar 3 жыл бұрын

I loathe playing games on touchscreens, except puzzle games. My gaming PC is overloaded with games but my phone is pretty empty.

@RyanLiwe 3 жыл бұрын

Me too...

@KrodsASMR 3 жыл бұрын

Same! This was my first phone back in 2004!! I loved it with all my heart!😭🤩💞

@ZeSnark 7 жыл бұрын

Man, I always remember seeing the NGage section of my local GameStop back in the early 2000's. It was so small and neglected, haha.

@TheMrMobile 7 жыл бұрын

Sad! I remember thinking "58 games? Well that's not so bad" until I read that at the same time in '03, the Game Boy Advance had 1200 titles. Whoof.

@user-vr4nm6yx4i 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheMrMobile but have you ever heard vbag for Symbian s60v1 ? 😆

@MrBenediktXVI 7 жыл бұрын

I owned N-Gage QD and I loved every part of it... 2 other people in my middle school class had it and we spent whole year (s) playing Worms Armageddon multiplayer... It was awesome

@saifk3597 4 жыл бұрын

I had N-gage QD and it was literally the coolest phone at that time..and I was the guy who possessed the coolest phone in school.

@Fayyadh888 7 жыл бұрын

At least it has a headphone jack..

@Matticitt 7 жыл бұрын

It's 2.5mm tho, if I remember correctly, so you'd still need an adapter :P

@Dennn90 7 жыл бұрын

It has two of them! One is borrowed from iphone 7 probably.. (Actually one is regular stereo 3 pin, and another is nokia's 4 pin headset).

@MegaJoojee 7 жыл бұрын

no it is audio in and audio out. I got 2 of those. you could use strange cable that was 2.5 to 3,5 and attach it to your music player and record the audio live like you woud do with c caset :D:D just to add that was propably because as you can see there is no usb or anything so even it has an mp3 player how are you actually gonna get music in to it :D that was actually a problem at early 2000 and their solution is pretty clever, I dont know any other phone that coud do that. ofc you could just take the memory card off and put it in pc but again its 2003 and not many pc's have an sd card slot.

@Dennn90 7 жыл бұрын

mtkl23 Nope, have 4 n-gage classics and 3 QDs, classic has gray and black jacks on it, gray is a standart nokia mono and microphone, black is 3 pin stereo jack that also works as line-in, stereo is only used in standard audio and fm apps. It also has regular miniusb on the side and works as removable drive so you can upload any files on it, also you can use card reader to place files on mmc card that is also supported.

@FlyingV555 5 жыл бұрын

Fayyadh suliman unlike the iPhone 7

@danielmaguire4113 7 жыл бұрын

I prefer the burrito phone

@TheMrMobile 7 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure the "Fajita Phone" brand would do well, somewhere.

@jccoello 7 жыл бұрын

@mr mobile is there any chance for you the review that "lipstick" nokia?

@TheMrMobile 7 жыл бұрын

That would be awesome but I don't think it'd make for the most compelling video. It ... it didn't have a screen, did it?

@johny1220 7 жыл бұрын

Beat me to it!!!

@jccoello 7 жыл бұрын

@mr mobile... actually it did have a tiny screen! just saw another video reviewing the menu and stuff... i can tell sending an sms was a huge pain in the butt!... another interesting thing is that as of right now its quite expensive... $140 at least on ebay

@TheNostalgicFuture 6 жыл бұрын

Just came across the channel. love it. I had an N-Gage QD for years. Emulators, music, it was a crazy time. I loved it.

@youknowwho5754 7 жыл бұрын

I subscribed to you because of this then expensive N-Gage gaming phone. Being a kid back then, i didnt have the opportunity to buy this but my friend had one. Retro reviews, pls keep it coming. Walkman series, N Series, Razr, Cybershot series n etc. That was golden era of mobile phones.

@lu933964 7 жыл бұрын

MrEMObile ha...ha...haa

@realMors 7 жыл бұрын

You can say what ever you want about Nokia. And specialy the young ones among us. If you're a 80's/90's-kid like me, then you know that back in the days, when it comes to gadget, pc's and other stuff. In the mobilephone devision, Nokia was king. But indeed..., they should've gone Android.

