Tap to unmute

This Sony Ericsson is not a Smart Phone

Share
Embed
  • Published on Apr 18, 2026
  • I take on a Sony Ericsson K750i. The greatest phone of all time.
    Go on, Hack Me it said. Ok I replied. I've taken on your kind before.
    Please help support the channel with Memberships or SuperThanks on RUclips.
    Or Patreon: / januscycle
    bc1quvkrehl83amfs0w4w26x5ulj8rx7rmpeunkyr7
    For Inky, aged 17 years
    Video:
    Trailer Park Boys - I've Met Cats And Dogs Smarter Than Cory And Trevor
    Music:
    Bossa de Cores - 5711 & Farbrausch & Accession
    Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock
    Call For Blue by Bluebox Cinematique GmbH
    Scene Demos:
    Call For Blue by Bluebox Cinematique GmbH
    Wasted by Resident
    Images:
    / potato_camera
    Sascha Pohflepp - Sea of phones
    www.flickr.com...
    www.rawpixel.c...
    RIP SE-NSE Forums

Comments •

  • @MrSociofobs
    @MrSociofobs 2 years ago +598

    "It had no headphone jack, showing how far ahead of its time it was" lmao

    • @JanusCycle
      @JanusCycle  2 years ago +46

      :)

    • @ThePhobosAnomally
      @ThePhobosAnomally 2 years ago +34

      From what I remember the standard headphone jacks were not used in phones at that time. Every phone had some sort of custom made solution to which you connected your headphones. These phones normally had custom made connectors for the chargers to which you could also connect specific headphones. At the time appliances (and everything really) was not as efficient as today, but it was a happy time.

    • @Potatoleague-ux2zc
      @Potatoleague-ux2zc 2 years ago +10

      I hate the fact that when i changed my phone with one newer it doesn't have headphone jack and i have discovered today that Consequently because my phone doesn't have headphone jack it also doesn't have radio application which i dont use but i remembered that today using my phone

    • @Krizefugl
      @Krizefugl 2 years ago +7

      It had a propietary headphone connection. And it came with headphones in the box. Replacements were expensive though.

    • @MrSociofobs
      @MrSociofobs 2 years ago +7

      @ThePhobosAnomally True, only back then the manufacturers didn't intentionally remove a feature just so they can create an artificial problem and sell the "solution" in the form of overpriced earbuds. Still, those proprietary connectors were just as bad.

  • @ekner
    @ekner 2 years ago +484

    In Sweden these Sony Ericssons were everywhere. Kids around my age all used them instead of MP3 players. MMS using the built-in cameras led to spicy new ways of communicating. The smarter functions were quite well hidden, but googling facts about stuff was definitely possible, and I even found an instant messaging client that worked well with MSN messenger. We didn't have a lot, but it was fun to make the best of it anyways. Early days.

    • @Luczkizu
      @Luczkizu 2 years ago +35

      In Germany too, most had Sony Ericssons and Nokias.

    • @netako
      @netako 2 years ago +24

      Not just Sweden but Europe as well, it was easily one of the most common brands on the market before the iPhone showed up.

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 2 years ago +19

      Was data cheaper in Sweden? They were common in my school in the UK too but only 2 kids who shelled-out for contracts ever used 2G data. So most of the sharing of pics and vids was (painstakingly) via Bluetooth rather than MMS in my school.

    • @Matt.Willoughby
      @Matt.Willoughby 2 years ago +7

      @kaitlyn__L o2 did 500MB month for £7.50p in 2006/2007, that was plenty for a GPRS phone

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 2 years ago

      @Matt.Willoughby and I topped up £5 every few months. It wasn’t until 2009 or 2010 that you got free data for topping up £5 that I started using 2G and 3G.

  • @narcissisticnarcissus4956

    Yes, it is a smart phone. You even showed us the browser.

  • @kolkoki
    @kolkoki 2 years ago +805

    Something I miss from those times is hackability. Nowadays on android, rooting is super annoying, breaks many things and needs constant maintenance. Those kind of mainstream devices that would "just work" and be immediately hackable is lost through time.

    • @amy-377
      @amy-377 2 years ago +98

      Tbf a lot of android phones would just work if it wasn't for companies feeling like they needed to own your device, not the person who has just spent £100-£2000 on a shiny slab of glass that is needed just to eat in a restaurant nowadays.
      I use my phone with a custom ROM and root and have no issues, as I am with a decent bank (Monzo) and don't use any of the apps that feel like I shouldn't be allowed to use them like McDonald's, Starbucks, Netflix, or Paramount

    • @kolkoki
      @kolkoki 2 years ago +18

      @amy-377You're absolutely correct with your first sentence. Thats what i mean by my last sentence.

