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Moto X 2nd gen ♥️

Samsung galaxy beam

HTC m8s

HTC desire 310

Yeah. My (ex) girlfriend had that phone whilst I was still rocking a Sony Cybershot phone. I was completely jealous with all the stuff it could do. Then later the next year, I got the HTC Hero or G2 as it was known here in the UK. Oh, how the tables turned. I miss that glowing trackball.

Man, these phones are beautiful. Kinda wish they would still be around

AuthenTech - Ben Schmanke >legit i dont think this means what u think it means...

It was the first knockoff iPhone, of course it was fun.

I didn't like my Android phones before the T-Mobile Vibrant. I remember that G1 and HTC Magic were laggy.

aw too much - Dieter

@@TheVerge 😍

Agreed! More Dieter videos!

And his hairdo keeps constantly changing!

Agreed. I used to only like videos featuring Joshua Topolsky, but Dieter grew on me with his phone reviews back in the day, and now he's my favorite guy at the Verge.

Thing is 10 years ago we did have that. Well civilians didn't, but militaries and places like NASA and so on did. New tech always goes to them 1st. Sometimes the tech is made by a company but put on the shelf. Some executive or CEO, some one is charge sometimes doesn't think its gonna be a hit, so the scrap it. Motorola did this with a smartphone in the 80s. Also heard it was the 70's late 70's. Motorola literally just let it all go and put it on the shelf. Prices usually play a factor. While we could have had it back then, the prices would have been insane. For them and us. Sometimes companies rush it without fixing the bugs. This does poor on the market because of it and they scrap it. That's another reason Motorola shelved it back in the 80's.

My first smartphone had 128mb of ram and a 433 MHz single core processor that could sometimes reach 512 on overclock. Time really flies

13 years back I had a phone with full touch screen. It had stylus. I could download apps and games and play on it. Basically i could do almost everything that i do in current smartphone. Phone is Sony Ericsson P910i

Actually these techs are available 50 years ago..they just hold it back and release slowly..

Yes, I agree, progress has been rapid. However, the one thing that would have surprised me the most, is if someone had told me that people would start buying $1000+ phones.... how much?

I mentioned it briefly, but yes you are correct that Symbian was dominant - but I am not sure it had the potential to play hardball in the way microsoft and google did. - Dieter

Blackberry was bigger than Windows Mobile. Here's a list of Symbian phones from LG : www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?sMakers=20&sOSes=5 Samsung : www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?sMakers=9&sOSes=5 Sony : www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?sMakers=19&sOSes=5 Motorola : www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?sMakers=4&sOSes=5

Who knows what would have happened because Nokia had to compete with a nascent Android (that took off only after 2.2 Froyo, with its in-browser full Adobe Flash support, at that time Nokia was pretty much making its way in MS WinPho 7 camp) I believe Nokia had the potential to play hardball had Elop not happened.

Only out In Europe and stuff, out here in the USA it was all black berry and windows untill the iPhone and Android came out . I remember I wanted one of them expensive Nokia's but they were hard to get here .

The mda2 and the tmobile wing had the the touch screen and keyboard way before the tmobile g1

so what? software is evolving every day...

> So what? A: So I am adding more history to "Android" and it's origins...

"The real reason Google made Android" when you see this video you may think this is a history class by The Verge! but it is not.. they are telling indirectly the Authentic all glass smartphone is invented by apple and android copied it.. Even if this is true.. that is not a valid reason to buy an iPhone today. Now android smartphone available from $50 to more than a $1000. And Android Smartphone helping more people in this world!.. Luxury brands always need something like this to charge more.. Whatever they targeted at first and how bad was android experience was at that time doesn't matter TODAY! Now Top android phones are better than Apple in many areas.. yes you can argue with me all day with this statement. BUT THEY TARGETED WINDOWS FIRST IS NOT THE REASON FOR ME PAYING 2100 USD FOR IPHONE XS MAX 512GB IN INDIA!!. I got s9+ 256GB for $1000 and i can get Note 9 512GB for $1200.. Actually iPhone XR coste more than $1000 here.. so F&&& you Apple..

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‘Kind’ is singular, so ’this kind’ is correct; both grammatically and semantically.

I wanna see more

@@nadeemshaikh7863 So nothing. It's possible to have multiple videos that are all of one kind. One kind of videos. It's correct. "These kinds of videos" is also grammatically correct, but wouldn't make sense in the above comment.

...yes - Dieter

I wanted that phone and wanted a follow up but nothing ever came of it as we all know SOLD!

Loved that phone. Sad it went away so quickly.

@@SimSquadGaming I still have that phone, I have it in a box in the closet, it still works and everything, I like the OS and the gestures to get to the recent apps, Android P gestures remember me about that phone. I would of been nice to have a follow up of the phone, but sadly that didn't happen.

what a nice looking interface for that device...

