shopping for a phone these days is so boring let's see do I want the black
rectangle or would I rather have the other black rectangle that's totally
different and definitely deserves my undying brand loyalty or would I rather
have this I mean how freaking cool are
these we've got the camcorder
phone we got the lipstick phone we've
got a total of 10 of the weirdest coolest mobile devices from the past
decades we've even got the sponsor phone
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of these yet we're shooting the intro at the end so I am just as excited as you
guys are actually maybe more so because I get to play a fun little game as we go
through I'll be guessing the release year and the starting price of every
device beginning with
oo the kyera Echo
M9300 I see this has a charging cable plugged into it I'm going to hope for
the what no way the folding phone from
before folding phones USB micro B volume
rocker power look at how easily accessible that Oh I thought it was the
SIM tray but of course remember micro SD expansion anyone wait there's still a
Micro SD card in here hey I just got a free micro SD card well not really free
we paid uh $58 for this phone which is
great okay it's Android that means it's not that old built-in camera this is
apparently 5 megapixels and record 720p
video it's got 512 Megs of RAM a gig of
storage and uses a Snapdragon S1 it has at least three different modes
candy bar mode home lock flick to unlock
remember when Apple was all mad about that oh my God early Android was ugly
also when was the home button on the left I don't remember that I guess this
is gaming oh I guess this was a gaming
Centric phone one thing no nobody misses
is all the horrible preloaded carrier
junk on this thing The Sims 3 actually
okay that's pretty cool right right right the third operating mode tablet
mode Microsoft I see where you got the inspiration for the surface Duo you
nailed it I always like having a big gap down the middle of my screen oh that's
cool back before the home button and back button were on screen they were
hardware buttons and it's got it on both screens so you have all the
flexibility oh I didn't even notice the coolest thing about the hinge you can
kind of snap it so you don't have that big gap okay are the download server
still up for this
man yeah that shouldn't surprise me that much come on I feel like I have to play
a game on the get Namco games activity
launchers not responding tablet mode
uh whoops didn't think that one through
WAP shop kind of glad this didn't load anything not fooling around though it's
guest time and I'm going to say
20110
$400 oh I like freaking nailed it then I
think things are about to get a little bit harder though oh this I know what
this is this is my first cell phone there will be absolutely no excuse for
me to get this wrong I actually did a whole video on this one it's absolutely
amazing to my knowledge this was the
first phone ever with a full keyboard
calling it a phone is a little bit generous you see it didn't have a
speaker or a microphone built into it it was actually an accessory so you had to
unlock it and then replace the battery cover here with this like figure8 shaped
wart that went on the back and then it had a cable that plugged into this mini
2 and 1/2 mm Jack with a little squiggly cord which obviously broke on every
single one of the ones we had I had one my mom had one and my dad had one the
reason is that my mom's hard of hearing so talking via voice was not really an
option but being able to quickly text was flipping awesome the best thing
about this phone though by far was the games phones were cheaper back then
let's say 350 bucks wait this came out
that early oh okay sorry my memory all right how much was it you could still
buy it I give up but I don't give up on
guessing my next one meet the Z Bri 2
and the Z Bri four these both came out at the same time and come with the
nicknames the alien Beauty and the dark
hero I am actually not sure which one is supposed to be which and I got to
confess I had no idea these were from Seamans I assumed that they were from
zri like a Chinese brand or something
the alien beauty is available in soft colors of aqua and white move crap I
still don't know which one is which it hints at inner femininity I gu guess
it's this one then because it kind of looks like a birth control packet
highlighted features include aerodynamic Contours and an unconventional keep oh
my God that's the keypad that is truly atrocious it has an integrated back clip
so you can wear it on a collar cuff or bag turn on then it wow that's a cool