    • @FoxyDrew
      @FoxyDrew 2 years ago +62

      @amy-377 I don't know what's funnier. That McDonalds has root detection in their app, or that people care enough about the McDonalds app not to root for it xD

    • @vadnegru
      @vadnegru 2 years ago +9

      ​@amy-377are you using Google Pay, or your bank allows to pay from it? All that play integrity nonsense makes me look into going back to stock. In case of HyperOS that would mean forever locked bootloader, which i hate to do.

    • @Kx0195
      @Kx0195 2 years ago +14

      I miss the Nexus days.

  • @MrRavensFjord
    @MrRavensFjord 2 years ago +203

    Love this era of Sony phones, it just seemed like they were in a league of their own when it came to the feature phone market. Even now Sony is standing out, being the only manufacturer to keep the 3.5mm audio jack and SD card slot on their flagships.

    • @Matt.Willoughby
      @Matt.Willoughby 2 years ago +10

      This and the next iteration, k800i, were really great phones. It's when mobile phone cameras started getting serious.

    • @noth606
      @noth606 2 years ago +18

      Except it's not a Sony phone, it's a 'Sony Ericsson' with Sony being the silent partner. Sony had little to do with the UI and phone bit, they made the camera integration part largely. Family worked for them back then, still work in the biz but currently for Apple and Samsung unsurprisingly.
      Sony did do some stuff back then but only Japanese Domestic Market, all "Sony Ericsson" phones are really Ericsson with some Sony flavor to varying degree, like they did do parts of the PCB etc for the walkman branded stuff, as well as case design for some models. It was a strange hybrid company, "Sony Ericsson" was not a part of Sony, it was/is a separate entity with HQ in Stockholm Sweden for a time, later London if memory serves me, not sure now as I can't be bothered to look it up.
      Either way, calling it a Sony phone is the same as me calling you a banana. I doubt you're a banana any more than this phone is a Sony.

    • @MrRavensFjord
      @MrRavensFjord 2 years ago +3

      @noth606 I am a banana but you may call me dad

    • @kass1142
      @kass1142 2 years ago +1

      Also not even annoying punch holes or nocthes in the current Sony's flagship. 👍

    • @NomanJohan
      @NomanJohan 2 years ago +1

      Nokia was king

  • @explosivelybrilliant
    @explosivelybrilliant 2 years ago +281

    That dual microSD to Memory Stick RAID card is incredible. I mean, I know that RAID as a concept has existed for a very long time, but for some reason , in my head, consumer-level devices with RAID don't feel normal until like 2010+. And that was for PCs and the like! Seeing something like this for use with flash storage cards in that time frame is kind of blowing my mind a little 😅

    • @JanusCycle
      @JanusCycle  2 years ago +35

      I'm also still very impressed by the dual slot adapter. I wish there was more of this kind of stuff.

    • @connardman
      @connardman 2 years ago +22

      It worked very well with the PSP . 😄

    • @Wojt0n
      @Wojt0n 2 years ago +12

      @connardman Exactly, it was nearly as revolutionary for PSP users as SD2Vita adapter for PS Vita users. The downside of this solution, you can't read either of microSD's directly, you either have to use Memory Stick Pro Duo reader or connect PSP directly through USB to read/write data.

    • @fabrestervis
      @fabrestervis 2 years ago

      i was so happy when i found a working one on a fleamarket for my jailbroken psp 1k. finaly working 32gb for games :D there was even some space to put movies

    • @awesomeferret
      @awesomeferret 2 years ago +4

      I had one of those for my PSP. I had a 128 gig PSP around 2012 and it was very cool, but I never used more than 40 gigs of storage.

  • @jaymills1111
    @jaymills1111 2 years ago +49

    Was that a photo of your then kitten and now 17-18 year old cat? What a good kitty. Stood the test of time even better than the phone did!

    • @JanusCycle
      @JanusCycle  2 years ago +54

      She is now 17 years and a few months old. From kitten to distinguished older cat. Her name is Inky.

    • @sir-ani8927
      @sir-ani8927 Year ago +3

      ​@JanusCycle that's a very sweet name for a cat

  • @angeleocorrodead
    @angeleocorrodead 2 years ago +136

    This is a smartphone. Just without the touch screen

    • @straightwarlock5341
      @straightwarlock5341 Year ago +5

      Yeah, try using a browser or even email on this thing

    • @angeleocorrodead
      @angeleocorrodead Year ago

      @straightwarlock5341 i used it many times. You used joystick like a mouse.

    • @sargera1
      @sargera1 Year ago +6

      ​@straightwarlock5341back then this baby can whoop s40 Nokias no sweat cuz even on java their chips ain't slouch

    • @harythanossudibyo6993
      @harythanossudibyo6993 Year ago

      ​@straightwarlock5341capable.

