azeria here lol

Or flippable

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

Any phone is foldable if you're angry enough.

@@jays.6843 except the 3310, that thing will break whatever is trying to bend it

We wouldn't be able to handle it

Or Never Gonna Give You Up

That would have been amazing

@today was a good day spammer

Oh right, we didn't got Scarlet Fire today! Still that one was awesome xD

That spy ain’t on our side

The engineer is a spy!

The iPod Shuffle used this same setup, except with USB

@@servissop151 True, but in a much less cooler way

@@servissop151I frigging _wish_ Apple went back to that instead of Lightning when they went loony and dropped a port.

Oh my god yes please

I'd pay for that.

absolutely

Please, This legit little app Nokia made ages ago intrigues me.

Yes

Wait, what?

Hol up

hol up

hol up

@@HavaNDay True love is special

A smartphone is more like a mini slate or tablet computer. The Nokia is more mini laptop.

​@@TheDawnofVanlife Unless she means she's using an older one still, with a full slide-out keyboard. 😉

yeah but i can play angry birds on my snapple X megapixel 3 pro S after a good 30 minutes of treading the slow melting of the components

You owned one of these really? How could you afford the price? Its slightly more expensive than todays priciest phones

what song?

@@Phoenixflame87 astronomia by tony igy, or just "coffin dance" works

well almost all of the nokias have had this feature.

I thought it was gonna be Scarlett fire lmao

My Nokia 3330 I got cheap off ebay came with In the End by Linkin Park as a custom ringtone.

True, maybe it is comparable to the z flip phones samsung makes?

@@TheDudey i don't think so, the samsung flip phones's idea based on old flip phone like "what if we make smartphone like flip phone" but in 1980 it's really new like u never seen it before or think about it about flip phone idea i think?

@@makotomachiyuki yeah i understand what you mean. Samsung is trying to make modern flip phones in a sense.

Same, I'm amazed

My mind broke in half

Shout out to older Nintendo handhelds for this exact reason.

honestly the game boy is a great example of a very durable object It survived a bombing and still functions Only thing that rivals it is the legendary Wii remote, that if you literally throw it at something like a TV there's a high chance the TV will break compared to the remote itself lol

The Nokia is a banger of a instrument

You joke but that was basically every teenager in the early 2000s.

@@Churbas dude i remember my old phone, it might have been an old Sony Ericsson Walkman nugget or something, and Buried deep in the rabbithole that is the Menu for that phone there was this thing for making real basic Songa. It was great

just a reminder that dankpods is also a drummer that doesn't make the joke any less funny, but still

it's still glorious

Its amazing

I was honestly expecting to get rickrolled

I was expecting darude sandstorm

Same

The solution for it was to have the barrel plug on the phone itself, like with every other nokia, at least the ones i remember from around 2000

P.S.: I wrote this comment before seeing the very similar comment from Em's Tek Tube.

@@TheDwarvenDefender copycat

@@dae1925 Ah, yes. "Abcd Xyz," the channel with the most _original_ name in existence, accusing me of being a copycat for making the most obvious observation of the video and commenting about it despite the fact that 400+ other people are sure to notice it. Who made the bot that you stole your username from, BTW?

@@TheDwarvenDefender holy fracking sheet bro chill 😂

@@TheDwarvenDefender I heard your dad once showed you a presentation on the consequences and implications of having unprotected intercourse All the slides were pictures of you.

Ohhh, I’m scared

D A D P O D S

haha. But to be honest; I'm kind of like a 'tweener'... like too young to be called a boomer; too old to be called a millennial.... I remember that when I was a young kid in early 90's, we had a phone where you actually had to dial a number; you know, with a circular plate where you had to bring each number back to zero.

@@stijnvdv2 so the return spring was broken on it?

777 👍

I know there’s a few TV brands that use RS232 for maintenance stuff, so if it’s acting up the TV tech can hook up a dedicated diagnostic program and have a look.

@@joshuahadams *Wayne Campbell voice* I was not aware of that.

@Joshua Roehl Your brain is so small, that it made a micron jelious

Wished it was a rickroll honestly.

