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shopping for a phone these days is so boring let's see do I want the black

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rectangle or would I rather have the other black rectangle that's totally

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different and definitely deserves my undying brand loyalty or would I rather

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have this I mean how freaking cool are

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these we've got the camcorder

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phone we got the lipstick phone we've

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got a total of 10 of the weirdest coolest mobile devices from the past

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decades we've even got the sponsor phone

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wait who put this one in here oh you know what I bet it was build Redux take

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the challenge and hassle out of building your own PC with build Redux they

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provide plenty of configuration options they're competitively priced compared to

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building it yourself and they've got support guides to Aid you when your rig

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arrives head to the link below to start your new build today I haven't seen any

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of these yet we're shooting the intro at the end so I am just as excited as you

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guys are actually maybe more so because I get to play a fun little game as we go

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through I'll be guessing the release year and the starting price of every

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device beginning with

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oo the kyera Echo

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M9300 I see this has a charging cable plugged into it I'm going to hope for

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the what no way the folding phone from

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before folding phones USB micro B volume

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rocker power look at how easily accessible that Oh I thought it was the

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SIM tray but of course remember micro SD expansion anyone wait there's still a

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Micro SD card in here hey I just got a free micro SD card well not really free

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we paid uh $58 for this phone which is

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great okay it's Android that means it's not that old built-in camera this is

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apparently 5 megapixels and record 720p

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video it's got 512 Megs of RAM a gig of

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storage and uses a Snapdragon S1 it has at least three different modes

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candy bar mode home lock flick to unlock

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remember when Apple was all mad about that oh my God early Android was ugly

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also when was the home button on the left I don't remember that I guess this

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is gaming oh I guess this was a gaming

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Centric phone one thing no nobody misses

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is all the horrible preloaded carrier

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junk on this thing The Sims 3 actually

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okay that's pretty cool right right right the third operating mode tablet

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mode Microsoft I see where you got the inspiration for the surface Duo you

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nailed it I always like having a big gap down the middle of my screen oh that's

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cool back before the home button and back button were on screen they were

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hardware buttons and it's got it on both screens so you have all the

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flexibility oh I didn't even notice the coolest thing about the hinge you can

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kind of snap it so you don't have that big gap okay are the download server

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still up for this

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man yeah that shouldn't surprise me that much come on I feel like I have to play

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a game on the get Namco games activity

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launchers not responding tablet mode

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uh whoops didn't think that one through

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WAP shop kind of glad this didn't load anything not fooling around though it's

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guest time and I'm going to say

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20110

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$400 oh I like freaking nailed it then I

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think things are about to get a little bit harder though oh this I know what

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this is this is my first cell phone there will be absolutely no excuse for

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me to get this wrong I actually did a whole video on this one it's absolutely

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amazing to my knowledge this was the

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first phone ever with a full keyboard

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calling it a phone is a little bit generous you see it didn't have a

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speaker or a microphone built into it it was actually an accessory so you had to

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unlock it and then replace the battery cover here with this like figure8 shaped

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wart that went on the back and then it had a cable that plugged into this mini

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2 and 1/2 mm Jack with a little squiggly cord which obviously broke on every

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single one of the ones we had I had one my mom had one and my dad had one the

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reason is that my mom's hard of hearing so talking via voice was not really an

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option but being able to quickly text was flipping awesome the best thing

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about this phone though by far was the games phones were cheaper back then

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let's say 350 bucks wait this came out

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that early oh okay sorry my memory all right how much was it you could still

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buy it I give up but I don't give up on

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guessing my next one meet the Z Bri 2

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and the Z Bri four these both came out at the same time and come with the

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nicknames the alien Beauty and the dark

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hero I am actually not sure which one is supposed to be which and I got to

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confess I had no idea these were from Seamans I assumed that they were from

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zri like a Chinese brand or something

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the alien beauty is available in soft colors of aqua and white move crap I

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still don't know which one is which it hints at inner femininity I gu guess

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it's this one then because it kind of looks like a birth control packet

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highlighted features include aerodynamic Contours and an unconventional keep oh

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my God that's the keypad that is truly atrocious it has an integrated back clip

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so you can wear it on a collar cuff or bag turn on then it wow that's a cool

