I like how Steve Jobs was so deadpan on the keynote like "heres something we made i guess"

You can almost see the point where Steve Jobs thought to himself ‘ this shit is the best they could do?’ You know he went straight off stage and told everyone to make the iPhone.

I had this phone and actually really liked it. The 100 song limitation wasn't due to ram or any other hardware limitation. It was a software limitation imposed by Apple so that the phone wouldn't steal as much market share from the ipod.

Man isn't it crazy that some phones had specific charging cables back in the day instead of one standard connector

I wonder if modern phones will ever be looked the same way we look at flip phones

You can tell that Steve Jobs was utterly embarrassed by this phone

10:43 “this thing is the oldest it’s ever been” that..that’s kinda how time works

I had this phone and the speakers were BLOWING THE SHIT OUT OF IT! We had real small subwoofers there, so it was mindblowing. I think even iPhone doesn't have that much bass as this little dude. It was the best phone speaker-wise.

Getting iTunes to work properly with this phone was a proper pain in the ass, and when it did it wouldn't do it consistently. I believe I used a 15 year old copy of itunes on Windows 10 for it.

I forgot how bad screens use to be. I’m happy we are living in the days that we have to genuinely fight over what a humans eye is capable of seeing because we are reaching that point.

Here in Brazil the Mini USB type B cable is still to this day called "V3" because of this phone.

I remember selling these back in the day. It was trash. Not because it was 2005 but because, at the time, Sony Ericsson were churning out incredible MP3 playing handsets. Even by today's standards, they were great. The W800i was in a completely different league. I got one for an ex girlfriend who messaged me in 2018 to say she had only just retired it :) That little W800i outlived our relationship by over a decade :) On a related note, I recall being told by a Moto sales guy that the 100 songs limitation was actually a deliberate software bork from Apple who didn't want the Moto phone eating too much into shuffle/Nano sales.

The quote from the Motorola exec asking who listens to 1000 songs when criticising the Nano shows how much they underestimated the market.

Still have my "Japan's first answer to the iPhone", the Sharp IS03 (such a catchy name). Bit dinged up, but still working - the battery holds a charge like it's brand new. The screen even beat out the Retina Display in 2010, at 960 x 640 it looked _sharp._

I like how it can hold exactly the entirety of Undertale OST. *It is perfect.*

I love how dank always says “Can you believe no one bought this!?” even though someone clearly bought it otherwise he wouldn’t have had it 🤣

Motorola not only invented mobile phones, but also produced 68000 processors for old Macs and multiple game consoles like the Sega Mega Drive!

I loved this phone when it was new. There were all kinds of modding communities for it where you could crank up the speakers on the phone. It had great speakers for the time.

You can see the keyboard dirt on the screen😂 0:55

A mate of mine had the ROKR. The best thing about it was the tight vibration tuning. it just felt futuristic. Even today, you can feel the difference between a high end phone and a cheapy by the way they tune the vibration motor.

Another straight up banger as always. I've always been into vintage and obscure devices and accessories, and your channel helped me further that interest even more!

Just want to say that I appreciate the commitment to the moto nugg. Over 5 months is a hell of a long time to stick with a video idea, and while it didn't end up working like you wanted, it ended up being a great video. Definitely worth it 👍

That "Worms Knockoff" was on the Razr too, I remember my sister and I playing it on long road trips sometimes. Also, you'll find certain versions of iTunes stop supporting devices, even though they say they don't, I still need to run old versions of iTunes to be able to use ipod touches properly

Love that you've done this. I've always referred to my rokr e1 as the first iPhone. I loved my rokr e8 with its almost ipod scroll wheel too

Wonder if Lord Pod of Dank will ever cover the Apple Newton at some point. Impressive for its time (still had plenty of issues though) and it’d be interesting to see what he’d have to say about it.

Motorola’s decline has been something to watch. I worked next door to a massive Motorola office before covid. I went back for the first time in 2 years and the Motorola office has been completely flattened, wiped off the face of the earth. I know they still work on commercial and business stuff but for the average consumer they simply don’t exist anymore.

I think you might need an older version of iTunes, specifically from this CD, and see if that works cause I've heard that sync is no longer compatible with this phone on later versions.

My older sister had this phone and it was the coolest thing I’d ever seen at the time

Hey Dank! It’s me from the Vince Jones concert last night. It was an honour meeting you! Keep uploading bangers and good luck with all your plans for this channel ✌️

Love your vids man Honestly you’re a big inspiration to me. I’ve been watching you since day one. Thank you for supporting me without even knowing you do it.

I remember when this was brand new. I already then thought it was a failed attempt; I always had the theory that Jobs did that on purpose to weaken Motorola (one of the biggest players in mobile phones back then) in anticipation of the iPhone. Apple had been working on that at this point already, so I thought it kind of fit the narrative, as conspiracy-ish as it may sound.

