The Disney Cell Phones - America Edition

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11 ай бұрын

Thanks to Ryan Bennett for lending me these!
Today we're going to explore a couple of the cell phones that were available during Disney Mobile's short-lived time in the U.S.
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@ring_row 11 ай бұрын

a video about old crappy cellphones is exactly what i needed to procastinate my exams

@harriska 11 ай бұрын

Good luck! Just finished my GCSEs today

@robertsteel3563 11 ай бұрын

Please keep procrastinating! :P

@danielespandri9970 11 ай бұрын

omg, I'm in the same situation

@ring_row 11 ай бұрын

@@danielespandri9970 sessione estiva

@betoniera 11 ай бұрын

@@ring_row io invece ho la maturità 😔

@lenk1432 11 ай бұрын

Using emergency family alerts for free texting is so funny

@CaptainApathetic 10 ай бұрын

What's even funnier is that SMS basically uses no extra resources bc it piggybacks off other signals so limiting the number of texts was solely for profit.

@aribantala 9 ай бұрын

I remember back when in my place, despite SMS texting was so cheap (if I remember correctly, it was like USD 0.1 cent per character), Network providers still sold "data plan" for Texting, which charges you, like, 10 cents per message... Not per character And I still kinda don't get it even today lol, an SMS was like, 250-300 characters max, and when we use all of that character, that's 25 cents to 30 cents per text... That's a long wall of text even for me. I use SMS to say something like "Meet me at McD by the park in 10" or something like that, which is 3 cents at most lol

@okamithelucario 11 ай бұрын

"And speaking of restrictions raid sh- just kidding" lmao best part so far, I love these videos

@dilianvt 11 ай бұрын

I legit thought he was sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends until I freaking realized that he didn’t stumble his words and tried to make a surprise joke about restrictions

@tswan137 11 ай бұрын

Lmao 💀

@RobertTheGamer8 11 ай бұрын

8:31

@EnifOfficial 11 ай бұрын

yeah

@Skiedeagle 11 ай бұрын

You can probably extract the ringtones from the phones somehow and submit them to the phonetones archive so we can hear them in their crisp glory.

@ethanjchoo 8 ай бұрын

That's what I'd like, too.

@Markimark151 11 ай бұрын

I remember Disney Mobile, I went to Disneyland in 2006, it was being heavily advertised and promoted to family travelers! I thought their marketing was terrible, because they missed the opportunity of special features and themes like Pirates of the Caribbean, Lilo and Stitch, and Cars to other providers like T Mobile and Cingular at that time. They could’ve sponsored their Disney branded phones to major carriers, instead of this walled garden cell phone service!

@JomasterTheSecond 11 ай бұрын

These would be perfect props for a teen high school drama film set very, very specifically in the years 2006 and/or 2007.

@santosic 11 ай бұрын

I feel like Disney Mobile, as a concept anyway, was way ahead of its time. I think, had they launched it in this modern era, it might have fared better, due to the high degree of customizability Android provides these days. They could slap their own skin on it and even have the phone come with their own apps pre installed such as Disney+ and DisneyNow. Make it a T-Mobile MVNO (which now has Sprint spectrum as well) and they could have even offered it to unlocked third party phones, too, similar to other GSM MVNOs. Slap in a few Disney exclusive perks such as discounted Disney+ or other perks like that and it could have probably fared really well. A bestselling service? Unlikely even then, but it'd probably have done better than it did way back when by comparison lol.

@TweeterMan287 11 ай бұрын

For about a millisecond, you had me with that Raid joke.

@krzbrew 11 ай бұрын

As a side note, both phones are based on Qualcomm's SoCs and have the same underlying system from Qualcomm. Manufacturers had a say in some security restrictions and UI. And the carrier had its say in distribution system, specific features and UI. Despite being a CDMA carrier, Sprint did not choose Qualcomm's BREW distribution system with native BREW apps, but decided to go with the rest of the world and used Java2ME. So this probably migrated to Disney Mobile. I wonder if you can side-load BREW or J2me apps, or it is completely locked in this regard. The Samsung phone featured here had a Sprint counterpart with Sprint UI - Samsung SPH-M300.

@thischannelisforcommenting5680 11 ай бұрын

Brew... Zeebo?