Actually, it has an Intel 386 inside! And the phone hardware on a separate board.

@@krzbrew I knew it was two separate devices but I didn't knew one of them ran straight up PC CPU. That's amazing

@@DrathVader i'm wondering now how much ram it's got

@@oliviersavard8676 128kb maybe? it's got 2mb of storage so I'd not expect much... for modern standards, the thing must have felt like skynet back in the day

@@LeoMkII It has 4MB RAM and 4MB storage

Google will probably still load on that thing

The Action Retro youtube channel has a non-HTTPS site designed for pre-1994 Macs that converts news sites to basic HTML. The Nokia should easily render that.

I doubt that frequency it works on is even still supported.

@@arthurnonimus wouldn't matter if it's using a serial connection to a pc.

Or you can just buy a cheap used work oriented pc from any of the main manufacturers and it will still have a serial port. Serial ports are still being used today for all kinds of shit in the industry.

@Pete Harrison If you're implying that I'm Chinese, you're wrong. I'm Korean.

@Pete Harrison ...But I apologize if you didn't mean to.

@@user-ts8bv2ti5c its a bot

@@squirrelwithabanana hmm

Don't be sad my guy, it's natural selection. Just how nature works.

Yeah, it's as if there were people actually interested in computer stuff in the before times, too, eh? :P

@Pete Harrison mate what is this?

@@lero.official 💀💀

@@lero.official Probably some spam, only bots and fucking retards post comments containing a single link without any explanation. Just report his ass, that's what I always do.

Literally same. Not hot ones but stopped doing what I’m supposed to do

9 likes

@@brycescott9265 nah man, this is what you're supposed to do

haha same

same but it was cold ones

Relatable

I just can't compete... I don't have Fax Modem capabilities...

That’s probably the reason why I love film cameras.

Most certainly is lol. Sorry about the bots :(

"hey gottem"

its cool for today

Movies like The Matrix used technology like this when I was a kid before Smartphones were invented. Basically Smart devices are malware imo they log your keystrokes and sell your data I am about to go back to being old school if they got 4G basic phones.

I'm 9 yrs older then Nokia communicator

I was 13 when this revolutionary piece of technology dropped. Now I'm at the age that this is required for me to look at _the facebook,_ call my kids all the time *(AND WASTE A BUNCH OF MINUTES)* over simple questions that are not important at all, and "manage" _stuff_ with spreadsheets. I never wanted something so bad in my life.

Yes

I knew I recognized it, the polyphony threw me off.

@today was a good day shut it

Cute icon. And yeah Dankie is way funnier than most KZfaqrs lol.

@@freddieparrydrums we all gotta report these bots for the algorithm to start filtering them out

@@SonicBoone56 Yeah man agree

Cute dog in ur pfp

@@Virtual_Bastard art of zoo

So true man

@@Brian-jv8iy your opinion

lmao same

You should go get checked at the hospital

SAME

I came here to say this, I bet that bad boy has snake on it.

@@jderrick1994 Yeah the phone is not turned on, I remember the vertical bar line on the right when the battery died and you plugged it in. Also idk if this is the case with this phone, but when you had set the alarm, it could ring even when the phone was turned off.

Yup. I have a 9300 and for that it's also a separate part. It's basically a phone and pda slapped together. With minimal integration

Yup, it took until the Nokia E90 for a Communicator to run the same OS on the phone and PDA sides (i.e. you could start an app on the cover screen then open the phone up and carry on with a bigger screen). (PS - I also have a 9300!)

Its a 90s cell phone lol. I had one and I hated it

First

Second

third

Fourth?

@@randomamericansoldier8586 fifth

@UC54HgC_csZoGT4DIX6G54hQ 😳😳😳😳

@UC54HgC_csZoGT4DIX6G54hQ umm

if You see my comment you will see why i agree

Me too :)

@@ThreeIrishMen this man's voice is the cure for the common cold

LMAO

LOL

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

pog

Lol

i remember going through a college couse with some early cisco networking classes in 2011 (never went much further than that) and needing a specific model of laptop, provided by the school, because it was equipped with an in-built serial port. the moment he pulled that cable out i knew that this would definitely be a dream device for any sort of IT bigwig in '96!