boot sound effect both feature 101X 65
pixel monochrome displays and support 100 contacts in your phone
book one is that like a taxad dery dog or
what this is a really long commercial I
guess the idea is you kind of dare to be different or something or like hey
please check date in time let's go menu
messages recent calls clock God that
responsiveness though hello I mean there's no camera on it but you do get
this handy little carrying strap clock is a pictures
spiral ringer
Melodies 2001
$400 really this came 3 years after this
what okay next up we've got the noia
n93 this is also known as the cam
quarter f is that a lens cap you have got to be
kidding me is this the
ergonomics you got the screen like oh no no it's like this oh no way it it's like
a Transformer oh this is kind of sick
Carl Zeiss lens 3x Optical 3.2
megapixels this would have probably been a ball camera at the time I can't
believe it came with the lens cap it used a 332 MHz dual arm1 processor 64 MB
of RAM 50 mb of storage so um I guess
you weren't I'm recording a lot of video to
it it had dual power inputs either a
barrel Jack or this big old connector
and then what is this please tell me this is micro SD expansion it's got to
be oh oh oh color display let's go 240x
320 oh oh wow that Sim mechanism though
wo let's go oh wow it rebooted pretty
hard there does not like having the SIM card swapped while it's on whether we
get the camera fired up or not it could do 480p video at 30 FPS and had its own
photo and video editor along with a TV output and support for predictive text
this must have been like 650 bucks
that's definitely on the spot I see what they were going for with this one right
the side of your head not flat well I
have kind of hollow cheeks but like Andy
oh perfect perfect it's the 8110 known
as the Banana Phone before the Matrix came out in 1999 after which it was
known as The Matrix phone that gives me a pretty good hint as to the time frame
for it but o o oh oh that that's kind of
cool look the the ergonomics get even better imagine putting a microphone
right next to your mouth where the other person might actually be able to hear you check this out they've got these
cool sliding contacts back here and that's all wired up to the mic down
there I actually kind of like that clever mechanical design you just don't
see much of it in phones these days maybe the last really cool mechanical
design I saw on a phone was oneplus's popup front-facing camera they don't
want moving Parts moving Parts aren't reliable this we're going all the way
back from propri rary Chargers to proprietary batteries specific to the
phone the display might not look like much but this monochrome graphic LCD was
revolutionary at the time it could display both English and Asian
characters with a resolution of 4x3 characters wow it could also hold
125 contacts in the phone book and I'm going to say in I don't know 1998 then a
year before the movie 500 bucks hey I'm not that far off then W wo
it reveals the camera this is the Nokia
7280 also known as the lipstick phone it
was inspired by the glamor and elegance of the lavish
1920s it was a completely new mobile phone design which forwent the
traditional keypad for a discreet keyless dial fullsize Sim I think we're
golden I think it's charging all right sick okay let's go to the menu okay what
does this wheel do go to men oh oh hello how the devil do I type wait it suggests
a handful of First characters a TS I and
O then it's just the alphabet Oh this is
acious this would take 1,000 years to do
anything useful with display looks pretty good though oh my goodness look
at that tiny little camera
window oh on Earth do I get this picture out of here now it's Endy oh oh oh there
we go how do I get to the right side of the image oh wow that is truly awful
this thing sucks I'm going to say 2009
and it's 500 bucks this had a display this good in
2004 this was like an $800 Us phone this
cost like a modern iPhone Max Pro Ultra
thing
this is fun micro be charging love to
see it compared to the Alternatives we're looking at today o nice little
charging indicator 512 Megs of storage
Bluetooth 2.1 oh it runs Android it's so
adorable ooh that animation though is
that sparkle in the screen protector
what hey but you know what's nice has some pretty thoughtful features eh
easily replaceable battery love to see it and check this out just like an
Instax camera it's got a little tiny mirror next to the rear camera so that
you can see if you're in the frame it's 320x 240 2.8 in yes this is just a home
button why it's there we'll never know