    • @harythanossudibyo6993
      @harythanossudibyo6993 Year ago

      ​@straightwarlock5341you could.

  • @shanebaker1
    @shanebaker1 2 years ago +52

    as an aussie who’s lived in canada, janus x trailer park boys was incredibly unexpected but very welcome

  • @george_gav24
    @george_gav24 Year ago +5

    remember fondly in Venezuela in 2005 a friend showed me how she streamed live tv on that phone and to this date I cannot comprehend how that phone did that, truly ahead of its time

  • @sailaab
    @sailaab 2 years ago +7

    One of THE MOST wholesome mini documentaries on SE phones of the era.

  • @hp6r
    @hp6r 2 years ago +26

    The jump in camera quality between K700i to K750i was so gigantic that I think there's never happened again between two devices separated by one generation.

    • @meganium412
      @meganium412 2 years ago +2

      you should compare that with S700i, which was SE's flagship model in 2004

    • @hp6r
      @hp6r 2 years ago

      @meganium412 you are right, I totally forgot about S700i. It had a really good camera actually.

    • @highdefinitionstanleytm9614
      @highdefinitionstanleytm9614 Year ago +1

      The k800 was a huge jump to after that the gains were very very minimal.

  • @tomashubelbauer
    @tomashubelbauer 2 years ago +56

    SE modding. So happy you included this section in the video. It was so fun to do and see better and better tools being developed for it in real time in that era.

    • @JanusCycle
      @JanusCycle  2 years ago +6

      Yeah, it was a great time to be in. I will be doing more modding in the future.

    • @k11zdr
      @k11zdr 2 years ago +1

      ​@JanusCycle You can mention how the patches could be made or how to port one between platforms

  • @iamsreeram
    @iamsreeram 2 years ago +2

    My dad had this phone, got a lot of childhood memories back 😊. Here in India this phone was quite the luxury at that time

  • @707abhishek
    @707abhishek 2 years ago +4

    Bruh, my father had this phone and he lost it, to this day we reminisce about this phone.

  • @lensslayer.cr2
    @lensslayer.cr2 2 years ago +1

    That Koi Mil Gaya tune tho.. Jadoo's planet's disco..

  • @brz_be
    @brz_be 2 years ago +142

    Around 2006 - 2009 i used a SE z710i. The OS looks very similar to the one on this model. Opera mini was a great addition and allowed you to browse the web comfortably. Even RUclips worked since they used to serve 3gp versions of the videos back then. The OS was super snappy and stable

    • @vadnegru
      @vadnegru 2 years ago

      Using opera mini mod you had ability to download by pressing button 1. Or i used some website like ssyoutube, I don't remember.

    • @sargera1
      @sargera1 Year ago +1

      Coz they got 2x ram.whatever typical s40 Nokia churning out.plus they got better standardization on screen reso in mid tier java ones

  • @skanowais
    @skanowais 2 years ago +8

    Damn i feel old

  • @stangadoboaradreaptaomoara9567

    I was honestly surprised by those pictures. I didn't expect that much quality from a phone camera that old.

  • @goiterlanternbase
    @goiterlanternbase 2 years ago +3

    Listening to a phone speaker, through a phone speaker, is such a pain🤣

  • @OFFICIAL-H-RUBBER
    @OFFICIAL-H-RUBBER Year ago +1

    "points at the TV with k810i"
    Oh the nostalgia!

  • @drbrezo53
    @drbrezo53 2 years ago +17

    God the J-Roc tune from Trailer Park Boys really took me back

  • @crimester
    @crimester Year ago +1

    0:31 that failed slide lol

  • @Toreonify
    @Toreonify 2 years ago +17

    I'm glad someone finally mentioned ELFs and patches for Sony Ericsson phones! My K530i was flashed to a W660i, had custom fonts, icons, a home screen with "now playing" widget (with active controls), a HTC Sense clock (with animations!) and a dock-like launcher for apps. It was a beast. I've played original DOOM on it without any problems. Remapping hardware keys was awesome, because I mapped the camera button to lock the keyboard and disabled "press unlock then *" message.

  • @RealMacJones
    @RealMacJones 2 years ago +1

    The quality of that camera is actually really surprising

  • @upsidedowngarlicbread
    @upsidedowngarlicbread 2 years ago +10

    So nostalgic, I remember liking lots of SE phones back in the day and this is one of them

  • @marzuqahmed218
    @marzuqahmed218 10 months ago +2

    8:05 Remember playing that game on my grandpa's old sony Ericson. Thanks for unlocking old memories.

  • @VaporOne1
    @VaporOne1 2 years ago +76

    I had a W810i. Still have it in one of my drawers somewhere. One of my favorite phones I ever owned. The headphone cord that came with it was detachable in the middle to reveal a 3.5mm audio jack! It was amazing, iPods weren't a thing where I grew up so this phone was my first on the go music machine. So many good memories.