@MrCorrectify 6 жыл бұрын

One thing people don't mention, and Im glad you touched on, is that Symbian was a full OS. You could open up your web browser, go to your favorite band's website, download an MP3, find your download using a system file browser, and play the music using an app you installed from a symbian app database on the internet. That's on top of playing tony hawk with PS1 graphics, all on a smart phone in 2003 (the Iphone premiered in 2007)! The average consumer at that time had a flip phone and was jammin out to polyphonic ringtones.

@knightmayre 4 жыл бұрын

Loving these retro phone reviews, happy times. It was so exciting seeing the next reiteration of the mobile phone.

@MusicAndCars1 7 жыл бұрын

As someone who's owned a Nokia N70, an E66, a Lumia 525 and 830, and of course the classic 3210, it's always nice seeing a Nokia video ^^ Thanks for the vid Michael, I genuinely loved this. It's like a love letter from the past ^^

@amaan_shaikh 4 жыл бұрын

You just expressed my Feeling..!

@nienryu 7 жыл бұрын

Maybe do a memorial video for the Nexus line

@senormojorisin 7 жыл бұрын

Please do. In memoriam.

@hassanjamil1099 7 жыл бұрын

yes pls I would love that

@Jerry4050 7 жыл бұрын

yeah I hate it that the Nexus name is dead now

@MadFabricator666 7 жыл бұрын

I loved my ngage. I still have it put away somewhere

@ErykDante 7 жыл бұрын

YES PLEASE! :D

@JeffDvrx 7 жыл бұрын

lol that "ring ring ring, banana phone" song is still stuck in my head! also: grunge Michael Fisher

@moy2010 6 жыл бұрын

Hey, Michael! I really like your videos, keep up the good work! It's worth mentioning that the N-Gage was the first in many other technological areas, though you mentioned them just superficially: - The N-Gage was among the first true-smartphones, with a solid Operating System (Symbian 6.1) that was one of the first smartphone O.S. in the early 2000s (let alone the J2RE apps). - It was the first Symbian 6.X smartphone to incorporate a dedicated, hardware stereo audio decoder. This took ages for other models to catch up on this, which meant that the N-Gage was the first true music-player/smartphone out there. - Even if it seems like an outdated technology today, the N-Gage was the first handheld gaming console with wireless, multi-player capabilities with Bluetooth (local network) and GPRS (wide area network/internet) connectivity. - And last, but not least important, you could hold the N-Gage in a less-weird way, by positioning it flat to your face, and the speaker pointing to you ear :P.

@hobbozzrock 7 жыл бұрын

I saw a Palm Pre in the background. I loved that phone!

@TheMrMobile 7 жыл бұрын

That's a Pre3, waiting in the wings for its own retro review!

@ValenNitto 7 жыл бұрын

+MrMobile [Michael Fisher] would you do Sony Clie? The peg-ux50 was way way ahead of its time.

@lawldep 7 жыл бұрын

+MrMobile [Michael Fisher] can you do one on the god of all phones Nokia 3310

@ElPresidenteBuzzard 7 жыл бұрын

one of the best os's ever...

@enzyme20056 7 жыл бұрын

Show me more emo fisher please. Was this an everyday look?

@just__alexa 4 жыл бұрын

Knowing 2003 the answer is probably yes.

@theo7236 3 жыл бұрын

It wasn't. He said in another comment thread that it was for a student project.