@jaimelopez2503 11 ай бұрын

@@thischannelisforcommenting5680 yes, the zeebo was also based on BREW

@blakegriplingph 11 ай бұрын

I am quite surprised that some CDMA carriers actually used Java ME instead of the usual BREW. I guess that might have been a little more cost-effective for them.

@ILoveWomen 11 ай бұрын

I was going to say, as an European, I can see the Samsung OS under all the Disney stuff. It's genuinely just the Samsung Java based OS reskinned, and with a different launcher (which was a possibility of carriers doing, like how Orange would have the same home screen on every phone on their network)

@lumpython5351 11 ай бұрын

@@blakegriplingph China Telecom is the biggest CDMA carrier in the world, and China Telecom choose J2ME.

@Maria_745 11 ай бұрын

"Priority" text messages weren't just a Disney mobile thing, I think they were called "urgent" messages by other providers and either hidden in the settings or not a well known feature. I couldn't find much about them online from a quick search but I believe the delivery process was actually slightly different for priority sms messages. I remember receiving "urgent" texts as late as 2010 taking advantage of that loophole

@YS_Production 9 ай бұрын

Wanted to say I never heard of them up here in central europe, but then I remembered - back when online "SMS gateways" were a thing, there was an option to choose from 3 types of messages, - standard, "message on screen" and one more. I think the "message on screen" would be the priority message. I remember I tried it and it worked. Later on the options to choose the message type disappeared. These gateways were actually operated by the respective network providers (and allowed you to send messages to those providers only) - let me know if such a thing existed in other part of the world.

@darrylsmith7528 11 ай бұрын

ESPN also had their own flip phone back in the day.

@ardcollectsphones 11 ай бұрын

my friend has that, its quite rare

@alextoolstudio 11 ай бұрын

Oooooh there better be a video of it

@ardcollectsphones 11 ай бұрын

@@alextoolstudio there is, his channel is called lightness collector

@ardcollectsphones 11 ай бұрын

also the phone is called sanyo mvp

@donotatme 11 ай бұрын

Having had a bunch of Samsung phone users in the family back then, those ringtones bring back memories. Especially ring 1 which my dad used because he never bothered to change it lol

@sharonbraselton4302 8 ай бұрын

this ohine samßung a 500 chef ohiñe mideràgé age

@allentoyokawa9068 7 ай бұрын

samjunk

@donotatme 7 ай бұрын

@@allentoyokawa9068 Took a while but now I got everyone off of Trashsung and onto stock android devices

@psychorabbitt 11 ай бұрын

God... I had pretty much that exact same flip phone up until about 2010. I can't remember the brand, but it was on Virgin Mobile (which was also a Spring MVNO back then).

@googaagoogaa12345678 11 ай бұрын

Was Spring anything like Sprint?

@tejasraman6913 11 ай бұрын

@@googaagoogaa12345678don’t be so literal, it was a mistype

@spongiedev 11 ай бұрын

@@tejasraman6913why so aggro?

@kraboid 11 ай бұрын

@@spongiedev are you even old enough to be on youtube lol?

@spongiedev 10 ай бұрын

@@kraboid mf did you even look at the post date for my videos bc if you did, you will see that I have grown up.

@thefacelessman6737 11 ай бұрын

“And speaking of restrictions… RAID SH-“

@kbhasi 11 ай бұрын

(10:02) I was under the impression that they would've charged for alerts and charged a little less than they did for text messages, but to be fair, it was 2004. (17:20) That looked to me like the same font that was used as part of the channel identity package Disney Channel had at the time!

@eggbreakerdotexe 11 ай бұрын

Those last 2 themes on the Samsung phone scream "2000s Disney Channel" to me. Which makes sense considering Disney Channel in the 2000s and Disney Mobile had a similar target audience.

@LandonEmma 11 ай бұрын

That menu reminds me so much of the DGamer art style, it's just so cartoony and wacky, I love it! The early 2000s was when Disney was amazing, now they suck.

@cydragon2.099 11 ай бұрын

even before then they were better

@LandonEmma 11 ай бұрын

@@cydragon2.099 FR

@samanthataylor8606 11 ай бұрын

I agree i miss the old dinsey

@ItsYaGirlAvacado 10 ай бұрын

Oh my god, I thought I was the only person left on the planet that remembered DGamer! So glad to see someone else experienced something I used to find so cool. 💕

@LandonEmma 10 ай бұрын

@@ItsYaGirlAvacado My first experience with DGamer was many years ago after is shut down, but I always wanted to see what it could do if it was still up.