    • @JanusCycle
      @JanusCycle  2 years ago +8

      I also appreciate the W810, which I would like to see appear in a video one day.

    • @datsat
      @datsat 2 years ago

      I had Skype and Google Maps on mine. A true smart phone at that time! Everyone was amazed!

    • @Gordon.Pinkerton
      @Gordon.Pinkerton 2 years ago

      Of all the phones I've had, this was one of my favourites.
      Also had the sliding w580i as well, which was great.
      Absolutely loved those Walkman phones.

    • @asyungoated
      @asyungoated 2 years ago

      I had a W580i in gray - blue. Was the best phone i ever owned. The sound quality, even with MP3 files was unmatched at the time. Still holds up today. Amazing device that was way ahead of it's time@Gordon.Pinkerton

    • @longi625
      @longi625 Year ago

      I still have mine too. In fact I've just bought another battery for it!

  • @puglapapa
    @puglapapa 2 years ago +1

    The Walkman phone is a classic legend.

  • @magnusboman1576
    @magnusboman1576 2 years ago +6

    I had this phone back in the day, a friend of mine had flashed the firmware for me and it was truly a beast!

  • @Gordon.Pinkerton
    @Gordon.Pinkerton 2 years ago +2

    4:18 back when WAP had an entirely different meaning

  • @TheBasementChannel
    @TheBasementChannel 2 years ago +26

    Great vid. There’s a whole scene that was quickly overshadowed by the iPhone generation, and it’s rapidly being forgotten. I’m glad you make these kind of videos.

    • @GeoNeilUK
      @GeoNeilUK 2 years ago +2

      And the thing is, the iPhone was a basic phone compared to what came before it. The one thing Apple did get right was the interface though. That interface made all of the advanced clever things your old phone could do much more accessible (when they were there)
      The Register didn't call it the Jesus Phone for nothing. It had so much hype and such a fandom among people who didn't know what their old phone could do, but it took a while to catch on among those who knew the score and knew Android came out already far ahead feature wise!

  • @nikolaygruncharov7283

    I had w800 patched and hacked af ... Custom acoustic drivers, custom camera driver, etc. You just unlocked bunch of sweet memories.

  • @confusinggameplays1687
    @confusinggameplays1687 2 years ago +66

    Your videos have so much personality, the thumbnail, the documentary type voice, the devices shown, everything is just a compliment to each other. LOVE IT!

    • @JanusCycle
      @JanusCycle  2 years ago +11

      Awesome to hear that, thank you! I often think I make weird videos, but I'm glad they come together.

    • @paralelmind
      @paralelmind 2 years ago +1

      +1
      Complete relaxation and travel thru time.
      Nostalgia at its finest
      Thanks @JanusCycle!

  • @SoloWolf1792
    @SoloWolf1792 2 years ago +1

    I miss those days when phones with potato cameras were still innovative

  • @Sithhy
    @Sithhy 2 years ago +67

    Phones from this era give me always a nice feeling when I see them. I was in late elementary school at the point when they were popular so half of my class mates had Sony Ericsson's while the other half had Nokia's; cannot forgot the "wars" between those two brands which always were fun. I remember how me & my friends used to talk a lot about what the phones are capable of, what stuff you can load onto them, what software you can flash etc. One of my friends has gotten the K750i & we thought that was one of the best phones of all time...
    Good times

    • @OHHHHUSBANT
      @OHHHHUSBANT Year ago

      Now its iphones and the various android companies now

  • @acalthu
    @acalthu Year ago +2

    I had one of these in 2006. I hacked it so much, completely changed the UI, and added all the W800 related music enhancements. Esato was the forum I lurked in back then.

  • @CyclingSteve
    @CyclingSteve 2 years ago +17

    I loved my K800i back in the day, with a J2ME Gmail client towards the end, I only stopped using it when the camera sensor decided to self destruct.

  • @ZhoRZh37
    @ZhoRZh37 Year ago +1

    I want a smartphone so small that makes me wonder why I carry today's smartphone.

  • @oil_moon
    @oil_moon 2 years ago +32

    Some of the pictures I took on that camera back in my teenage years look better than anything I've ever taken on a modern smartphone.

    • @m3gAnac0nda
      @m3gAnac0nda 2 years ago +1

      Oh god, please. Too much

    • @Puzomor
      @Puzomor 2 years ago +1

      Modern phones rely more and more on smart postprocessing to increase capabilities in certain situations. This means that older phones are very consistent in how photos look in good conditions (well lit outdoors scenes).
      Modern phones use all kinds of noise reductions and sharpenings which (ironically) eliminate detail from images by misdetecting fine high frequency detail for noise, and ruining edges by over-sharpening everything in order to fake a well-focused image.