@a7md707 4 жыл бұрын

My childhood phone!! You earned a sub. Thank you for the nostalgic moments

@itxofficial8281 7 жыл бұрын

Oh, and speaking of sharing my memories: I've had the N-Gage from December 2003 to November 2007, until I finally decided to buy a new phone. Not because the N-Gage was dead, it was (and still is) fully functional. I just felt that after all these years, I would've missed the bus in the tech world if I just continued using a Taco, while the glorious smartphone era was about to begin. Today, the infamous slice of bread sits on top of my mobile phone showcase, and it will always have a special place in my heart. You said that it was "way ahead of its time", and I absolutely agree with you. Here's just a few things this phone was capable of, while others were still rocking a monochrome display: - fully functional MP3-Player with headphone and speaker playback - Setting a song from the MP3 Player as your ringtone OR sms tone - RealOne Player for streaming audio and video, or playing back MP4 videos from the MMC Card - expandable storage via MMC Card (up to 2GB) - 3D Games with graphics similar to the PSOne - Speakerphone. No, not every phone used to have this back then!! - Mini USB port (the QD didn't have that anymore!!) - FM Radio - Audio recording from FM Radio or external sources via AUX cord. - WEB browser (no, not WAP!) The ONLY thing it lacked was a camera. But looking at other camera phones back then, this very new feature was more of a toy than a serious photography tool. In Conclusion, the Nokia N-Gage had everything I expected a phone to have. Although calling it a smartphone would be a bit of a joke, to me it always felt more like a Mini-Computer than just a phone. To this day, I miss getting a call on the bus and being the center of attention ;)

@jus10rox89 4 жыл бұрын

ITX Official thank you for that. This was my phone when it was first out too. I still remember all the guys in class asking me to pass them the N-gage and NCAA Football. Everyone enjoyed it. I still pull mine out each day to play a couple rounds of Tony Hawk. It plays brilliantly on the N-gage.

@obedchattergoon2780 7 жыл бұрын

0:03 No way! That is not you, that can't be you. You're just messing with us. Right ... right? Great video, keep up the good work. Not many people review devices from the past and it's nice to see the life we used to live before the modern smartphone era.

@itsPikachu 4 ай бұрын

Goth Micheal Fisher does not exist he can't hurt you Goth micheal Fisher:

@iLYK2PWN 7 жыл бұрын

I paused the first 3 seconds for a while. lmao

@realvivifromloona 6 жыл бұрын

ikr

@BishtrainerTai16 6 жыл бұрын

From scene to corporate drone.

@tangerinetech5300 5 жыл бұрын

@@BishtrainerTai16 you make that sound bad but he went from cult fallower to tony stark

@WR3ND 4 жыл бұрын

Mm-hm, still paused there... 🤔

@WR3ND 4 жыл бұрын

I'm gonna get some ramen.

@DedeFahruzi 7 жыл бұрын

this is one of the best gadget that my friend use in when i'm in high school. it's about 12 years ago and i still love it. the design wasn't mainstream. good review bro. hope someday nokia can bring someone special and not mainstream like this one

@reehaq 7 жыл бұрын

At the age of 13, this phone was my first love. I miss how phones were more than screens where others display their ads back then. I used absolutely every feature from the edit key for copy and paste to the dedicated fm radio button. I truly miss this phone.

@DCOneFourSeven 7 жыл бұрын

Yo can we talk about that amazing Michael Fisher 2003 picture!

@TechLineHD 7 жыл бұрын

I remember the times when I had a Motorola Talkabout T2288 and I was a tough kid in the 3rd grade of the primary school.

@Sinnicle 7 жыл бұрын

How am I just finding this channel now? Im so glad youre back!

@VeshSneaks 7 жыл бұрын

I had one of these. Traded it for the 7600 (3:56) and loved it. Got an RAZR for Christmas the next year and still carried the N-Gage because I had a 64MB MMC card, and the RAZR only had 5MB onboard. RIP Early 2000's Nokia, you were brilliant.

@ThePowerPCHub 7 жыл бұрын

Tomb Raider was great on the N-Gage.

@Nookiezilla 7 жыл бұрын

Ash was the shit. We played that local with 4 ppl

@Nookiezilla 7 жыл бұрын

Ash was the shit. We played that local with 4 ppl

@RichdroidJr 7 жыл бұрын

LMAO I just watched your latest vid before coming here

@PhilFernandes84 7 жыл бұрын

I played Asphalt, Skyforce and Pandemonium alot

@GrundkursBouldern 7 жыл бұрын

I never got used to the controls of Tomb Raider. I still don't get, why you could only choose between auto-running and standing. To me there were far better games like Pathway to Glory or Ashen, which was a solid shooter despite having arkward controls. I even liked The Elder Scrolls Travels: Shadowkey more. And this was basically a pile of loading screens. :D

@jerryldavis1823 7 жыл бұрын

Nokia would have kicked everyone's ass if they had chosen android as their os from the very beginning.

@hitssquad 7 жыл бұрын

There's still a chance. Nokia's coming back.