@drucewayne 11 ай бұрын

The amount of Disney in this video almost requires a license.

@JustAPersonWhoComments 11 ай бұрын

Using Disney mobile phones in the US must have been like having a personal Disney nanny

@TheSUPERWIND2023 11 ай бұрын

Ironically, these types of phones are making a huge comeback. Dumb phones ftw

@BilisNegra 11 ай бұрын

HUGE??? Are you sure?

@TheSUPERWIND2023 11 ай бұрын

@@BilisNegrahe flip phone market grew 5% 2022-2023 so I suppose so.

@AlejandroRodolfoMendez 11 ай бұрын

Lots of people who doesn't want to be connected but still get calls, old people that can't use tactile screens, smb with employes and people who love the flip part. It's easy to program the lid for auto answer calls.

@swaqhetti 11 ай бұрын

Follow the leader lmao blasting korn through the Disney phone

@jonathanthegreat2008 11 ай бұрын

Yes! Michael! Make a collaboration with Defunctland?

@memoryhunter2084 11 ай бұрын

Hello MJD, thanks for the vid, loved it! I would like to make a suggestion to bring attention to old Japanese phones which ran the i-mode service and their need of preservation. Some of them do come with amazing preloaded games, but dumping them is still an on going process. It'd be great to raise awareness on this and I think it's a lovely video idea! Cheers!

@ShippoHsu 11 ай бұрын

Lmao really liked the defunctland call out

@ihockey0117 11 ай бұрын

I remember my sister had one of those we lived in Michigan I remember her always playing Disney songs or little shows or something like that idk it’s been so long. But I’m excited to watch the rest of this video so I can get more of the memories to rush in😂. Thank you for the video and nostalgia

@chriscarpenter6889 11 ай бұрын

i dont know if it was disney mobile, but my family had family locator as well on our flip phones. Only time we ever ended up using it was when it was left somewhere- i think it was a furniture store. Anyways, the thing was so accurate that we had actually found it, but the thing was, someone had stolen it and had deleted half of the contacts on the phone by the time we got it back from them.

@michaeljones3687 11 ай бұрын

Ring 1 on the Samsung gave me some nostalgia. Ring 1 is also known as the Samsung Tune! It was my favorite text notification sound. :D

@elfedorausado 11 ай бұрын

That Samsung clamshell phone is gorgeous…. Boy, do I miss using flip phones

@AlejandroRodolfoMendez 11 ай бұрын

There are new flip phones that use 3g, with quite good functions that you would desire pre iPhone, quite cheap and useful for example for elderly.

@elfedorausado 10 ай бұрын

@@AlejandroRodolfoMendez I know, but 3G is not viable where I live. And despite loving flip phones, I know it’s nostalgia speaking, 😂 though if there were one that could go 4G, and was not built like crap, I might go for one as a “calls only” device

@AlejandroRodolfoMendez 10 ай бұрын

@@elfedorausado for what I know those use any celular carrier chip since modern ones have adapted to basically you cut off the size for modern ones and without cutting works too but depend on the carrier, even if prepaid or not still works, sadly not for the web.

@mattwolf7698 11 ай бұрын

A phone for helicopter parents. Well okay if a kid was below highschool age I could understand some of these (seriously what is up with the picture one though?) I feel sorry for any teens who got stuck with this though.

@amora8152 11 ай бұрын

I had a Disney phone I got for Christmas one year... It wasn't a foldable, and it was a Nokia. idk if it was a local phone or smt, but I remember it was well advertised and all. would love to find it one day. loved the video.

@megamanfan3 11 ай бұрын

These types of cell phones still bring back vivid memories.

@Dslite45 11 ай бұрын

This one gave me flashbacks to the old Cingular phone I had as a kid in '04 or '05

@RedFlameFox 11 ай бұрын

I found a Disney Princess TV in a flea market here in Italy.

@j.w.techchannel 11 ай бұрын

Yes, more Disney cellphones. This will be another fun video 👍

@ethanma3533 11 ай бұрын

I wonder if Nickelodeon has something similar with those phones imagine with Spongebob The Fairly oddparents Icarly or Zoey 101

@acupuncturekid 11 ай бұрын

Are you able to do the ESPN cell phone system? Thank you!