  • @PaoloTucilio
    @PaoloTucilio 2 years ago +2

    Sony Ericsson modding will rise again
    Godspeed

  • @er-uk
    @er-uk 2 years ago +3

    I miss mine, I wish I never sold it. I don’t miss that proprietary junk connector though

  • @MuscarV2
    @MuscarV2 Year ago +1

    That speaker surprised me, way better than expected! So both the camera and the speaker were not only usable, but even enjoyable. Really cool!

  • @ChainShinra
    @ChainShinra 2 years ago +13

    Generally, the SE phones were some of the very best ever made. I had quite a few, and kind of worked myself up to the top of the line being the P-series. Really miss those times. Doubt we'll ever see something like that again though. Guess we can be glad to have witnessed such times. Because many never will.

  • @raffaeleguido2828
    @raffaeleguido2828 2 years ago +1

    What a neet era for technologies

  • @DavidRichUK
    @DavidRichUK 2 years ago +8

    Huge Sony Ericsson fan in the day. Still have plenty in my old collection. Many hours spent flashing unlocking and generally taking great photos.

  • @south70ful
    @south70ful 2 years ago +1

    Speakers on this phone was amazing back in the day

  • @noname1210hh
    @noname1210hh 2 years ago +4

    i used to have the k610i and it was one of my favorite phones ive ever had, i had a few of them one still works and gets service

  • @STR82DVD
    @STR82DVD Year ago +1

    That is a damn good-looking Tempest.

  • @jayforkay
    @jayforkay 2 years ago +5

    I used my W800 like forever back then. It was such a great phone. Really nice reminder to the good old times!

  • @k1773ns
    @k1773ns 2 years ago +1

    OK the cam quality is actually quite nice

  • @scotshabalam2432
    @scotshabalam2432 2 years ago +3

    Smart Phones are re-branded micro-PCs and I hate the form factor they need to make that possible which is too small to be a PC and too big to be a phone. I miss having a tiny phone that's just a phone in my pocket.

  • @SpacedAug
    @SpacedAug Year ago +1

    As a Canadian, I feel seen and acknowledged for your choice of trailer park boys.
    Well done.

  • @niceguyjoe
    @niceguyjoe 2 years ago +63

    I loved my K750i. Awesome camera, amazing mp3 player. I was listening to podcast, rocking my full music collection and taking great photos. The physical buttons for play / pause and volume as well as the satisfying clunk of opening the camera made this phone a joy.

    • @vadnegru
      @vadnegru 2 years ago +2

      I only recently could change tracks by volume buttons. I missed this feature since k550i.

  • @mdimransarkar1103
    @mdimransarkar1103 2 years ago +1

    now that i have studied compiter science i really appreciate old phones like this!

  • @RingwayManchester
    @RingwayManchester 2 years ago +3

    Another brilliant video thanks

  • @rowaystarco
    @rowaystarco 2 years ago +1

    I now actually recall "hacking" my k750i with the walkman software.

  • @TPD
    @TPD 2 years ago +13

    such a brilliant phone. i remember turning all the EQ channels up which pretty much doubled the volume from the speaker

    • @avamnepohui7260
      @avamnepohui7260 2 years ago +5

      The equalizer increased the volume, but this was not the maximum that this phone could do. If you wanted more volume, you had to set the song to the ringtone and listen to it through the menu in the settings, where the ringtone volume is adjusted. This was the maximum that the phone could produce just like that, but if you wanted it even louder, you had to patch the sound driver. After that, the phone began to get very hot in the place where the speaker is located, discharged in 20 minutes, but played music so loudly that my ears began to hurt.

    • @KouRou2002
      @KouRou2002 2 years ago

      I had the official Sony speakers they were pretty loud but would kill your battery. I would always carry one or two spare batteries with me. Lots of fun times back in the day. This was before everyone had Bluetooth speakers so it was pretty cool.

    • @KouRou2002
      @KouRou2002 2 years ago

      @avamnepohui7260that’s a cool idea..

  • @MethmalDhananjaya
    @MethmalDhananjaya 2 years ago +1

    Remember back when SE was the biggest competitor with Nokia.

  • @PDRIFT86
    @PDRIFT86 2 years ago +4

    I had the W800 and i loved it. I had hundreds of mp3s and many full length movies that i converted for it on the memory stick. Sadly the joystick stopped working and i tried to replace it but it didn't work again. I think i paid 3 or 4 hundred dollars for it. I miss that phone.