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boot sound effect both feature 101X 65

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pixel monochrome displays and support 100 contacts in your phone

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book one is that like a taxad dery dog or

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what this is a really long commercial I

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guess the idea is you kind of dare to be different or something or like hey

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please check date in time let's go menu

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messages recent calls clock God that

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responsiveness though hello I mean there's no camera on it but you do get

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this handy little carrying strap clock is a pictures

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spiral ringer

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Melodies 2001

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$400 really this came 3 years after this

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what okay next up we've got the noia

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n93 this is also known as the cam

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quarter f is that a lens cap you have got to be

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kidding me is this the

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ergonomics you got the screen like oh no no it's like this oh no way it it's like

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a Transformer oh this is kind of sick

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Carl Zeiss lens 3x Optical 3.2

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megapixels this would have probably been a ball camera at the time I can't

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believe it came with the lens cap it used a 332 MHz dual arm1 processor 64 MB

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of RAM 50 mb of storage so um I guess

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you weren't I'm recording a lot of video to

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it it had dual power inputs either a

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barrel Jack or this big old connector

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and then what is this please tell me this is micro SD expansion it's got to

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be oh oh oh color display let's go 240x

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320 oh oh wow that Sim mechanism though

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wo let's go oh wow it rebooted pretty

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hard there does not like having the SIM card swapped while it's on whether we

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get the camera fired up or not it could do 480p video at 30 FPS and had its own

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photo and video editor along with a TV output and support for predictive text

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this must have been like 650 bucks

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that's definitely on the spot I see what they were going for with this one right

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the side of your head not flat well I

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have kind of hollow cheeks but like Andy

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oh perfect perfect it's the 8110 known

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as the Banana Phone before the Matrix came out in 1999 after which it was

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known as The Matrix phone that gives me a pretty good hint as to the time frame

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for it but o o oh oh that that's kind of

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cool look the the ergonomics get even better imagine putting a microphone

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right next to your mouth where the other person might actually be able to hear you check this out they've got these

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cool sliding contacts back here and that's all wired up to the mic down

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there I actually kind of like that clever mechanical design you just don't

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see much of it in phones these days maybe the last really cool mechanical

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design I saw on a phone was oneplus's popup front-facing camera they don't

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want moving Parts moving Parts aren't reliable this we're going all the way

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back from propri rary Chargers to proprietary batteries specific to the

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phone the display might not look like much but this monochrome graphic LCD was

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revolutionary at the time it could display both English and Asian

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characters with a resolution of 4x3 characters wow it could also hold

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125 contacts in the phone book and I'm going to say in I don't know 1998 then a

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year before the movie 500 bucks hey I'm not that far off then W wo

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it reveals the camera this is the Nokia

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7280 also known as the lipstick phone it

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was inspired by the glamor and elegance of the lavish

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1920s it was a completely new mobile phone design which forwent the

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traditional keypad for a discreet keyless dial fullsize Sim I think we're

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golden I think it's charging all right sick okay let's go to the menu okay what

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does this wheel do go to men oh oh hello how the devil do I type wait it suggests

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a handful of First characters a TS I and

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O then it's just the alphabet Oh this is

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acious this would take 1,000 years to do

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anything useful with display looks pretty good though oh my goodness look

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at that tiny little camera

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window oh on Earth do I get this picture out of here now it's Endy oh oh oh there

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we go how do I get to the right side of the image oh wow that is truly awful

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this thing sucks I'm going to say 2009

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and it's 500 bucks this had a display this good in

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2004 this was like an $800 Us phone this

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cost like a modern iPhone Max Pro Ultra

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thing

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this is fun micro be charging love to

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see it compared to the Alternatives we're looking at today o nice little

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charging indicator 512 Megs of storage

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Bluetooth 2.1 oh it runs Android it's so

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adorable ooh that animation though is

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that sparkle in the screen protector

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what hey but you know what's nice has some pretty thoughtful features eh

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easily replaceable battery love to see it and check this out just like an

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Instax camera it's got a little tiny mirror next to the rear camera so that

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you can see if you're in the frame it's 320x 240 2.8 in yes this is just a home

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button why it's there we'll never know

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this is not ergonomic um it's like right

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here you can't hold it in a way that um

