okay so this is really cool i'm on ebay the other day and you know the whole
theory that goes yeah you can sell or buy pretty much anything on ebay
i figured okay i'm gonna put this to the test
can i find my first
cell phone and the answer
is yes so this
is the motorola v100e
or as it was called over here in north america the v box it was my first cell
phone and apparently this thing works
so i am going to open it up and show you guys
just how stone age i am
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so i think one of the most fun things about this video is going to be to
compare and contrast my current daily driver here in 2018
with the very first cell phone that i
ever owned uh and i got this thing back
in well i mean i could probably just look at the okay packed in the eu
blah blah blah does it have a does it
have any kind of date information on it so hold on a
second so i was i was 16 i had just gotten my full
license the deal was that i got a car
and a cell phone it's a pretty sweet deal
as long as i was willing to drive my four siblings to and from wherever they
needed to go and as long as i was at my
parents beck and call at any time so this was like effectively i was the
family driver and this was like my pager so that would have been
about 2003 i want to say probably around
around around 2003 so that was 15 years
ago holy crap am i ever getting old
so let's talk a little bit about this thing it has a special keypad console which
makes text messaging to your friends easier use to access a range of information
via your phone including cinema listings entertainment and sport
cool that worked out great wide screen
visual display excellent from when you are playing you're playing from a choice
of three games so my mom my stepdad and i all got the
same phones and it was important for us because my mom is hard of hearing so
talking with her on the phone isn't really an option so this was all of a
sudden a reason for us to have phones and a way for us to stay in touch so i
got this super cheap plan that had like
a hundred minutes like and no no like unlimited weekends or evenings or
anything like that and then it was mostly i just had like 250 text messages
and so we could we could text back and forth so here i want to show you guys
what's in here so um this is just from an ebay seller so i
actually am not a hundred percent oh
oh okay hold on no no it's okay so sorry uh i was thinking oh no it doesn't come
with the north american adapter but actually they just used the north
american version to adapt to the uk one so we just we
just dodged a huge bullet here because like i could have probably found a
substitute for this or like
freaking i don't know it's for 4.4 volts
1 amp what the hell is that do you guys like do you guys remember non-standard
mobile device chargers what a nightmare that was like it's it's so easy to take
for granted stuff that we just don't have to deal with anymore all right so
hopefully we're good then what else we got
um battery storage case for your protection
store battery in this case when not in use uh well someone clearly didn't read the
label i wonder if it even comes with a battery i mean this battery is long dead
like years ago this battery was dead
okay you know what i'm gonna get to this later it was the worst thing about this
phone by far this
okay i was actually kind of worried that uh
this wasn't gonna be the right thing but no this
this is it you know i'm actually so sad
that clear plastic casings died off like
does that not actually look kind of cool oh yeah like if you could buy a modern
cell phone that had a backing like that so you could see the battery and stuff
would that not be cool um so yeah you can see actually you can
see the pcb for the display here uh mine had a different logo mine had like a
motorola logo um i didn't have a rogers logo i don't know i think i'm pretty
sure it just had a standard motorola logo in terms of i o
there's an ok button here that i that you could use to answer calls
i don't remember what this special button over here did uh this right here
is the charging port nothing on the back just the hinge here and then
what glory be it's got a headphone jack so as cool as
it was that my phone had a headphone jack
oh boy this is in about as good condition as
i'd expect it to be the headphone jack
had a little problem problem number one
it wasn't a three and a half mil it was the less standard more fragile
two and a half mil problem number the second
the headphone jack was actually
the only way to get audio in and out of the device
did that just blow your mind yeah oh boy so get this
the expectation okay for motorola geniuses that they are other than some
pretty stupid crap they've pulled over the years the expectation was that this
goes in your pocket or clips to your belt because that was a thing back then
okay and you put this very comfortable
earpiece in your ear
and you just kind of hope that that sits somewhere kind of desirable also it