  • @CosmosProvider
    @CosmosProvider Year ago +1

    I had one of these and it's the closest i felt to what people feel nowadays when they recieve their pre-order of the latest iphone. Except with this device, the feeling lasted for years.
    The shitty (but amazing at the time) camera, the fact that i could plug it to my computer and install custom apks, the configurability.
    It truly was a brilliant and thrilling phone that stayed relevant for a looong time.
    Thanks for the memory lane trip.

  • @KotiChennayya
    @KotiChennayya 2 years ago +6

    1:00 that cat is still alive now ?

  • @Mi3kka
    @Mi3kka 2 years ago +1

    Ah my junior high school phone. Still have mine somewhere.

  • @Hezy
    @Hezy 2 years ago +3

    5:10 Trailer Park Boys is incredible

  • @MrMegaManFan
    @MrMegaManFan 2 years ago +1

    Everybody just rock it, don't stop it
    Gotta rock it, don't stop

  • @ВикторШишков

    My favorite dumb phone as well. Had it for 6 years as a daily driver. Installed multiple camera drivers in an attempt to sqeeze the last bit of quality from the sensor and it held up to many phones released later. For the forums, use the wayback machine and see if its already a discussed problem.

  • @UrFavDudeOnUtube
    @UrFavDudeOnUtube Year ago +1

    i remember buying a W800 when it first came out. We had a school trip coming up that year and i was the most popular kid in school, playing songs with my phone with great speakers for its time and unless you were rich to be able to afford any Nokia N models, your phone would've only had VGA camera at best, so i was also the dedicated photographer for that trip. this video really brought back so many good memories for me. Thank you, i need this.

  • @RealNovgorod
    @RealNovgorod 2 years ago +4

    Man, those were the times, I remember the firmware upgrade to a W800 and I could put my entire mp3 collection on that thing back then. I got a used one for cheap with a broken camera, but I killed it by taking it for a swim in the ocean. The W910 (with the sliding screen) was its spiritual successor - the smallest phone we'll probably ever have (other than those purpose-made for a prison wallet). But by that time Sony started screwing people over with planned obsolescence where the sliding cable was intentionally designed to crack after 6-12 months and you'll gradually lose buttons and screen functionality. A replacement cable was only 3 bucks on ebay but it was always a big hassle to change every year like an oil filter (still a breeze compared to what we have to put up with now just to access some internal component).
    Other than that, it was such a great phone that I kept using it for 8 years until I replaced it with a Galaxy S7 in 2016. Mobile internet wasn't much of a thing until then (too slow, unreliable and too expensive rates) and for everything else the phone was just perfect. It was truly the last ever Sony product worth spending money on before the comany died.

  • @FrankBlack64
    @FrankBlack64 2 years ago +1

    The K800 was even better, on looks and on features, I loved how that phone looked

  • @TradieTrev
    @TradieTrev 2 years ago +7

    You've got a very calm voice mate! Always love it when you get the soldering iron out!

    • @JanusCycle
      @JanusCycle  2 years ago +1

      Thanks! I enjoy soldering and always wishing I had more time to make stuff.

  • @JohnCritical2000
    @JohnCritical2000 2 years ago +1

    Vintage Camera phones

  • @mesicek7
    @mesicek7 2 years ago +11

    4:47 we had a mobile tv package with 7 channels that came out in late 2006. Worked via umts and the pic quality for it's time was pretty decent on my Nokia n70.

  • @cemakyuz9257
    @cemakyuz9257 2 years ago +1

    It has astonishing sound quality with its original earphones. I still miss this phone. Feeling nostalgic, young and happy times 🥹

  • @drPeidos
    @drPeidos 2 years ago +1

    Best phone I used for a long long time. I miss this simpler phones.

  • @GreggoryRainman
    @GreggoryRainman 2 years ago +6

    Oh wow! I didn't expect to see a K750! It made me smile when you said it was the best phone you ever had, I kept saying the same thing back then too. Joystick on mine died at the end but I had all the shortcuts I needed memorized which made getting into desired menus was very fast and easy. Nothing but good memories with that phone!

    • @JanusCycle
      @JanusCycle  2 years ago +1

      It's really good to hear from other K750 fans. This phone was just so amazing back then.

  • @woyttas
    @woyttas 2 years ago +1

    I remember owning K750i, W810i and K850i afterwards. Such brilliant phones, especially when modded.

  • @MoroccanAnwar
    @MoroccanAnwar 2 years ago +8

    😮 I had the k750 the 800 and the w810 best era of phones Eva! I used to listen to the same music as I was heavily into breakdancing (bboying) this video was a good reminder of those good times. I remember recommending it to my friend who died of cancer last year. I still have so many great pictures we got from these phones. One was when we climbed on top of a mini street sweeper van in a busy oxford street and smoking a cigarette while people waved and laughed at what we were doing. I also remember meeting the time I bricked the phone after I just got the number of the girl I ended up marrying and trying to contact sony to help me get the number out because flashing it would make me lose it. I went to the same place for weeks until I saw her again 😅 we literally got married a few months later. 🎉 Man this phone brings too many memories the more I think about it the more crazy stories come to mind. Thank you for this video

    • @JanusCycle
      @JanusCycle  2 years ago +2

      I really enjoyed this story, thank you.