@skeptixgaming4876 7 жыл бұрын

Haha good joke

@mumenraider 7 жыл бұрын

ya might be but .. Nokia should had focused on Meego Os . I find it still better than than andriod

@olumideaanu5403 7 жыл бұрын

+Mukul shah I love my Nokia n9 meego

@Dannya2005 7 жыл бұрын

maemo was awesome

@smas06111992 4 жыл бұрын

These are great videos. Love the retro series

@PaulUrsachiDumitru 7 жыл бұрын

I still have in my collection! one of my best phones in 2003, mp3 player, video player, fm radio and games at the same time!

@fightnight14 7 жыл бұрын

Can't wait for the Note 7 retro review. I would BURST in happiness when I watch it

@thalamelvin 7 жыл бұрын

What do you mean by retro note 7😂😂.Are you in 2050?😆😆

@sawyerseth9832 7 жыл бұрын

heh heh... burst I see what you did there. I'm EXPLODING with laughter

@sawyerseth9832 7 жыл бұрын

***** bruh we were being subtle and punny and you just had to go and strait up say it. Dang it man

@sawyerseth9832 7 жыл бұрын

***** bruh we were being subtle and punny and you just had to go and strait up say it. Dang it man

@fightnight14 7 жыл бұрын

+Sawyer ben is a savage dude haha

@spitemeta 6 жыл бұрын

nokia's boldness and durability is why i STILL have a nokia phone today (my mum had a nokia 3310 and this other one where i could play a game where i was a ball of paint and paint buildings) then MY first phone was the 206 then the nokia lumia 930 then the 532 and now the nokia 3 (my dad also reckons nokia was the apple from before apple made phones)

@CeruleanStallion 6 жыл бұрын

Nice I had the Nokia C3 then the Nokia Lumia 610 then 930 and Now the Nokia 3 just like you

@ighea 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the awesome video! In my opinion N-Gage had two main problems which prevented it's success: the device itself was pricy and games cost too much. I think the main consumer targets were teens and at least I didn't have the money to buy neither of those. I got the device years after the release used and most of the games I still own too. I still miss the typing experience.

@zeeshansohail217 3 жыл бұрын

It was my first gaming phone and I was blown away with the Tomb raider title in it. I bought this phone for 3 times including QD. Your video brought Ngage memories back and again making me buy this phone. 😀👍🏻

@sujaykadrekar4941 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks to Nokia's many such "innovations", we have our great smartphones today. And it is the lack of innovation like this, that has brought stagnation to the smartphone market.

@Hans.Dewitt 4 жыл бұрын

you can already do so much with phones what else do you want them to do? drive you to work? we are already in the cutting edge

@FalconWindblader 4 жыл бұрын

Mobile phone tech has already more or less matured, yes, even back when this comment was made. Back then about a decade ago, phones were getting increasingly packed with features nobody knew they would've wanted. These days, phones are getting increasingly packed with features that EVERYBODY knows they WOULDN'T have wanted.

@mariofeared 4 жыл бұрын

One thing I rarely see mentioned when people talk about the N-Gage was all the java programs you could download for your phone. I had one and as much as all my friends would make fun of the taco calls, they would get jealous quickly once I showed them all the different emulators I had installed. Having a phone with mp3 player and a functioning NES, SNES emulators with lots of rooms was definitively what made my Ngage one of my favourite phones of all time.

@TamagonZ 7 жыл бұрын

I love your retro reviews, please do more.

@azh222 7 жыл бұрын

OMG!! I used to have the second version of the N.Gage in I believe 2005. I loved it sooooooo much. This brings back lovely memories! Thanks MrMobile for the video.

@kendallsmythe8744 3 жыл бұрын

I remember this. I wanted one when it came out. My friend had one. I wanted it mainly for the games but I was fascinated with the concept of a handheld device that could do so many things. Nokia really was ahead of their time.

@NoahSturis 7 жыл бұрын

This thing was all over the place in Denmark back when I was in elementary school in '03. Golly games on a smartphone have changed since then.

@TheMrMobile 7 жыл бұрын

Seriously? I don't think I've ever seen one in the wild here in the US.

@NoahSturis 7 жыл бұрын

Well the 1 million phones had to have gone somewhere, and Denmark, which is quite close to Finland, is around 5.5 million people total, soooo... Nokia 3310 was and always will be the king though.

