Native Union Pop Phone "Moshi Moshi" Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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This is the Moshi Moshi. It is compatible with the iPhone
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and iPad. It is also compatible with any tablet or phone. Basically, it says
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handset compatible with all devices with a star. So any device that is that
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supports both a headphone and a mic from the one port will be supported by the
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Moshimoshi. Comes with details in
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French, Spanish, German, whatever that is, whatever that is, and Italian and
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English. Here we go. Improved call comfort. Allows access to phone
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functions when making calls. This is all true. Eliminates over 99% of absorbed
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phone radiation. Star star something something report available upon request.
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Okay. Turns your tablet computer into a telephone via Skype or VoIP
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applications. This is also true. Okay. Has a noise reduction system. Pick up
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and hang up button supplied with a 3 and 12 mm plug. Works with all mobile
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devices. Adapters available as accessories. Works with all computers. USB adapter and splitter cable available
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as accessories. And it has a luxurious soft touch paint treatment and high
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quality speaker and microphone. Now,
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okay. As a bit of a skeptic, I originally looked at this and
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I went, why? Really, why? That's what I said.
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But I thought about it for a little while longer and I figured it out. So,
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at a reasonable enough price point, all of a sudden, this isn't the
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kind of thing I would buy for myself. Don't get me wrong, I would not buy this
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for myself, but I might buy one as a stocking stuffer.
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Let's say you've got a a little niece. Let's say she's, you know, 12 or 13, 14,
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15, 16, until, I don't know, the end of time, whenever girls stop yaking on the
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phone. Um, and she talks on the phone a lot.
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Well, it used to be that as soon as you hit around 11 or 12 as a girl, you got a
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you got a phone in your room and you tied up the line endlessly and everyone
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got annoyed. Well, now 12-year-olds are getting cell phones. I mean, this I
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don't know if you've ever like sat and talked on an iPhone for an hour. I have.
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Your ear like hurts after. It's not comfortable. So, that's what this is
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for. This is the replacement for adding the phone in the
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room. This isn't the kind of thing you carry around with you. That would be
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ridiculous. But what you do is you use
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it like like I actually had a phone that had a receiver like this when I when I
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was young. And I'm probably the last generation that will actually remember phones that looked like this. But but
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this this is what it's all about. So you plug that in there. Your phone sits on
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the bed next to you and you like, you know, you sit and gab and you know touch
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your ankles together with your girlfriends. You you can actually hold
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it like this. Remember when you could hold a phone with your shoulder and you
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could you could do something else like unbox the black version while you're
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actually talking on the phone to somebody and Yeah. Remember what she
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said? I remember what she said. Do you remember what he said when she said
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that? Yeah, I remember that. So, you can actually have your senseless,
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meaningless conversation while you're doing something meaningful like unboxing
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another color of exactly the same product in the same episode of Linus
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Tech Tips for the sake
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of completeness. In fact, you can even
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talk on two phones. No, you can't talk on two phones at once, but that's what
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it's for. Okay, here's the button for the hangup. and uh and pick up. Okay.
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It's got kind of a Native Union logo on there. It's got like a like well they
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were quite what do they describe it as? Um luxurious soft touch paint finish. So
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I would describe that as as a matte fingerprint resistant finish. It's also
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going to be quite scratch resistant. So I mean think about how something like
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this is going to get treated. You know you're talking on the phone on it.
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You're you're done. You unplug it. You know you check it over on the nightstand
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or whatever the case may be. That's how something like this is going to get treated by the intended audience. Let's
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have a look at what the actual range of it is. So, if I could actually just get
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my cameraman to take one of his hands and hold that. I'm just going to kind of
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wander over here and I'm going to show you guys. Oh, it's actually very
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flexible. So, yeah. Actually, you know what? I'm going to tell you guys a funny
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little anecdote. It's not really to do with this. I'm pretty much done my unboxing now. This is the Native Union
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Moshi Moshi. Comes with a couple stickers. Comes with a little
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instruction manual, which I certainly hope you won't need. But here here's
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kind of a funny anecdote along the lines of remember when phones looked like
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this. So my little brother had a friend come over to my parents house. Uh this
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must have been about six months ago. And uh he asked to use the phone and my
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parents are kind of leites. They don't they don't have technology. I mean I
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have to I have to spell everything out for them. They wouldn't even have a wireless network if I didn't set it up
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and maintain it for them and key in all the passwords. Like they're just they're
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hopeless. Anyway, so his friend comes
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from a family that, you know, believes in technology. Like, they don't even have call waiting. Like, they don't have
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caller ID. They have nothing. They have a phone line. And I'm just
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like, it took my mom until about 3 months ago to get a cell phone. Nobody
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in my house had a cell phone. It's like and and like they they'd leave the phone
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off the hook. Oh, yeah. I'll go get that person for you. They'd forget and walk away. And the phone would be busy for
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like 2 days at a time. And I'm just like, I've been trying to call you for 2
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days. How am I supposed to reach you anyway? All right. totally unrelated,
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tangential. So his friend comes over and asks to use the phone and my mom says to
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him, "Yeah, sure. It's over there." And he goes over and uh he so he so he picks
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up the phone. This is not not like this kind of phone, but it's an actual phone
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like with a receiver. He picks it up and he he calls his parents. He asks if he can stay the night and he puts it back
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and he goes and he turns to my mom and he says,
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"Wow, that's so smart. your phone is
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actually attached to the base station so you don't lose
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it. And my mom just looks at him and goes, "Yeah, that's a feature." All
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right. Anyway, thank you for watching this episode of Linus Tech. True story,
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