  • @motionoftheocean7524
    @motionoftheocean7524 2 years ago +1

    Everybody would ask me what phone I was using back then when I had the S700i.. I still miss that one.

  • @caviar_dreamz
    @caviar_dreamz 2 years ago +3

    I still remember seeing this phone on G4! The reviewers were comparing it to the Blackberry and I remember the camera being a stand out in their reviews. I wanted one, but I was really young at the time so my parents wouldn't buy me it.

  • @devinaanindita8742
    @devinaanindita8742 Year ago +1

    My phone during high school. Love them.

  • @LightTheUnicorn
    @LightTheUnicorn 2 years ago +28

    I had the previous model, the K700! I remember a friend of mine having a black K750i too, and it really was a wonderful phone, it took for the time genuinely excellent pictures! That same friend later got a K850i and, gosh, that thing was a monster of a non-smartphone. Sony Ericsson made some really wonderful stuff over the years.

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 2 years ago +1

      My brother had the 850, I had the 580. I remember being jealous of that huge light-up Walkman button lmao (and the built in speaker!)

    • @njj13412
      @njj13412 2 years ago

      My first ‘smart’ phone was k700! Ahh good old times, still remember everything about it

  • @Wfmike
    @Wfmike 2 years ago +1

    This and the Nokia n73 were really the pinnicle of feature phones

  • @_____7704
    @_____7704 2 years ago +3

    I love this channel - Premium RUclips content. Appreciation and greetings from Radelaide!

    • @JanusCycle
      @JanusCycle  2 years ago +1

      Rock on Radelaide!

    • @_____7704
      @_____7704 2 years ago

      @JanusCycle Home of churches, serial killers and Villi's pies!

    • @JanusCycle
      @JanusCycle  2 years ago +1

      I kinda want to stay low key on this RUclips. But you deserve to know that I live in Adelaide too!

    • @_____7704
      @_____7704 2 years ago +1

      @JanusCycle Your *CORRECT* pronunciation of "dance", "chance" and "demand" has been a give away.

    • @JanusCycle
      @JanusCycle  2 years ago

      @_____7704 I was wondering when my accent would get noticed. Well, hi, good to meet you. Mad March ending soon.

  • @tydshiin5783
    @tydshiin5783 2 years ago +1

    Shit man, was not expecting to see the Ericsson logo in this day and age

  • @EvanderFdes
    @EvanderFdes 2 years ago +3

    Thanks for bringing back so many memories of my childhood with this video. I used to mess around with my sister's W660i and my dad's K810i, adding those themes, patches and elfs. It was so cool to run those custom patches. One day I messed up the flash so bad that it corrupted the W660i's firmware and my sister lost some really important data 😅. I also remember helping a friend to cross flash the K810's firmware on the K800i. I think SE-NSE and TOP-SE were the main forums that I used to visit.

    • @JanusCycle
      @JanusCycle  2 years ago +1

      Great to hear from someone who also enjoyed the modding scene back then :)

  • @Aysentaro
    @Aysentaro 2 years ago +1

    good old times

  • @static-san
    @static-san 2 years ago +9

    I didn't have a K750 but I had a contemporary model. Sony Ericsson phones of that time were amazingly powerful. They also had a very powerful Bluetooth stack, something Android wouldn't get for many years. I would use BT to mount the phone as a file system to get files on and off it. Also used it to dialup to work from my laptop, similar to how you'd hotspot with a phone today.

    • @inagy86
      @inagy86 Year ago

      I think my friend at the uni had a K800i at that time. We were playing some kind of Bluetooth J2ME multiplayer game between the phones. That was a very interesting sight back then. :)

  • @MadTapeGaming
    @MadTapeGaming 2 years ago +1

    i still have this phone and it still works perfect after all these years

  • @Ice_Karma
    @Ice_Karma 2 years ago +19

    Ahhhh, the days of WAP and J2ME. The only time I haven't _completely_ hated working with Java was doing J2ME stuff, for the simple reason that Sun couldn't screw up the implementation of features they simply didn't include! 🤣

    • @cocus-ar
      @cocus-ar 2 years ago +5

      I'm not a Java programmer, but when I had the w580, I tried to do a simple file browser and debug the j2me app on the phone, and although slow, I was able to do so! It was almost magical for me at the time. Not sure if this was the same experience for other phones.