Man that’s so cool, thanks for this little info bite! Were you one of those sysops perchance? I love hearing about this era and all the crazy stuff they were figuring out

@@Andy.Bennett No, but I was working as a web developer for an ISP in the mid 90s and my colleagues did. Many of them worked shifts or needed to be on call 24/7 if something broke. Much easier to have one of these than to carry a laptop out to dinner or the pub on a Friday night.

You are old 😂.Good info.

@@marem3038 I prefer "experienced" 😂

I had one (I'm old). It doesn't run MS-DOS. It uses PEN/GEOS as an OS. That's powered by ROM-DOS, which is MS-DOS compatible... mostly... kinda... it's compatible with certain versions of MS-DOS.

@@thelastmotel I very vaguely remember my friend's dad showing me dos games and command prompt on it circa 2001 when he'd upgraded to a 9210, I'm 35 years old now for reference.

@@adamreid5901 You could kinda get it to run some MS-DOS stuff, but it did it sketchily. Lot of crashes. It ran the stuff that came installed on it well, but anything you added, not so much. (I'm 50 in a few weeks. Time flies, it really does.)

DOOM on the Nokia 9000

@@thelastmotel you’ve certainly got more experience with it than I do so I’ll defer to you on this, time sure does fly

EXPOSED

I came here to say this!

Totally did not hear it the first time.

Honestly thought it was the shire theme from lotr

Same. And I’m just an amateur pianist.

Hello. It's also used in router and switch debug and BIOS debug, though within the past several years this is often an RJ-45 port used with a transceiver that outputs to DB9. Data collection about UEFI modules, MRC training, CPU stepping, SPD data in the RAM population, etc. Whereas in routers and L3 switches it is used to load a secure configuration before placing the device on a network where it is subject to potential exploitation and infiltration in a zero-trust modeled environment. I think that it would be weird to see it disappear completely, given as you say it has been a reliable technology. It still has many applications in engineering.

I've been called the same thing many times myself.

Closer to 30 years than 20! It’s incredible how little things can still stick around almost 3 decades later in little niches of technology.

rs232 has been around long before this and seeing rs232 on a device of this era is pretty much the only interface you could expect, irda is just rs232 over infrared, the palm pilot dock was rs232, most dot matrix printers from the 80's were rs232, every single modem made before about 1998 was entirely rs232 based (the later ones speak 8n1 serial just like a real modem but never actually convert to rs232 internally and do it all in software), it's been around since the 60's.

Yeah. It's crazy how well supported it still is! You can automate testing with different equipment that was made like 30 years apart and it still works like a charm.

I still have my win95 pc in the basement, WITH a floppydisk-drive, because, according to my dad, I will need it for school! Well, by the time I needed to use the pc floppies were no longer used. Sad really, I like them.

@@Masterofcreat they took soo long to write so little data and still managed to corrupt it somehow, one of if not the worst digital storage solutions ever

Hah! Came into that part while reading the comment.

there is an android app to make good old Nokia ringtones

@@HappyBeezerStudios I’m an iOS user but I’m sure that there’s probably some version of that on the App Store. Thanks for the heads up, brotha’!

same i fucking recoiled

I straight up made a noise which a cross between a duck and someone choking in shock/love of it.

I just said a mix between “what” and “woah” in shock.

Fun fact: There are still new devices being manufactured, which use serial cables similar in style to the one pictured.

Technically you can get away with 2 wires... clock and data. I2C. But I think that wasn't out 'til the mid-90s, and even then it was more of a Motorola thing. Still used today in lots of stuff. But it might've been doing something similar with 3 wires.

@@MattExzy I2C still requires ground line too, and it came out in the 1980s. There is also the 1-Wire bus, developed by Dallas/Maxim, which only needs 2 wires, but it was very new back then. Also, we shouldn't forget the background: RS-232 was the main interface standard for many decades back then, and sticking to it does have its benefits.