THIS IS AFTER IT HAPPENED

I thought android was made by Samsung?

@K.D.P. Ross It's half correct. Samsung is one of the biggest contributors to the AOSP.

A K My grandpa was so sad when they discontinued Symbian OS when Nokia switched to android. I never got to try it but he made it sound amazing. Luckily he was able to transfer over to Android.

Just wondering, are you a US citizen? We only really used Palm and Microsoft smartphones before the iPhone here (well, at least here in NYC)

Microsoft mobile are just available in our part of world in monthly tech magazines and palm were used by only certain segment, symbian os rules the market here in Asia until 2012 or something with samsung dominates together with android and while apple try 2 get visible.

It was good for the time until they released OS9.x where you had to digitally sign every app you install.

Yup series 60 was THE os... It was amazing... It had great games too... I had a nokia ngage, gaming was fun on it

lollll fair - Dieter

And Siemens

and benq

While we’re at it add ericson, kyocera, panasonic, o2, doopod, sharp

The original iPhone was a Motorola with iTunes called the iTunes phone.

One of the best times for tech enthusiast. I still miss the days when WebOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Android, Symbian and iOS were all fighting for market share

Easy if Google targeted Windows, there were many WM PDAs using resistive touchscreen technology. So iPhone just made them more advanced, and WM did also

@Caleb Otsubo He literally says that in the video, man. Dieter was probably not even the person who made the title. To reiterate, he knows his stuff.

He literally said that

I agree

I kinda miss physical keyboards, which I had on the G1 and the Android teams previous phones, the T-Mobile Sidekick. That physical click of the keys that you could feel under your fingers was really nice.

I think it's pretty bad that every mobile device now is just a big slab with a touch screen. There is no individuality and people who likes physical keys won't find anything to suit them.

I disagree, design is really stale and boring these days, and most importantly functionality decreased. Back then you could launch your camera with the shutter button, control your music with special keys and so on, without even turning on the screen. Now you need the screen for everything, it can be really cumbersome.

e73

I had an e63 which is basically a cheaper e71 and it was such a comfy phone lol

Oh. My first Android phone was a Galaxy Ace as well. Haha. I used to change the ROM like once a week. 😄

Hopefully your first and last experience...

Omg same! I remember using it as well. Galaxy Ace something! But later in 2011 I started using Note. That changed a lot.

Mine was the galaxy music😊

I my first phone was Samsung j3 6 I like it. wish it had the good specs to run pubg and gangster 4 my 2nd phone is LG k30 wish the screen did not crack and it had amoled and 1080p

He literally says that

Didn't made wow

Google didn't make android, it acquired it. You might want to get the history right.

Casual mention of Andy Rubin. Casual mention of Sidekick. Totally ignored the massive connection.

you miss to mention about Symbian OS.

Yeah Sony

Yeah, like he says in the video

@SublimeHawk6 the title doesn't always represent the actual video well. They obviously made the title like that to get more clicks.

wtf? wrong

He literally said that

BOUGHT IT

Robier Apple, copying Google since day 2. See? Nobody cares. Consumers care about the superior product, relative to their needs. There's a saying in Germany that addresses this. Mercedes-Benzes are designed in Munich, and BMWs in Stuttgart. Both shamelessly steal ideas from each other nobody cares.

You don’t have to first to invent or be the best to have a successful product. You just need it to make it easy enough for regular people to use and market it right. Apple is very good when it comes to design, ease of use and marketing. That’s why Apple sells around 200 Million iPhones a year.

@@iMadrid11 well i do agree with wht u said abt marketing. Apple could sell a damn cucumber for 2000$ with blind fans buying. Just look at their latest offerings 😂 Now they're even selling the usb-3.5 mm converter seperately 😬

Chris Bautista ease of use? You dont have to be so smart to use an android.. Apple just so happen to become a status symbol, and probably even ease of choice(they could really just pick latest generation without thinking about other models) And the fact that apple literally lock you in their ecosystem, you tend to just buy their products then And other thing is, teenagers sometimes do boast about having an iphone(disgusting btw cuz they like use 5 or 6 but boast it like they have the X)

LoopTLoop LTL - iOS is pretty much fool proof for non-technical users. Try explaining Android App Permissions settings to your Grandmother.

Chris Bautista Try using an iPhone if you've grown up with Android. It's a nightmare

Yes

Google was inspired by the iOS and windows based os. If something already exists doesn't mean you don't have to try your own version.

No, because that's too broad of a category

No but Samsucks did and they got a hefty 8 years battle and now paying apple.

I did have iphone 4 at the times cause iphones were way popular back i had one in 2014 and expired in 2017 then got iphone 6 used it for an year than got S8+.

No??

Android was before Ios. and LG and Samsung had Smartphone patents before Iphone came out

Me too