this is not ergonomic um it's like right
here you can't hold it in a way that um
okay wow Memory full or no SD card video
capture length less than 1 second um all right sorry I guess that won't be
happening but at least it supported micro SD this back button hello open
phone for full screen capture man I suck at this 250
bucks that's a yikes I mean at least it had a keyboard which at the time was a
feature oh this thing would be infuriating to
use ooh TV button the Virgin Mobile Lobster
700 TV so named because it was shaped
like a lobster's claw this is the world's first dab IP enabled headset
digital audio broadcasting over IP and was nicknamed the telephone because it's
a TV it has a 320x 240 pixel display
65,000 colors 64 Megs of RAM it's got a
1.3 megapixel camera and uses a single core Texas Instruments processor
actually feels pretty robust like I could imagine being in the store and
being like yeah I want a phone that I can just like Huck around and this seems
like the one oh it runs Windows mobile
though oh that means I probably got
game but hey it's better to have game than to not have game know what I'm
saying whoa MP3 player as long as you
don't mind using the little tiny Jack and the proprietary charger or wait is
that mini B I think that's mini B all right camera let's open up the
camera that shutter down
uh no touchcreen so we weren't at that stage yet it do off bubble breaker I
played this game so much definitely better with a stylus I'll tell you that
mucho hold on I got to beat my bubble breaker high score
420 whoop 2010
$400 damn it the noia 7600 code name
mango also known as the Nokia Leaf this
is one of their earliest 3G handsets and was is designed as a fashion product
they got to stop doing that this was the beginning of phones being impossible to
figure out how to open first you have to pull off this okay cuz that makes
perfect sense then you like pull off this one or something then you can slide
it open oh yeah great perfect love it
the trippiest part is that for every one of these they absolutely had to sell
thousands and thousands of units otherwise they couldn't possibly cover
the tooling costs for it and development costs like six maybe sure you can find
someone who's dumb enough to want a keypad like this
but it's a 2-in display running at
128x 160 65,000 colors it has 29 megab
of storage meaning that that VGA camera is not going to be taking very many
pictures and my notes here say it was considered difficult to use let's dial a
number yeah I could get there eventually
this is awful calculator voice commands that's it oh wait games yes yes select
puzzle what is puzzle okay I'm losing points right now uh yeah I don't think
we need to continue playing that game I do want to try the camera though
standard pH oh portrait F got portrait mode yeah I'm going to need the extra
light it's awful 2006 300
bucks no wonder Apple came in and ate
their lunch this is what Nokia was doing for styl
Eng the Playstation phone it has an LED
backlit LCD that's 480x 854 16x9 aspect
ratio ooh slide up design with wow a
PlayStation controller it is freaking
heavy micr B charging all left and right
shoulder buttons it's kind of wild that Sony
doesn't cross-pollinate between their business units more you know this hinge
sucks look at this look how much play there is in this gaming phone you can
fit so much play in this bad boy uses a 1 GHz scorpion CPU and an adreno 205 GPU
has 400 megab of storage it included an
8 gig micro SD card though this is interesting the spec says 720p video but
the end gadget review says it is not 720p so h got some controversy here okay
SIM card goes in there oh a screw just came
out uh this is an awful lot of phone
taken up by things that are not the text field that I am inputting
to oh yeah that's haptic sounds that you hear they are awful what could go wrong
whoa look at all these games Bruce Lee
Dragon wait please insert SD C okay fine fine fine I'll put in an SD card get up
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
want to play FIFA 10 40 Megs is required I got the space utter disappointment no
wonder you failed I'm going to say this was like 600 bucks in
2013 wa what is this the Motorola starac
rainbow is this a front mounted battery
what it's definitely cooler on a car
this just looks like Fisher Price it had monophonic ring tones it had a 2X 12
character display and held 100 contacts
I'm going to guess that this was like Stylin and was like 600 bucks was
$1,000 for this oh wow if you enjoyed
this video make sure to check out the one where we looked at weird keyboards from AliExpress definitely a similar
vibe