My mom always tells me the tale of how you could drop a Nokia, and it wouldn't just be fine, it would work better. Phone ain't getting reception, drop it. Phone isn't turning on, drop it. Phone is being dumb, drop kick it and it'll never act up again.

Ahh yes. Back when the "mobile" phones were literally bricks. Good times.

My friend's Dad was an insurance guy and so had a car phone in the 1980s. I remember him driving me home and saying I could call my parents if I wanted to. Felt like I was in a space ship or something (thanks Philip for letting me have that experience, RIP you legend). Nowadays we take these things for granted!

I just can’t even imagine the stress of actually using that thing knowing you had 30 minutes of talk time and TEN HOURS to charge it “Himom sorrydadsinthehosptialkthanksgottagobyeloveyou”

The way he says "phones" and "head phones" literally just makes my day. I can't be mad or sad or whatever when a guy says Phonies.

Which came first: The Chicken or the Nugget?

I remember when phones were considered better when they were smaller, the smaller the more high tech the higher price. Now we are doing the opposite, the bigger the better, what a tech trip this video was hahah

My grandma handed me my first phone in like 2002, a motorola micro. It was the size of a brick and took a credit card sized sim, and it could only do calls. Thanks for believing in me grandma, 10 year old me was the coolest kid on the block cause of it.

That 30 minutes talk time for 10 HOURS of charge is such a good reminder of the progress in tech.

You forget to mention the third feature. Its an effective self defense weapon! You can do some serious damage with a nugget that big.

My great grandma had a phone similar to the first brick. It came in a foam briefcase and had a huge thick charger cable. I only got to see it a couple of times, never got to use it, since it was very precious to her and she was convinced that portable phones would be very useful. She was right.

I almost bought a "brick" phone back around 1990. They had come down in price to around the mid to high 3 figures by then. I couldn't really justify it, so I passed. My dad bought a portable version -- the one that "hung up," had a handle on it and could be carried around. I'd say it was about the size of a large day planner. I don't know how much it cost but the monthly fee was around $30-35 just for the service and then there were per minute charges on top of that -- no "free" minutes as I recall. The first cell phone I actually got was something from Radio Shack around 1993. It wasn't small enough to put in my pocket, but it was much closer to the size of the Nokia (it wasn't that brand, but I forgot what it was). It cost me a penny for the phone (!!) and again, something like $25 or 30 a month, but you got 100 or so minutes included. It wasn't until Sprint PCS, what I believe to be the precursor to 2G or the digital network, came out around 1997 that the service fees covered a fair amount of minutes and later texts. I think the funny thing is, I now keep my iPhones much longer than I ever kept any early gen cell or PCS phone in spite of the rapid changing tech of the newer smart phones. Pretty much 4 years minimum now; going to keep my XS for 5 or until they go USB-C on the port.

I've heard stories about people moving bricks in the 80's they were not kidding.

To be fair, having one of these in the mid 80's, INSTANTLY made you the most important person in a 10 block radius. I remember seeing a gentleman walk into the local mall with one...and i'm not joking when I say everyone stopped everything they were doing to stare. It was like seeing Michael Jackson in person. The world around him just stopped while he walked by. Insane.

I just love the enthusiasm in your voice, really authentic in presenting such a brick.

Okay WOW! The fact this came out in 1983 while the Walkman came out in 1979 really makes me respect how forward Sony was with their tech and I can totally see the portability of that cassette player even more now in comparison (and yes I know one is a phone and one isn’t but like still)

People really don't appreciate how incredibly far the miniaturization of technology has come over the last 40 years. It's absolutely ridiculous.

“so does a can of pepsi” don’t give me ideas while i’m drinking pepsi

The second phone you showed was like my grandpa's cell phone for his business. We even had walkie-talkies that looked like it. They were the best to play with and I still miss them tbh.

When he said “Ugh, stupid 80s”, I cracked up.😂 3:10 is when he says it

Taking a call from that melted all chocolate bars in a 3 meter radius

"Can I borrow your phone?" "Yeah, sure!" "Hang on, this is a brick, not a phone" "Exactly!"

I had completely forgotten how impossible it used to be to open battery covers

I've been restarting this video for "PA-HO-NEEZ" and I may never be able to stop

that thing ain’t a nugget, that thing is the whole chicken!

You shouting out cube runner makes me feel so valid.... As the world record holder for 3 of the 4 Cube Runner modes.

As a kid in the 80s and 90s, I remember every one of these. Good memories.

I've got a gold Motorola Bagphone as well as one of Technophone's competitors. Both are only the car kit, but both surprisingly work when plugged in! The latter even has a little light in the post of its car plug to let you know it's getting power!