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okay wow Memory full or no SD card video

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capture length less than 1 second um all right sorry I guess that won't be

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happening but at least it supported micro SD this back button hello open

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phone for full screen capture man I suck at this 250

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bucks that's a yikes I mean at least it had a keyboard which at the time was a

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feature oh this thing would be infuriating to

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use ooh TV button the Virgin Mobile Lobster

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700 TV so named because it was shaped

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like a lobster's claw this is the world's first dab IP enabled headset

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digital audio broadcasting over IP and was nicknamed the telephone because it's

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a TV it has a 320x 240 pixel display

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65,000 colors 64 Megs of RAM it's got a

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1.3 megapixel camera and uses a single core Texas Instruments processor

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actually feels pretty robust like I could imagine being in the store and

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being like yeah I want a phone that I can just like Huck around and this seems

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like the one oh it runs Windows mobile

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though oh that means I probably got

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game but hey it's better to have game than to not have game know what I'm

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saying whoa MP3 player as long as you

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don't mind using the little tiny Jack and the proprietary charger or wait is

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that mini B I think that's mini B all right camera let's open up the

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camera that shutter down

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uh no touchcreen so we weren't at that stage yet it do off bubble breaker I

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played this game so much definitely better with a stylus I'll tell you that

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mucho hold on I got to beat my bubble breaker high score

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420 whoop 2010

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$400 damn it the noia 7600 code name

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mango also known as the Nokia Leaf this

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is one of their earliest 3G handsets and was is designed as a fashion product

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they got to stop doing that this was the beginning of phones being impossible to

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figure out how to open first you have to pull off this okay cuz that makes

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perfect sense then you like pull off this one or something then you can slide

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it open oh yeah great perfect love it

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the trippiest part is that for every one of these they absolutely had to sell

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thousands and thousands of units otherwise they couldn't possibly cover

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the tooling costs for it and development costs like six maybe sure you can find

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someone who's dumb enough to want a keypad like this

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but it's a 2-in display running at

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128x 160 65,000 colors it has 29 megab

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of storage meaning that that VGA camera is not going to be taking very many

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pictures and my notes here say it was considered difficult to use let's dial a

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number yeah I could get there eventually

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this is awful calculator voice commands that's it oh wait games yes yes select

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puzzle what is puzzle okay I'm losing points right now uh yeah I don't think

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we need to continue playing that game I do want to try the camera though

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standard pH oh portrait F got portrait mode yeah I'm going to need the extra

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light it's awful 2006 300

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bucks no wonder Apple came in and ate

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their lunch this is what Nokia was doing for styl

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Eng the Playstation phone it has an LED

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backlit LCD that's 480x 854 16x9 aspect

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ratio ooh slide up design with wow a

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PlayStation controller it is freaking

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heavy micr B charging all left and right

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shoulder buttons it's kind of wild that Sony

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doesn't cross-pollinate between their business units more you know this hinge

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sucks look at this look how much play there is in this gaming phone you can

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fit so much play in this bad boy uses a 1 GHz scorpion CPU and an adreno 205 GPU

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has 400 megab of storage it included an

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8 gig micro SD card though this is interesting the spec says 720p video but

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the end gadget review says it is not 720p so h got some controversy here okay

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SIM card goes in there oh a screw just came

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out uh this is an awful lot of phone

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taken up by things that are not the text field that I am inputting

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to oh yeah that's haptic sounds that you hear they are awful what could go wrong

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whoa look at all these games Bruce Lee

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Dragon wait please insert SD C okay fine fine fine I'll put in an SD card get up

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all right look at that I don't even need to take out the battery and reboot for my SD card let's go I have an SD card I

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want to play FIFA 10 40 Megs is required I got the space utter disappointment no

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wonder you failed I'm going to say this was like 600 bucks in

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2013 wa what is this the Motorola starac

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rainbow is this a front mounted battery

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what it's definitely cooler on a car

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this just looks like Fisher Price it had monophonic ring tones it had a 2X 12

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character display and held 100 contacts

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I'm going to guess that this was like Stylin and was like 600 bucks was

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$1,000 for this oh wow if you enjoyed

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this video make sure to check out the one where we looked at weird keyboards from AliExpress definitely a similar

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