I had one of these in high school, it was really good as a device as a phone an as a projectile for throwing at your friends, quite solid construction.

I had an e398 at one point. The thing i remember most was the loudspeaker was pretty great. Compared to everything else it was actually loud and sounded like it had a sub in it.

i've been watching dankpods since 2019. i love your content bro. keep it up.

Oh wow, I played a slightly older version of that worms knockoff game at 8:54 all the time when I was younger. Was loads of fun passing it back and forth with my bro in the car.

Listening on my Samson SR850's cause of your video's Thanks for all the great content and knowledge!

Damn did I need this! Crappy day and the green rectangle pushes the anxiety away. Love ya, Danky!

Never knew these existed and also thx for getting me back into iPods I swear because of you I now have 6 iPods, I got the touch guys, the nanos that im scared that they’ll eventually just explode, a mini, really mate thanks

I had the motorola E398 and that was a brilliant phone. The side speakers lot up with rgb, it sounded great and came with some pretty decent software to convert songs to mp3

Wow, This is my favorite phone of pre-iPhone era! Love it. Incredible sound. Real Bass :)

I absolutely loved this phone. I begged my parents for this phone back in the day. I specifically remember how long it took to load the music on the phone.

it's quite funny how the nano was presented in the same keynote, like, it was doomed from the start LOL

Started watching your videos when I found your review on the airpod max (still on the fence). Since then I’ve started finding and buying old iPods with the help from my partner who works in a skip yard and brings them home as well. Love watching your videos and frank!

The Nano was my favorite iPod second to the 4-button iPod only (which I modded heavily!). Had rockbox firmware and played Doom on that thing on the way to school. Love both. And only both. Imagine if this phone was the new apple/Motorola flagship Collab? Imagine if it was any good? Imagine where the tech scene would be at right now?

"Frank please listen to me.." had me laughing love the endings of your videos

It’s always fun to pause and look at the goofy names

The ROKR was a really good phone. I like how they connected the vibration motor to the audio to vibrate when playing music. Motorola also had a different model that does have this feature, I think it was the V220 I think

I absolutely love just browsing really old forum posts 😆 it’s like a digital recording of the town square from years ago

This guy is the best ngl

the dopamine rush i get every time i see a new dankpods video is unparalleled

Had one of these and I loved it.

The fact that the preloaded game on there was a Worms knock off is actually mind boggling to me. That’s such a complicated game for just a phone from the early 2000s. I would’ve expected breakout or something

The only thing Jobs hated more than this was science based medicine

10:35 every long-term fan is just screaming at their phones at this point in unison. *ONE GRIT! 👏🏻 ONE GRIT! 👏🏻*

Cell phones peaked at the Razr and no one can convince me otherwise. I don't care how sleek and shiny the next slim box that comes out is, the Razr's design is the pinnacle

Funnily enough, the Razr you showed at the beginning is actually the Razr v3i, which also had iTunes (the i in v3i is for iTunes, if you couldn’t guess) and came out a couple of months after the Rokr.

Apple and Motorola (and IBM) worked together back with the first Power Macintoshes, and even managed to make a Mac powerful enough to be classified as a supercomputer by the US Government (which resulted in the Power Mac G4 being banned from sale to certain countries), yet 6 years later they release a phone from last year with only 100 songs and crappy controls. Motorola, what the hell happened?

Pretty cool seeing some of Motorola's failures, considering I own and use a Motorola as my current phone. Not one the new Razrs but I seriously want one, they are so cool.

I had the black ROKR E8 with the haptic buttons. I actually really liked that version of the phone.

The Motorola Rocker sounds more like a Lazy Boy that has a phone line built into it IMO

When it comes to his junk automotive vlogs to tech reviews to humour... Those are the main reasons why I watch this channel... He's a real funny yet motivating guy who appreciates his fans. 🙏

YESSSS! MAKE MORE VIDEOS ON OLD PHONES I LOVE THEM! im a phone collector too

Turns out that there is a special conector for syncing the Motorola Rockr.

I had this phone, still have it! I had the black one though (Motorola E398) and they did a collab with Black Eyed Peas with that model. that's why there were already presaved BEP ringtones on this one. Man, I loved this phone. I felt so cool with this tiny phone. The coolest part was the speakers on the side - they had colorful lights built in. So whenever you played music, or someone texted/called you, it would start to flash those colorful lights around like you were in a disco or something. One of my favorite phones I had back then, so mate dankpods - thank you very much that you made this video. Absolute favorite! 🙌🏻 Greetings from Austria (Australia's ugly cousin), Ellie

All these uploads recently are awesome, really cool to get so much content to watch and enjoy

I love how simple his vids are but I love them so much

You could hear Steve biting his lip on the keynote.

I remember the SLVR had iTunes support as well. If I'm not mistaken, that was a L7. I had the L6 when I was growing up and my favorite game was Block Breaker Deluxe, good times.