@iblaci307 11 ай бұрын

15:05 those are samsung ringtones! i instantly recognised ring 1 lol

@iblaci307 11 ай бұрын

oh wait you realized at 16:19

@ThatHellenicDude 11 ай бұрын

You deserve an Oscar You are the best KZfaqr of tech thats why i watch a lot this channel keep the work

@ChromifyX 11 ай бұрын

It's good to see MJD uploads every video, It's very cozy.

@JosephNFS 11 ай бұрын

I know it's good when it says "America Edition".😂

@deathextreme9 11 ай бұрын

"...the message would open up and you would have to Roman Reigns it before you could use the phone" I am a table

@aguasemgas 11 ай бұрын

8:30 I was thought i was going crazy, you got me good lmao

@HighIQCayden 9 ай бұрын

"Speaking of restrictions, RAID SHAD- Just kidding" That made me die 🤣

@opalpersonal 10 ай бұрын

thank god this never caught on, Disney already has a big enough footprint in everything else...

@WATPLightness1 11 ай бұрын

Hi! I know this comment may not related to this video but, have you heard about ESPN mobile? It's a sprint mvno that is for "sports fans" but that carrier turned to be failure like disney mobile. They've only made 2 phones, the Sanyo MVP and Samsung Ace, I have the Sanyo MVP and despite to be failure, I honestly love it as for my collection along with my other phones. Anyways, you might should try making a video about ESPN Mobile

@maccamachine 11 ай бұрын

This type of stuff is always interesting

@edgarnello9165 10 ай бұрын

Its nice to hear that joe landed safely 😌😌😌

@georgeh6856 11 ай бұрын

I assume that kids could still take incoming calls from some creepy guy they met on the Internet. Hopefully, the GPS tracking would allow the police to find the kids before they were harmed or killed.

@elizabethsmith3374 9 ай бұрын

This should come back since parents are giving kids phones way way too soon now days and this would be a good option

@Disneyfan95 11 ай бұрын

There was also a LG model

@dayoldbread1696 11 ай бұрын

I still have mine surprisingly but it's the steamboat willie edition one

@jo100 8 ай бұрын

I Remember those Disney Phones from the Era of 2004 to 2008

@jeiku5041 11 ай бұрын

So a parent can find their kid easily, but if the kid wants to know where the parents are, that's out of the question?

@ArtOwl 7 ай бұрын

Yeah very strange

@Alfenium 9 ай бұрын

8:31 That was smooth.

@stpworld 11 ай бұрын

I actualy used them and Japan got one disney mobile in Japan in 4k it got one last revival in 2015 then it died off

@ExploringNew1 6 ай бұрын

8:32 you got me 😂😂😂

@Mopsamaxwell 6 ай бұрын

Wow! It's a Small World after all!

@kenthuang436 8 ай бұрын

Cell phones: the one area of media and communication that Disney couldn’t take over....

@THEOxxx197 Ай бұрын

“Where you could get into the more uh…restrictive stuff. Oh that doesn’t sounds great at all “ BAHAHAHA

@Fuuntag 8 ай бұрын

Gotta hand it to Disney this goes above the usual crappy jpeg, a few mp3s & can of paint used launch branded products.

@NickSneaky 11 ай бұрын

Hey Matt i have an ideea for you, would there be a way to connect the static electricity of your fingers to headphones? Like connecting headphones into your fingers to see what they sound like.

@TenshiTheAngel 11 ай бұрын

Is no one going to mention that Mickey on the box is doing the mr beast pose?

@sobu_hasy 9 ай бұрын

Disney Mobile was also in Italy, not only in the US and Japan. Can you please make a review for the LG U370, which was the Disney phone in Italy?

@foxdavani4091 11 ай бұрын

I can just imagine having an emergency and having only a few moments to dial 911….and first i have to answer a message from mom before being able to use the phone. Sounds like a stupid idea.

@LambdaMiscellaneous 11 ай бұрын

Nice!

@S989TVE 11 ай бұрын

i wish disney mobile as a mobile virtual network operator will come back by t-moblie in the usa or by ee in the uk

@unreal-Riley12 5 ай бұрын

Good video

@WinXP_SP1 11 ай бұрын

Can't complain about free texts.

@krzbrew 11 ай бұрын

I would assume the theme is just the menu pictures.

@PhirePhlame 11 ай бұрын

I wonder what would've happened if you stuck a regular old Sprint SIM into one of those?