@rentturaakki 7 жыл бұрын

Have to comment on this as im from Finland. Nokia n-gage was an dalegacy among those rich kids when we lucky ones had Nokia 5110, 3210 and 3310. Unlucky kids didnt have any kind of phone. Those days :) Thanks for the nostalgia Michael!

@noeyewar 7 жыл бұрын

The "unlucky kids" wanted a Nokia but got an Alcatel. I was one of them...

@andrequintas2465 7 жыл бұрын

My guess is that they've sold most of them in Europe. Back in the day I remember seeing a number of them among university students in Portugal.

@danieltrejo937 6 жыл бұрын

I had one of those phones back in 2008, and I have to say, it's one of the best phones I have ever owned 😊 great memories there!

@JoelPiccoli 7 жыл бұрын

these retro reviews are awesome!

@jcif23 7 жыл бұрын

Mike did you really looked like that or you're messing with us?

@69Solo 6 жыл бұрын

I was 1 of the 1 million. I had imported from Europe bought it from black market and it's still my fav phone ever. My friend bought qd after my purchase and that's his fav phone till date. Why Nokia why did you ditched us? 😭

@Archontasil 3 жыл бұрын

My favorite phone 3VER. I used it from 2004 - 2011. Gaming? I used it as a GBC emulator, MY longest lasting phone. And it still worked TO THIS DAY!! It survived water damage, falling countless times, teenage stupidity, and excessive use. It's amazing

@adityachaturvedi_sonicpower 4 жыл бұрын

My first phone was a Nokia N-Gage QD, the next version of this phone and boy what tech it had in those times where people were just only texting or calling or a little bit of internet. With the "GPRS" network speeds. Even then this device was way ahead of the time. Hot swappable game cards, online multiplayer gaming(yes, on a "G" network), bluetooth multiplayer gaming. The Symbian S60 platform with multitasking, with 16MB or RAM and a 104MHZ processor. On top of that S60 apps, user installable without a app store but yes from internet and side-load through the MMC card. It was crazy at that time. I remember, I have played most games launched for the phone and many were 3d. No other competitor could do what Nokia used to achieve with its devices.

@Granturion 7 жыл бұрын

Good old days. You could drop the phone and the ground was damaged :)

@hellmekun 7 жыл бұрын

i owned the NGage-QD and i LOVED it!! :D

@vivekaaraga 4 жыл бұрын

My first ever mobile phone in college! I loved this phone and I enjoyed using the quick access buttons to the music player and radio whenever I rode my scooter!

@vjruparel 7 жыл бұрын

this video some old memories are refreshing thank you so much

@Commentator541 6 жыл бұрын

You could record FM radio, listen to MP3s, play games, install apps, what else would anyone want?

@kerdnerl8588 4 жыл бұрын

Porn.

@LucasVanderBartlett 4 жыл бұрын

@@kerdnerl8588 WAP was the only mobile internet you had back then, it cost a lot to even get ASCII let alone anything else.

@raulmontanez3528 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but batteries for the time were not that good for all that. I had the same phone from the video and i used as a mp3 player, storaged in a 512 mb MMC card (it was 128 mb at first). And i had to charge the phone two times at day at least. To play the games, also you needed to take the battery out and insert the card of the games. I think i change the battery at least twice cause it got swollen. Still, i had this phone for about 5 or 6 years. After that i tried to get the HQ version, cause i really liked the phone and i didnt want to get a smartphone. But i juts couldnt get one.

@r104world 3 жыл бұрын

@@raulmontanez3528 n-gage QD???

@PhenomsServant4 3 жыл бұрын

The speaker on the front so you didnt look like an idiot talking into it.

@PatrickDKing 7 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't mind going retro on my daily driver.

@9392388886 4 жыл бұрын

I was so crazy about this phone, I really wanted one, but unfortunately couldn't afford it. Thank you so much for bringing back such a fond memory.

@eusebioescelante1659 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Michael for the nostalgic review and I still remember my brother playing Tomb raider on that phone. It was a Nintendo switch of that era.

