My first phone was CRAZY!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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2,325 words · ~11 min read
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okay so this is really cool i'm on ebay the other day and you know the whole
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theory that goes yeah you can sell or buy pretty much anything on ebay
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i figured okay i'm gonna put this to the test
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can i find my first
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cell phone and the answer
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is yes so this
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is the motorola v100e
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or as it was called over here in north america the v box it was my first cell
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phone and apparently this thing works
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so i am going to open it up and show you guys
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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
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compare and contrast my current daily driver here in 2018
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with the very first cell phone that i
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ever owned uh and i got this thing back
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in well i mean i could probably just look at the okay packed in the eu
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blah blah blah does it have a does it
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have any kind of date information on it so hold on a
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second so i was i was 16 i had just gotten my full
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license the deal was that i got a car
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and a cell phone it's a pretty sweet deal
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as long as i was willing to drive my four siblings to and from wherever they
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needed to go and as long as i was at my
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parents beck and call at any time so this was like effectively i was the
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family driver and this was like my pager so that would have been
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about 2003 i want to say probably around
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around around 2003 so that was 15 years
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ago holy crap am i ever getting old
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so let's talk a little bit about this thing it has a special keypad console which
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makes text messaging to your friends easier use to access a range of information
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via your phone including cinema listings entertainment and sport
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cool that worked out great wide screen
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visual display excellent from when you are playing you're playing from a choice
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of three games so my mom my stepdad and i all got the
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same phones and it was important for us because my mom is hard of hearing so
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talking with her on the phone isn't really an option so this was all of a
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sudden a reason for us to have phones and a way for us to stay in touch so i
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got this super cheap plan that had like
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a hundred minutes like and no no like unlimited weekends or evenings or
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anything like that and then it was mostly i just had like 250 text messages
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and so we could we could text back and forth so here i want to show you guys
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what's in here so um this is just from an ebay seller so i
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actually am not a hundred percent oh
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oh okay hold on no no it's okay so sorry uh i was thinking oh no it doesn't come
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with the north american adapter but actually they just used the north
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american version to adapt to the uk one so we just we
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just dodged a huge bullet here because like i could have probably found a
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substitute for this or like
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freaking i don't know it's for 4.4 volts
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1 amp what the hell is that do you guys like do you guys remember non-standard
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mobile device chargers what a nightmare that was like it's it's so easy to take
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for granted stuff that we just don't have to deal with anymore all right so
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hopefully we're good then what else we got
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um battery storage case for your protection
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store battery in this case when not in use uh well someone clearly didn't read the
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label i wonder if it even comes with a battery i mean this battery is long dead
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like years ago this battery was dead
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okay you know what i'm gonna get to this later it was the worst thing about this
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phone by far this
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okay i was actually kind of worried that uh
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this wasn't gonna be the right thing but no this
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this is it you know i'm actually so sad
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that clear plastic casings died off like
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does that not actually look kind of cool oh yeah like if you could buy a modern
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cell phone that had a backing like that so you could see the battery and stuff
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would that not be cool um so yeah you can see actually you can
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see the pcb for the display here uh mine had a different logo mine had like a
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motorola logo um i didn't have a rogers logo i don't know i think i'm pretty
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sure it just had a standard motorola logo in terms of i o
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there's an ok button here that i that you could use to answer calls
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i don't remember what this special button over here did uh this right here
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is the charging port nothing on the back just the hinge here and then
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what glory be it's got a headphone jack so as cool as
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it was that my phone had a headphone jack
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oh boy this is in about as good condition as
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i'd expect it to be the headphone jack
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had a little problem problem number one
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it wasn't a three and a half mil it was the less standard more fragile
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two and a half mil problem number the second
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the headphone jack was actually
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the only way to get audio in and out of the device
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did that just blow your mind yeah oh boy so get this
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the expectation okay for motorola geniuses that they are other than some
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pretty stupid crap they've pulled over the years the expectation was that this
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goes in your pocket or clips to your belt because that was a thing back then
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okay and you put this very comfortable
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earpiece in your ear
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and you just kind of hope that that sits somewhere kind of desirable also it
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wasn't a very good microphone now there was another solution and i did
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invest in this aforementioned other solution for myself