I know it must be a saying but: "this thing is the oldest it's ever been" That's... Literally everything in existence.

I had a rockr and loved it,it had Disco lights and crazy Base stereo sound.

That Razr v8/v9 you keep waving around is still my favorite phone I've ever had.

Loved the video I hope you can make more of these! I love videos on the old nuggets keep it mate!

My dad had one of those, still one of the best phones (The razor one I meant)

In a video from fellow tech KZfaqr Snazzy Labs about the Rokr, he said that support for the phone on iTunes was dropped early on, while even the first iPod is still supported in iTunes on Mac Computers. (btw you two should definitely collaborate at some point)

7:32 Damn! Who saw that coming??

I had one of these as a kid! It had amazing *stereo* loudspeakers and a really nice cable. The 100 track limit on iTunes was a bummer. I remember that with 100 tracks, it took a lot of time to launch iTunes, and I remember being annoyed that it was so easy to accidentally hit the music button and have to wait for it to load. I really wish you managed to play something over the loudspeakers! Mine came with a pretty fun soccer game and a The Sims-like life simulation, the latter was the first game I played that had this mechanic where it tracks the system time to advance the in-game time, which was a brand new concept at the time for this form factor. Really cool stuff! I actually stopped using it because I bought the iPod Nano, so I guess Motorola's CEO was right haha

Should take a look at the Samsung Juke. I loved that weird swivel open design. felt very sci-fi.

11:49 that's why Steve Jobs basically shit on it at the keynote. The iPhone was well into it's development and he knew he was about to blow all phones out of the water.

I had the Motorola SLVR (pronounced "sliver") back in 06-07. It was the candy bar phone version of the RAZR. And I specifically bought it because it had iTunes on it. I could tell, way back in 2005, that at some point in time the folks from Cupertino were going to merge phones and iPods. I saw my fellow college students walk around campus with an iPod in one hand and a cell phone in the other. I still have that phone in a box in the basement... somewhere. If I find it I'll ship it to you Mr. Dank Pod.

literally had this phone as a 5 year old back in 2005, i remember it lagged all the time and after a year of usage the sim always would have problems loading up my network lmao, truly the worst phone i had lol

love these new phones, can't wait to see the second one

Had one of these, loved it. If they made this with Spotify, I would buy one

Love that you’ve come back to this after five months 😂🔥

Dingus

You should check out Sony Ericsson K800 or K850 to see what the higer end of "dumb-phones" were like. The vibrant selection of J2ME games that I downloaded over the 2.5G connection on these through the multiple app stores I had installed predated the apple app store by a long, long while.

For itunes sync you need old version of iTunes SW, and maybe Windows PC. Also, they have English in settings menu) I have E398 with firmware from ROKR E1 and with old iTunes on Windows - it works

I loved my W810i I miss that phone so much. it had themes and music and probably the best 2mp camera I ever owned at the time.

I owned one of these back in the day. What a nostalgia trip.

Mr dank. Thank you for you videos, they make me laugh all the time

I had a razer identical to that one, even in 2008 it was pretty cool

the side kick is still one of the coolest phones i have ever seen . slider for keyboard and flip for two screens . or just that style when we still had physical keyboards. i would be down to hunt one if it was mildly capable anymore

A mate had the beefier Razr (the V3x I believe it was) that had a selfie camera on the hinge and its regular camera was 2MP vs. the regular V3's VGA one. At the time I wanted one of those but could never find it.

Always love when you upload wade 🔥

When I first saw that phone in the thumbnail I said “that phone looks pretty cool.” Turns out it was a pretty cool phone, and nothing more

This was the best music Phone I ever owned. This has true stereo speakers in it and if you layed it down on a Table this made sound even in the bass area. And you held it right in Front of your face it had a stereo wideness you couldnt get from even some hifi systems. I liked it a lot!

I had one of these when i was a teenager, i remember being really disappointed cos i ordered the X1, which was the flip version of it, but they sent me the technically better X2 (this phone) and i remember being really disappointed cos i wanted a flippy phone damnit, when you're a teenager. boy was i wrong, as soon as i got used to having decent entertainment in my pocket the desire for a flip phone dropped off, believe i finally replaced it with a HTC hero (the one with the dumb chin on it) that i got off a friend for 20 pounds

I believe the reason why it came out so terribly is because even though Motorola was a big company at the time and made amazing phones, they were going into unknown territory without having little to any experience prior to this. The idea to have music on a phone is genius, but not if it is a detriment to the phone software and hardware itself.

2:56 So this is where Apple got their modern day business model from.

I owned a v547 Motorolla. The wallpaper on the phone is nostalgic

I was so jealous of my best friend's razr back in elementary school, that keyboard is absolutely ✨ aesthetic ✨, I liked it so much as a kid. Sadly, my parents got me a cheap Nec instead.