@mohithmaratt8708 6 жыл бұрын

Nokia N8. 12 Megapixels with XENON flash. USB on the go. FM transmitter. HDMI Output. Anodized Aluminum. Built like a tank.

@atillafiliz6591 3 жыл бұрын

N900 was life. Similar, but with Maemo Linux instead of Symbian, and a sliding QWERTY keyboard.

@AchwaqKhalid 7 жыл бұрын

I still have it 📱🙌

@falloutforever88 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for making this, and yeah this was way ahead of it's time.

@mrunknown4702 4 жыл бұрын

I was a kid back then, my dad bought the 2 version of this phone and I spent my summer holidays playing on this all day long .. and as a kid I looked at the flaws .. it was just love !

@danishscientist 4 жыл бұрын

That was my most favourite phone....I cried when they discontinued it

@gadgetgrl76 7 жыл бұрын

I still have one.

@tomholton235 4 жыл бұрын

Loving this series, bringing back fond memories of browsing the Nokia website and seeing all the crazy designs. Can’t wait for the foldable era to really kick off and hopefully make phones fun again!

@maikdeutscher4528 4 жыл бұрын

I have still mine. I got it back in 2007 but didn't used it much because I didn't needed a phone back then but. I was beginning to use it in 2009 till 2013. All other kids and classmates where fascinated by this weird but cool dive, eventually it got replaced buy a galaxy s, it was a fun time. It still works fine.

@mrbrightside3771 7 жыл бұрын

I remember I wanted one of these so much. I was poor then.

@hmm2928 7 жыл бұрын

nokia was more innovative than apple? who agrees??

@Matticitt 7 жыл бұрын

Of course they were. Not to mention that Nokia phones occupy 8 out of top 10 best selling phones ever, and that Nokia sold more phones in two years than Apple sold all iPhones since their debut in 2007.

@Rahul-mv8lm 7 жыл бұрын

Definitely refining someone else's ideas are never called as innovation..

@fotina45 7 жыл бұрын

all the innovations that had to be done is done...its just engineering problems now

@georgediama5115 7 жыл бұрын

apple thinks that invents something but nah! the iphone 6,6s,7 are the same and removing the headphone jack isn't an inovation nokia did everything to a phone to be a phone make you to be comfrtable on speaking to someone on the phone but apple improves everything except the phone app, who needs better resolution or 3d touch tell me but you want better microphones earpieces better singnal and that can't be with an aluminum body

@highlysuspicious6417 7 жыл бұрын

Cause way back then. Apple didn't care about making a phone. Till they've decide to make one and unveil it on 2007. There was a huge demand for that phone cause it is the only phone that has an internal storage of up to 16gb. Was there a Nokia phone that has an internal storage and doesn't depend on MicroSD too much?

@satyabhan6548 11 ай бұрын

I had the successor Ngage QD, and I loved it so much! None of the phones now have that uniqueness and wow factor that we used to have when switching to a new device back in 2000s.

@dankhead88 7 жыл бұрын

For some reason, I pictured you as a NIN fan. Thank you for the awesome review Mr Fisher

@KENNETHCARNIE 7 жыл бұрын

Man, I wanted one so bad.

@dheah03 7 жыл бұрын

Can you pls do the Nokia 3310? Thats so iconic!

@RelyingWOrld1 7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Hope too some day

@pram5532 7 жыл бұрын

I hope he saves it for when we are out of phone news!

@Dontbeweakvato 7 жыл бұрын

that phone is boring. hope he saves it for when we all have insomnia.

@Intellmac 7 жыл бұрын

And 1100!

@kubiaxk 7 жыл бұрын

@ninadpunekar 7 жыл бұрын

thanks for bringing back my memories. keep it up Mr.mobile

@crunchyhobgoblin258 6 жыл бұрын

I had Ngage QD :) loved it as it saw me through college years.

@theshadowman1398 4 жыл бұрын

I have the QD model, that one is fairly tolerable. The design of the first one with the battery removal to swap the game was simply moronic, I have no clue how that was ever greenlighted at R&D.

@XP9724 7 жыл бұрын

Lmao Michael looked pretty interesting in 2003

@jatonium 4 жыл бұрын

I had an N-Gage QD, and I still miss it sometimes.

@Manu-uz3mp 4 жыл бұрын

I was waiting for this particular phone since you started this series .