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and that was that you could pull the battery cover off
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and there was a module that added about this much more thickness to the phone
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that had a microphone in one end and an
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earphone jack in the other end and then a little wire that plugged into here
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so you had this like dongle
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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
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hold it like this up up against your head and it was like
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literally this thick by that point it had kind of this weird kind of wavy sort
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of pattern to it anyway i i wasn't able to get one of those because
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who the hell would have kept them but as you guys can probably
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guess having it sitting like that in your pocket all the time
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wore out the headphone jacks within a matter of months for every single one of
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us to the point where i was always like this with my pinky on the jack holding
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it in place while i'm trying to conduct a phone call
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let's find out if this ebay seller is full of crap so they claim it works
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why they even had this thing why they thought to list it on ebay i don't know
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but it was their freaking lucky day because i paid like 70 bucks for it
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which is most assuredly not worth i just hey hey look at that
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charging complete baby although i'm willing to bet
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yeah it turns off immediately this battery is completely hoopty-hooped whoa
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hey no
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nice holy crap
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it's working
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so the frequency support for this phone is such that there's no way i'm getting
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on a network it's like i forget we're we're 800 over here and they're 850 over
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there gsm blah blah blah it doesn't matter anyway the point is there's no
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way that's going to work over here but what we can do
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is holy crap access internet
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yeah network not available i should certainly think so i think yeah i think
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we're done here do you do you remember when phones used
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to have like limited number of phone numbers you could store on them and stuff oh yeah
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show call timers right right
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because we used to be so worried about how long we were spending on the phone
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because we only had a limited number of minutes that like it was important to have a timer
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oh man audible call timer so it would beep every minute so you'd know how many
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minutes you're using that is so awesome
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wow i just had like a like a flashback
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moment that was my ringtone like in high school you know
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ring or vibrate at least i had vibrate you couldn't take that for granted back
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then so that was nice when i'd get texts um
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in class or whatever
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i used this one at one point
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sorry i'm just like having fun right now i guess i could
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keep making a video hey oops that's menu crap
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hey sup
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thanks for
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helping
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it's a terrible keyboard thanks for helping me instead
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e call or something i don't know i mean i didn't really have a lot of functions
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i think the last thing to really show off for you guys
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has got to be games oh oh that's right hold on hold on
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there so that's your quick settings like all your quick stuff
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vibrate on and off oh my god this is so awesome
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internet you're right okay
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last thing then play some games towers of hanoi
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baccarat and bricks
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so i actually never really played um
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towers open away like like i know i know how the game works
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and then baccarat i didn't really understand the game at the time
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options bet on player bet on banker bet on tai
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and you just you put in like an amount
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and then you deal and then someone would win and then
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you would get or lose points
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so i didn't really like get it
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yeah we can end the game but bricks
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i played a lot
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and like the other games
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there wasn't really a great deal of depth to it
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like it's not like the ball starts to go faster
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or anything in fact if i recall correctly once you
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clear the bricks uh you just bounce the ball around in an
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empty thing but don't quote me on that let's we're just gonna have to see how
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this plays out i think like the funny thing is i could say to my kids with a
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straight face when i was a boy we only had one level
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and we were happy to have it and of course like the paddle does not
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like the the the spot on the paddle that you hit doesn't affect the angle the
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ball comes off it at so
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you just kind of have to
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i gotta go to wancho but instead i'm stuck here like
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oh oh oh
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no is it affected by how you're moving
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when it hits it is two there we go
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physics so you can spin it
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okay all right we got this we got this i can do it i can do it wait for it
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ah shoot that could have gotten it too
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okay
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did we get it yeah we got it score
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yes that's right so you could pause when
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it was clear and you could like
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take a breather and then continue later
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so that's it you guys that was my first phone the motorola v100 or vbox as it
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was called by my carrier here in canada um
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there were a lot of a lot of sacrifices
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there was not a lot of sex appeal but for better or for worse
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that got me through my high school social life
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