Looks like you’re holding technologically advanced sandwiches

Every call with this nugget is equal to a chest x-ray probably

I used to repair these professionally in the 90´s here in Sweden, well at least the Micro tacs and the Dynatac which was very similar in style to the first Motorola that you showed but a bit slimmer, the model i probably repaired most during the 5 years i worked repairing mobile phones was the very popular Nokia 2110. What you are talking about though is the first handheld mobile phones, mobile phones actually dates back to the first half of the 1900´s and Sweden apparently had the first fully automated mobile phone system in 1956 named MTA which was for vehicles since they werent portable. I worked on NMT (analog) and GSM phones (digital and on its way out now at least here in Sweden).

6:24 i really love when sellers do these kinds of stuff, is just neat and makes you happy about buying that particular listing

“So boss we should use all the space we have left in our new phone, maybe so the battery can last longer?” “No Fred you’re fired. the battery will last 30 minutes, and if you ever bring this up again we’ll sue you”

My pre-K teacher in 2007 had a microTAC that was a “toy” phone, she also had other various old big Motorola phones for us to play with

At 8:05 when dank says "it's got the dad case", it just sounds nice

0:03 I need a 1 hour replay of that its just a master piece

To think that the cell phones back then we’re literally bricks and can only take calls, while today’s phones are literal mobile smart computers being able to do almost everything.

All jokes aside, it's amazing you've got these, they really are pieces of portable technology and communications history. They'll fit right alongside the Craigs

One of my grandfather's old employers gave him 3 of those bricks when he was working for them. He was the accountant for some huge company that my brain has forgotten cause he told me this in like 2011. Anyways he was so important to the company that they needed some way to contact him no matter what. He doesn't have the bricks anymore but he has pictures of them in the backround on their chargers.

Wow !! I was in the cell phone business from 1987 until 2000. I have installed and sold as well as serviced all the phones in your video. Thanks for taking me down memory lane.

That brick could replace the 1grit™

My uncle gave me his old cell phone he had in his truck, from the late 80s. It was the size of a small suitcase and weighed something like 4 kilos. 6210 was my first phone too, I had to pay for it myself and all, no wealthy dad here!

I remember when I was a kid, long time ago, and I saw the first mobile phones start to come out. They were the most baller things you could have, I thought anyone who had one was some kind of Wall Street CEO, or at least someone very important

My old man actually had one of these flip-nuggets back in like, 1991. His company let him borrow it since they always had him traveling around.

Back when "bricked phone" meant your phone was a literal brick

I remember my dad’s lawyer coming to our house with a portable phone. A box about the size of an iPad, a handle on the top and a phone receiver. I was too little, not sure what brand it was.

This was the first dankpods video I watched, and now I’m a patreon, and celebrate every upload.

That bit at 6:30 threw me off because I am actually from Westonka and I know the Jeremy Berg referenced... Super weird

Everyone: making videos about the nothing ear ones Dank pods: pa ho nee

"May explode if disposed of in a fire" "Well so do Pepsi cans but they don't have that warning"

3:40 My father bought one of those used in the early 90's and used it until the network no longer supported it. I remember trying to take the battery off for no reason, and it was pretty much child proof. He also got a StarTac after that one, but the hinges kept breaking within the warranty period.

3:44 I used to work at US WEST('s successor company three times removed) and around my office I found some old sales literature for these!!

That ain’t no nugget. That’s a whole-ass chicken.

CJ been holding this thing in his pocket, just saying.

1:26 A meme that gamers can relate to

Centel was the telecom company for the Chicagoland area in mid 1980's to the early 1990's. My parents had cable TV through them.

I cant wait for you to make a video on the new "nothing ear(1)" because ngl all the reviews look kinda fake because I have never seen a device getting such constant positive reviews. So i would love to see a review from you

it's pretty amazing when you think about it: the phone was invented in the late 19th centery (1876 right?) so it took 100 years to make them moblie, but only 40 to make them one of the most advanced and powerful machines that all of us use everyday

4:17-ALL tech does that.

In these trying times I'm rewatching all dank videos to get even a moment of some form of peace of mind, while I'm surrounded with fighter jets sounds all day. Thank you.

"Dad case" is the best name for these cases.

Genuine leather comes from the worst.part of the hide that's why it tends to be really cheap

*I used to sell some of these at Radio Shack around1988-1990... about three a year.*

My Dad still has his first ever phone in (sort of) working order. It was a motorola car phone made portable by putting the handset, base unit and an external battery into a big satchel with a shoulder strap. He kept it because every now and then he would need to plug it back in and find the phone number of a supplier he hadn't used in years. Even before the battery cooked itself it basically only functioned properly when plugged into a lighter socket but at the time it was a game changer because he could take customer orders while out doing deliveries instead of hoping there was space on his answering machine with it's 2 minute loop of 8 track tape for a capacity of 8 whole messages. 1980s technology was wild. Meanwhile my first phone was a 90s motorola with the fantastic feature that if you ran out of batteries you could take the battery out and put in 4 AAs and get like 30 seconds of talk time for a "Mum my phone's dying come pick me up from...[battery dead]"

You've made me realise there are kids who DIDN'T start with their dad's hand-me-down phone and that's terrifying

The warning should have been “Warning: battery may explode if exposed to fire or a can of Pepsi.”