wasn't a very good microphone now there was another solution and i did
invest in this aforementioned other solution for myself
and that was that you could pull the battery cover off
and there was a module that added about this much more thickness to the phone
that had a microphone in one end and an
earphone jack in the other end and then a little wire that plugged into here
so you had this like dongle
and actually it was the it must have been the other way it was the other way so you had this dongle and you would
hold it like this up up against your head and it was like
literally this thick by that point it had kind of this weird kind of wavy sort
of pattern to it anyway i i wasn't able to get one of those because
who the hell would have kept them but as you guys can probably
guess having it sitting like that in your pocket all the time
wore out the headphone jacks within a matter of months for every single one of
us to the point where i was always like this with my pinky on the jack holding
it in place while i'm trying to conduct a phone call
let's find out if this ebay seller is full of crap so they claim it works
why they even had this thing why they thought to list it on ebay i don't know
but it was their freaking lucky day because i paid like 70 bucks for it
which is most assuredly not worth i just hey hey look at that
charging complete baby although i'm willing to bet
yeah it turns off immediately this battery is completely hoopty-hooped whoa
hey no
nice holy crap
it's working
so the frequency support for this phone is such that there's no way i'm getting
on a network it's like i forget we're we're 800 over here and they're 850 over
there gsm blah blah blah it doesn't matter anyway the point is there's no
way that's going to work over here but what we can do
is holy crap access internet
yeah network not available i should certainly think so i think yeah i think
we're done here do you do you remember when phones used
to have like limited number of phone numbers you could store on them and stuff oh yeah
show call timers right right
because we used to be so worried about how long we were spending on the phone
because we only had a limited number of minutes that like it was important to have a timer
oh man audible call timer so it would beep every minute so you'd know how many
minutes you're using that is so awesome
wow i just had like a like a flashback
moment that was my ringtone like in high school you know
ring or vibrate at least i had vibrate you couldn't take that for granted back
then so that was nice when i'd get texts um
in class or whatever
i used this one at one point
sorry i'm just like having fun right now i guess i could
keep making a video hey oops that's menu crap
hey sup
thanks for
helping
it's a terrible keyboard thanks for helping me instead
e call or something i don't know i mean i didn't really have a lot of functions
i think the last thing to really show off for you guys
has got to be games oh oh that's right hold on hold on
there so that's your quick settings like all your quick stuff
vibrate on and off oh my god this is so awesome
internet you're right okay
last thing then play some games towers of hanoi
baccarat and bricks
so i actually never really played um
towers open away like like i know i know how the game works
and then baccarat i didn't really understand the game at the time
options bet on player bet on banker bet on tai
and you just you put in like an amount
and then you deal and then someone would win and then
you would get or lose points
so i didn't really like get it
yeah we can end the game but bricks
i played a lot
and like the other games
there wasn't really a great deal of depth to it
like it's not like the ball starts to go faster
or anything in fact if i recall correctly once you
clear the bricks uh you just bounce the ball around in an
empty thing but don't quote me on that let's we're just gonna have to see how
this plays out i think like the funny thing is i could say to my kids with a
straight face when i was a boy we only had one level
and we were happy to have it and of course like the paddle does not
like the the the spot on the paddle that you hit doesn't affect the angle the
ball comes off it at so
you just kind of have to
i gotta go to wancho but instead i'm stuck here like
oh oh oh
no is it affected by how you're moving
when it hits it is two there we go
physics so you can spin it
okay all right we got this we got this i can do it i can do it wait for it
ah shoot that could have gotten it too
okay
did we get it yeah we got it score
yes that's right so you could pause when
it was clear and you could like
take a breather and then continue later
so that's it you guys that was my first phone the motorola v100 or vbox as it
was called by my carrier here in canada um
there were a lot of a lot of sacrifices
there was not a lot of sex appeal but for better or for worse
that got me through my high school social life
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