@FantomLightning 5 ай бұрын

Nothing. Not only are these phones CDMA only (no SIM) but the Sprint network both CDMA and LTE had been shutdown by T-Mobile by the time this video was created.

@Templarfreak 10 ай бұрын

to a certain degree, i can understand these features. but, wow. uhm. all i can really say is: interesting how these are the same limitations their parents would probably have in the nursing home lmao

@ayeeyee9634 8 ай бұрын

As a current teen I would not be caught within the same area code as a Mickey Mouse phone The jokes would not end I guess it’s a 2000’s thing

@samanthataylor8606 11 ай бұрын

This is cool

@medusesquash795 11 ай бұрын

NOSTALGIC MOMENT! The Ring 1 is the my energy since i'm 12 (Samsung Tune)

@lorenzo.delbello 11 ай бұрын

Xiaomi just launched a new Disney 100 smartphone!

@alyssaroberts9561 10 ай бұрын

At 6:08 it says the right Samsung has Bluetooth! I wonder if AirPods would connect up?

@GroupCaptSlow 11 ай бұрын

Disney should bring back the service but not put out new phones. You said this was for children but I’m pretty sure I know several cringey Disney adults who would gladly get a phone from 2007 just to say they have Disney mobile

@augustleded 11 ай бұрын

the fake sponsorship had me dying

@nukamolly 9 ай бұрын

my parents got our family these when i was in middle school and i can confirm we almost exclusively used family alert to text each other

@ilmansalt 11 ай бұрын

Mickey be doing the mr beast pose 😂😂😂😂

@samsungfun2 9 ай бұрын

I love the original Disney cell phone I like the smart phones and flip phone

@LostVibes77 9 ай бұрын

I had one of these as my first phone they quit the service a few months later

@Harry11315 11 ай бұрын

You gotta do a video on the fujitsu f07c

@lancerstride4264 11 ай бұрын

Could old devices like these phones even work on a modern network? Or is it at least theoretically possible?

@FarmerBeavis 11 ай бұрын

I'd reckon you would be able to use basic phone and text message functions. None of the Disney helo-parent tracking, alert system etc tho

@gargadon 11 ай бұрын

No, because they used CDMA technology, and the last CDMA network shut down was from Verizon last year.

@alesm2389 9 ай бұрын

OMG!! Never thought that 16 years ago, Disney was a partner of phone brands and made those!

@nicholasdean3467 9 ай бұрын

Would it be able to connect to the network even if disney mobile still existed given that sprint assets were sold off years ago?

@smyry 10 ай бұрын

Speaking of phones I’d love to see you get ahold of an ESPN phone. Those things were promising but didn’t live to anything.

@yaelbunny2.0 11 ай бұрын

The raid shadow legends bit got me

@B01G3n1us 7 ай бұрын

I definitely thought penny lane wouldve had something to do with The Proud Family lol. But I find nice that the text kinda had that Disney channel font

@tagrauyoutube 11 ай бұрын

This video feels hyperspecifically all my interests combined 😅

@Its_Issac. 11 ай бұрын

get all of them

@gracekim25 11 ай бұрын

i'm invested

@nurielkader3555 9 ай бұрын

Good old days 😊

@jonnieb4 11 ай бұрын

SPEAKING OF RISTRICTIONS, RAID SHA....JUST KIDDING HAHA

@LHYChinese 9 ай бұрын

In 2016, Disney will also launched their Smartphone for the Philippines with their local provider, Globe.

@smashitoutnz 9 ай бұрын

These are the exact same as my first two phones We had many Pantech ones though mine was branded Hyundai The Samsung is really an M300

@ofir29200 11 ай бұрын

Is it possible to share an internet connection to the Samsung Disney phone using Bluetooth?

@LucilleFlenory 10 ай бұрын

I remember I wanted the purple Beyoncé phone I think it was on boostmobile. I also wanted the sidekick and the baby phat phones. I ended up getting a blackberry, didn’t know how to use it lol. A 10 year old with a blackberry at that time , Ha😂 didn’t even have anyone my age to text for .10c a message.

@ethanma3533 11 ай бұрын

I wish disney still does those phones today

@anthonyxavierwolfe5050 11 ай бұрын

I am the fourth like on this video and this is the second time I was kinda early and it turns out its the continuation of the disney phones xD. I love your videos!