My father had the second motorola (or a version that looked like that, I might still have it somewhere) but the battery was busted, so he had it in the car with the car charger plugged and we had both models of startac, the one with the red screen and the one with the LCD screen. He had the red one and I had the LCD one. I didnt knew how much I missed those ringtones.

My family had a MicroTAK that flip did nothing. Not even the mic was there. That damn thing existed to be in roaming mode even here in SoCal.

Everytime Dank Pods uploads world happiness meter goes up

"This is how they keep the weaklings off Wall Street" LMAOOO xD

The older phones supported 14.4 kbit/s high speed data transfer, full duplex mode. The trick is 1-2 hours net, browsing, and the 9.6 kbit/s slow data transfer will switch permanently to 14.4 kbit/s. That was fast with Win 98, because everything used the internet cache, instead of loading from the network.

I found one of those in my family's country home as a child searching all over the place. I used to press the buttons for fun. It was satisfying.

Screaming Aussie man is now a phone reviewer, nice

*Just imagine how old and outdated our current phones will be after a few decades*

Whenever Im going to search something up on YT your content always catches my eye

Fun fact! Jeremy Mark Berg was founding director of the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Personalized Medicine. He holds positions as Associate Senior Vice Chancellor for Science Strategy and Planning and Professor of Computational and Systems Biology at the University of Pittsburgh.

I fucking love these retro ringtones for some reason. They're simple, and make you feel like you're doing *REAL MEN'S BUSINESS*

4:45 AHHHHH THIS IS HOW THEY KEEP THE WEAKLINGS OF WALL STREET I MEAN YOU HAVE TO BE PHYSICALLY STRONG TO DO BUSINESS IN THE 80s. Man why are you so accurate.

The original brick phone also had a security code option. I have all my old phones somewhere around here. Have not had cell phone service since 2012 though!

I had a phone that was kind of similar to that DynaTAC, I think they badged it as a Talkabout. Very similar chassis, but the battery stood proud of the front of the case, and it had a decorative cover over it. It was my first cell phone. And man times have changed. I kinda miss the phones I had after that. Before the smart phone era.

I work in a battery shop, I was watching this on lunch and when he's talking about the battery life on the first one my boss laughed as well, not even watching.

The first call on a mobile phone was an absolute Chad move 📞

I remember my dads old mack had a bag phone mounted to the passenger seat up until until the early 2000s when all the contractors all started using Nextel. In 2011 it took considerable convincing that he didn't need it mounted in his new semi because all the cell towers switched to digital signals and that the age of bags was forever over

The reason they have such strong warnings about not disposing of the battery in fire is that once upon a time, in an era before even alkaline batteries were common, the zinc-carbon batteries of the day were safe to dispose of by burning them with the rest of your trash.

Yes kids this were the first "mobile"phones, a feature he didnt mention is you could microwave your food on the go with it and recreate a chernobyl nuclear meltdown if the battery exploded, also you can use it as a large hadron collider that could potentially cause a rift in time and space.

It's pretty insane how fast tech has progressed in the last 20 years. From 2000 onward technology exploded in such a fast pace.

Love how phones started off massive, then could fit in the palm of your hand, then touchscreens being like 3.5”, to 6” being the norm now.

Thanks man this took me way back my parents opted for the leather case and they were terrible after a year or so of having them in their pockets or forgetting them in their cars. They got a long distance bill of $600 and took them back.

I honestly loved joining the adventure of “is this new?!” and joining the rollercoaster. Please keep doing what you’re doing.

It's funny how i remember my uncle having this. He was like a big shot. It was very rare for people to actually own these things in those times.

I think this was the first episode i ever watched, and it made me become a dankpods fan ever since that day (i forgot what day tho)

9:00 Rare footage of Dank saying "battery" and not "bat-tree"

You and ozzymanreviews should make a Collab. Would be the funniest thing ever

doesn't matter what im doing, if dankpods uploads, you betcha im dropping everything to go watch that video asap

My mate had a startac in 98. He was one of those lads who had everything. Massive TV , DVD player, Dolby Pro logic, Moto Startac, huge house.... I was infinitely jealous 😂

4:40. You pressed it from the wrong side. When you press it verticaly into the phone and then push the accu downwards then it will slide out easily.

I remember the soda pop company my dad worked for having those early flip phones, the bulky one, so they could reach him while he was on the road. And yes.....it had the leather case, so calling it the dad case had more meaning for me lol.

1983 to now isn’t even that long and look how our technology has progressed, from a literal brick to the phones we have today.

The credit card sized sim cards were just as funny back then aswell.

there should be a compilation of dank pods screaming in pain and frustration 😂