@@AndrejaKostic RS-232 is still taught and used, together with I2C, in many embedded applications. For consumers, it is pretty much dead, but for developers and tinkerers, it's still there doing its job every day. And while the PHY and DATA layers are pretty much gone, many USB devices are actually serial devices in disguise. If it ain't broken, don't fix it I guess.

@@bracco23 Yeah, exactly!

@today was a good day ah yes, Qur'an recitation. I am a Muslim already btw

@Pete Harrison P E R F E C T I O N !

@Machiko......🤗🍎 No

@@RedMarcus14 maybe

@@tpmartin210 yes - whats after yes?

@@ThreeIrishMen salamander

@Machiko......🤗🍎 no

Its Good For Ringtones And People Like Buisnessmen May Need Custom Personalized Ringtones

I think Nokia was also known back in the day for letting people compose their own ringtones if they wanted. I heard a lot of their older phones had this feature built in

it was a thing at that time to make midi ringtones...it started to disappear when mp3 became more of a norm

Being able to compose a ringtone was a big deal for the same reason polyphonic ringtones were. It allowed you to immediately know that it is your phone ringing. It was practical and made the phone more of a personal device rather than just a utility. And it was incredibly cool at the time to hear a recent song as a ringtone of a phone.

just find a way to get into a military RND station without being seen and youll realize why this is. technology doesnt evolve in a straight line - and human lives can buy some pretty cool stuff.. hence ww2 and Die Glocke

we really do!!!!

Than do not replace your phone. No one is forcing you. I use my samsung s10 since 2 years and I guess it will last the next 2-3 years also.

iPhone 13 pro max adding cinematic mode: am I a joke to you?

@@wolfetteplays8894 literally one feature? Not worth it for whatever exorbitant price they charge for it

well back then they were not limited by water resistance, content aspect ratios and so on. The market was so young the posibilities looked endless but we reached peak smartphone like 2 years ago, since then phones look kinda the same, they are just faster with better cameras

@@nolkerss It is if you're ready to buy a new phone anyway. I think people get hung up on the idea that _every_ phone release is meant to be a reason to buy a new phone. That's as silly as having every car model year be a reason to buy a new car. Ride it until the wheels fall off. Material science and engineering hasn't changed enough that you're going to witness a revolution since this time last year -- stop expecting it, and you won't be disappointed. Then the "exorbitant price" for "one feature" is just ... what a new phone costs, for a whole bundle of new features. It's probably still not going to change your life, but it's a mature device. It's not the 90s anymore - there isn't as much room for improvement. It'll just be a nice upgrade to do all the things you rely on that tool to do for you. That should be enough.

Ah, the good ol' days...

[ _Louis Rossman has entered the chat._ ] *Louis Rossman:* "Have you heard about our lord and savior, Right To Repair?"

That's what my wife says about me......

I don't wanna sound like know it all... but most stuff lasts longer than 2 years. My phone for example is over 5 years old now. My old pc still works. I still upgraded after like 7 years. If you take care of your stuff it will last you.

midrange phones can last a good 3-4 years now.. but the budget ones..

My dad on the other mocks me because i dont have viber and refuses to switch platforms and gets into arguments about the merits of viber vs messenger 😂

@today was a good day shut up bot

tbf mothers don't do it either, at least mine, she just sends audios via WhatsApp lol

Yes even when its frozen at absolute zero degrees

@today was a good day i thought you were someone replying, your a bot.

@@ThreeIrishMen Report them on sight. Spamming is against the rules.

@@theuncalledfor already one step ahead

Yeah, I remember my broke family saved and bought a packered bell in about ‘96 and it had a cd drive

I remember when CD drives where connected to sound cards (like Soundblaster) with a ribbon cable. Yes, there was a time when sound cards weren't integrated into motherboards.

CD burners were still expensive, but yeah just regular CD drives were pretty common place by then.

Was that the case worldwide, or specifically in the US?

BALLER

Life was great before smartphones and social media

@@ACommenterOnKZfaq says the user whose name is "You Tube"

@@LeeDee5