  • @Maximilian1990
    @Maximilian1990 2 years ago +1

    I remember playing that tennis game, that airplane game, and that platformer game on my friend's phone throughout the entirety of my high school senior year. This thing was so groundbreaking for it's time

  • @Sb129
    @Sb129 2 years ago +12

    The Sony Ericsson phones always seemed cool from like 2001~2006ish. For me the first I had heard of them was getting a network connection of a Palm. Sony Ericssons were usually not super locked down like most phones were. I am sure you remember how much Bluetooth was disabled and hampered on US cellular networks at that time.
    Well the Ericsson usually had all its BT profiles and some models had something much much more rare. An IrDA port! It was possible to connect to a network with a Palm over infrared through certain Sony Ericsson phones. I knew a foreign exchange student in HS that was from Japan and he had a Sony Ericsson, it also had the IrDA port. I couldn't establish a network connection but I could see that both devices could see each other it was really cool. I also got another chance when my Aunt got a model with that port as well.
    I always thought the games for regular phones were interesting but since I have had a Palm long before I had a cellular of my very own, I was always more interested in Palm games and software. I am definitely familiar 'hacking' the firmware of a diverse set of devices though. I have done so with my iPod, Sandisk Sansa MP3 player, HTC HD2 (a classic btw) and my PSP (I had to hard mod my battery to make my own tool battery back in the beginning and I had to go to Staples to make my Magic Memory Stick cuz I didn't have a MS reader at home). I have also seen may old articles and knowledge of hacking old stuff to be gone mostly. Even on XDA there are many dead links on old stuff. Fortunately I am a bit of a data hoarder and I've pretty much kept 80~90% of everything I have ever downloaded.
    By 2006~7 the cell phone market had so many interesting models from every sort of manufacturer that Sony's Ericsson didn't really stand out like it once did. A darn shame to be sure.
    On the subject of streaming over 2G, I have done such before, many times. It was on my iPhone 3G funny enough but since I wasn't on AT&T I didn't get 3G so I settled for 2G and I streamed internet radio stations (AnimeNFO, Yggdrasil, some other JPOP stations~) In general I got good enough quality. Have you ever listened to a strong AM station? The fidelity was close to that on 2G, Lol~!

    • @ValdeliceSantos-s1w
      @ValdeliceSantos-s1w Month ago

      Vc poderia disponibilizar todas essas informações e arquivos que vc salvou, seria muito bom para preservar a história dos dispositivos móveis que infelizmente vem se apagando, faz um upload no Mediafire ou no Google Drive e compartilha tudo, ficarei muito grato

  • @gabrielleraul
    @gabrielleraul 2 years ago +1

    My second phone, never realized it was that tiny, such a fantastic phone ..

  • @swapnildarakhe9857
    @swapnildarakhe9857 2 years ago +4

    I like the way you bring these old devices into the modern world.
    It makes me realise how far technology has came.
    Nowadays I can't wait even for a second for buffering while earlier had these kind of phones where screen refresh rate can actually be seen by eyes 😂.

    • @JanusCycle
      @JanusCycle  2 years ago +2

      I'm really glad you are enjoying watching because I'm really enjoying making these videos :)

  • @_hanz73
    @_hanz73 2 years ago +1

    Dudeee I used to play that Racing pro contest game on my mom's phone when I was a child,,, Ohhh man the nostalgia!!

  • @danielckw0206
    @danielckw0206 2 years ago +14

    OP should recreate THE SE-NSE forum 💀
    👇🏻

  • @CameronDuncanFlanagan
    @CameronDuncanFlanagan 2 years ago +1

    yooo trailer park boys on a Sony Ericsson!

  • @GASQBDUV
    @GASQBDUV 2 years ago +7

    I used the J2ME version of the Opera Browser all the time way back on long busrides. If i remember right thebrowser filtered everything trough a proxy, so the slow GPRS speed wasn´t really a issue then. I also used to read a ton of books on the tiny display.

  • @STORY_TO_TELL_44
    @STORY_TO_TELL_44 2 years ago +1

    The good old days 😢😢

  • @SlimJim3082
    @SlimJim3082 2 years ago +4

    Sometimes I cry when I see these Sony Ericsson phones.
    I had the z200, S200, k700, w705, w710 amd at last the j20 ..

    • @JanusCycle
      @JanusCycle  2 years ago

      Very nice sequence of phones you had there :)

    • @arx117
      @arx117 2 years ago

      Except propriety charger port and M2. Sony erricson knew how to make not just affordable but also great one. Since Sony bought errricson mobile in 2012, Sony became less and less in term of quality, update and with less country they selling today, it became premium product with not so good camera

  • @erlienfrommars
    @erlienfrommars 2 years ago +1

    This phone was the Legend, incredible camera, audio player and batterylife on a phone that would fit in anyone's pocket.