@Neojhun 7 жыл бұрын

So Nokia failed to N-Gage Market Demand. (cringe intended)

@Views-sx4mn 3 жыл бұрын

Pun intended

@tanjiehao8125 7 жыл бұрын

Sweet vid Interesting phone to revisit

@TheMrMobile 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! And agreed ... it's one of the stranger phones I've ever handled.

@thalamelvin 7 жыл бұрын

Mr Mobile if possible review a device called nokia n900 uses the technology that doesnt compare to todays android and ios.

@o-zone1217 3 жыл бұрын

3 years ago, YT recommend me in 2020, gad.. And nGage was cool when i was in school, nice review. Btw you deserve more subs and views!

@fitrasony 3 жыл бұрын

bought a secondhand n-gage few years after it launched, mainly because my friend bought an i-pod touch and showed me music videos on it.. couldn't remember the name of that .flv player for symbian back in the days, but i was so proud to have a cheaper i-pod touch to watch music videos that i liked..

@A1140NE 7 жыл бұрын

myngage qd is still working .

$@RefractArt$

@RefractArt 7 жыл бұрын

Frankly, i'm still using my N-GAGE QD, solid build, long lasting battery...

@Krystalmyth 6 жыл бұрын

RefractArt Once you nail the aerodynamics you can take out a target at 20 yards and recover it without a scratch. Has some odd spin though at certain angles, but easy kills with some practice.

@chrismorse3862 5 жыл бұрын

@@Krystalmyth har!

@raulmontanez3528 5 жыл бұрын

I had the N-Gage (the first one) in 2006. A friend used to work in a Call Center back then and since the phone had horrible sales, they offer it to the employees for 800 pesos (like 70 bucks at the time). So he sold it to me. It came with 4 SD games, Tony Hawk, Sonic, Soccer game and i dont remember if the other one was call of duty. I play a lot the soccer game, but i still have the original SD cards. About the phone, i used as an Ipod, and it was actually.... perfect. I bought a 128 mb SD card and just put a lot of music on it. It worked great untill 2011 when it started to turn off randomly. Few years later i tried to get an N-Gage QD but since it was too "rare" for the time...it was to expensive. I actually have good memories lol.... i remember playing the shit out of Panic at the disco´s first album.

@kforkrish 4 жыл бұрын

I also have my Ngage QD in my closet... i do use for emergency occasions only

@kabosumamadoge1818 4 жыл бұрын

@@raulmontanez3528 yeah same here but with the original. i got a qd before but i sold it since the mp3 output is only monotone compared with the original. i still keep two of it right now for occasional use and for the nostalgia

@TeacherPauloPontes 4 жыл бұрын

Oh man, I have such great memories of my n-gage QD!!! I wouldn't only play n-gage originals, I would emulate game boy, mega drive, nintendo in it... I made sure I had a big sized memory card to fit everything in! The only major problem I had with it: I could only connect it to a PC via bluetooth, no cable.

@Justinestabrook 4 жыл бұрын

I have a prototype complete and working with the Tomb Raider prototype also in surprisingly near mint condition. Found it shoved back on a shelve in my usual thrift store. Didn't have a price on it which means 99% of the time they wouldn't sell it to you until they "reprice" it and put it back out which means you will never see it again. I had to do what I had to do and carefully peeled a $2.98 sticker off another item and put it on there. Call it theft or whatever you will but I absolutely was not leaving it at that store! I've spent more than my fair share of money at that store for over 25 years. I never knew if the phone worked for a few months until I was in a customer's attic and saw a bunch of old cell phone accessories. I asked them if I could go through the box and picked out some choice pieces and among them was the original charger. Gave them $5 and finally was able to enjoy the phone. I would love to find more N-Gage items out in the wild but I have not seen anything. I hate resorting to Ebay. Anyone let me know what you have that you would like to sell.

@MrValaras 7 жыл бұрын

Are we not going to talk about that pic?

@shashanklaur507 7 жыл бұрын

Back when OEMs at least tried to be innovative.

@SuperFam12345 6 жыл бұрын

Great as always Michael love the passion you put in your review.... and that gothic look you had DAMN never go back there.... HAHAHA.. I can't say much I was there once to. Great review.