2001 Tracfone Nokia 252C analog cell phone unboxing & ringtones
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- Unboxing a new, unused TracFone Nokia 252C from 2001. Unfortunately since it is an analog model there's not much I can do with it except play the classic Nokia ringtones, except if I had a Tektronix CMD80 to test it with: • Tektronix CMD80 demons...
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In 2040 we will see a video about unboxing & review for the new and unused 2021 Samsung Galaxy but it's limited to 5G, the Android OS is way out of date and there is not much to do.
Don't forget, Google Play and the Samsung stores will be shut down, replaced by the One Company, Amazon.
Its battery will become a blob and will damage the phone from inside.
Ah, yes, the good old days when everyone had their own PROPRIETARY charger. Anyone remember those Radio Shack chargers with a dozen different tips, or the hoops you had to jump through to transfer your complete contact list to a new phone?
But it's not really proprietary -- it's just a standard barrel plug.
Transferring contacts were easier on GSM phones at least. You would just copy all your contacts to your sim card and put it in your new phone.
proprietary data cable is the worse is the Nokia pop-port and the sony ericsson connector thing, i swear those things never like to stay put
200709 well now all you do is login to your email and everything syncs
And Radio Shack still seems to sell those changeble tip chargers.
I had that phone bought it in 2001, got it at Radio Shack when I worked there. Every time you sold a Tracfone you got a code for I think 10 minutes, so I never paid for minutes if I kept selling them. It worked fine. I think they sold it for $49.
i remember those ringtones it bought back memories
Amazing that a 20 year old NiMH battery still takes a charge. I have five year old Galaxy's with dead batteries after sitting in a drawer. Great trip down memory lane.
Ni-MH batteries do not degrade over time like Li-ion, not to the same extent anyway.
@@AaronSmart.online Not strictly true, its normally the BMS that kills a Lithium battery. if you was to remove the BMS and try to charge the battery a lot of them would come alive again
@@w19ely85 I'm not talking about being outright "dead" - Li-ion batteries generally degrade in that they lose capacity over time, even if they are not being used. Newer chemistries may be better in this respect, but Ni-MH batteries don't really exhibit this problem (I mean capacity loss, not self-discharge).
Even if it were bad, 3.6V NiMH in that form factor leads me to believe that if you were to take it apart, there would be three AAA cells inside wired in series that can be replaced.
I’m not to surprise the battery is still good I have a old dust buster from the 80s that still holds a change and the battery is 30 years old
The car in question is a Mazda Millenia.
Come to the comments for this, thanks.
Aka Xedos 9 in Europe.
Beautiful car. I owned a top of the line 626 ES V6 at the time, I’d have loved to have a Millenia, but- no manual transmission was available.
@@BeefyMon I used to own a 1998 Mazda Millenia S. It was a very good car overall, and fun to drive. I loved the supercharged Miller cycle engine.
Pretty cool car I must say!
The reason they put a picture of dark glasses on their brochures is because they’re trying to show how cool their products are. And for 2001/2, they were!
It was worth it even just to hear those old ring tones again! Ah I wish I could go back to the simpler times.
"Including Woodgrain"
*LGR INTENSIFIES*
XD
My very first phone was a Nokia 5210 Tracfone; bought it while working in the electronics department at WalMart in 2002!
This video brought back some memories. This was the first cell phone my parents had, and I remember they had it for a few years before they were forced into upgrading to a newer Nokia model (IIRC Tracfone sent them a new phone.) I remember the ringtone featured at the beginning of the video very well. I believe my grandparents had the same phone, also on Tracfone. My dad finally switched from Tracfone to AT&T Prepaid a couple years back when he cut the cord on having a landline phone.
My mom had the "woodgrain" one. It was actually more like tortoiseshell.
This had to be her first small cell phone. Her previous one was a Oki-Data one that still had to be carried around in bag (!).
Clint fro LGR would be jealous.☺️😄
People only think of Nokia now, but back then, there was such a huge variety of brands and models that you could have a bus packed standing room only and no two people would have the same cell phone. Also, pretty much all cell phones back then were indestructible. I had a hand-me-down Ericsson A1228d that survived getting run over by a car lol. Thankfully it turned out that cell phones don't cause brain tumours, otherwise most of us would be in trouble!
There were lots more models, but I'm not sure about manufacturers. We had Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola, Alcatel, Samsung and Siemens, all still exist in one form or another.
@@MicroChirp Panasonic, Sony, NEC, Mitsubishi, Sagem, probably a few others I've forgotten too...
@@AaronSmart.online Sagem, now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I'm sure the American market had heaps more phone brands.
I remember a time around 20 years ago when in the UK pretty much everyone had a Nokia because they were easily available and they all used the sodding “Kick” ringtone. Luckily the colour ones with polyphonic tones came out shortly afterwards and we had the Mexican Hat Dance instead 🙂
12:34 Interior is from a Mazda Millenia.
8:47 - I used to HATE the people who had this as their ringtone. It was usually a bloke, and he had it on super loud, and he would take FOREVER to find and answer the damn phone!
Fluteboy lol I hated it too... mostly because you had about ten people rushing to their coats to answer... thus ignoring you or pushing you out of the way
The antenna on that phone is actually functional.
I sold a lot of those at my old Celluar Phone Store "Mr. Cellular". Those were great phones!
Those final thrift store purchases before the shutdown! Thrifting is the one thing I'm already missing. Congrats on hitting 100K subs!
6:36 The display being segmented reminds me of the Motorola F3… which ended up being my first introduction to e-paper before I discovered that e-paper pixel displays existed and not just segmented ones.
Congrats on hitting 100 THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS ! ! i always look forward to your posts.
Thanks for posting this. Bring back memories of old days
Really love your videos, ohh and btw congratulations on 100k subscribers!!! 🎊🎉
I had a Nokia 252, by 2001 it was long in tooth (had a CDMA Startac by then), I recall the model being new in 1997-98ish. Its one of the last AMPS only Nokias and its likely Tracfone got a warehouse full of them cheap as the digital 5100 series was the top seller by '01. The per minute costs of prepay service back then was NOT competitive by a long shot.
One of the things I miss about older phones like this one was how robust the power cable/ports were, like the one shown in the video was strong and just worked, modern version like Micro USB feel inferior. Don't get me wrong I hated the proprietary charging ports of the time, but the basic barrel connectors for me were pretty robust and didn't break easily.
Tracfone is one of the common prepaid carriers in the USA.
1:52 Dot matrix print looks like an Sony HD radio display.
My cable is still analog.
Far less than perfect with this particular analog phone. In a low(er) signal area, it would 'forget' to hang up, eating up every single minute on their service plan! No refunds. :(
8:43 Even Nokia phones today have that as the default ringtone!
Admittedly not as beepy!
Here in Bulgaria all three operators are still supporting analog phones :) You can use it in here.
That's crazy, in Slovakia we only have 2G
2G is is still alive and well in my country (South Africa), and we've used GSM here since 1994, so any old cellphone you come across here will still work, but I didn't realize there were any places that still supported analog. That's really cool.
@@44CT232 It took 3 days for your comment to post here in the US.😁
What system are they using? Unless it's AMPS the Nokia 232C won't work. I've been to Bulgaria and had an analog phone operating in NMT 450 which was the most common analog system in Europe and it didn't get any signal either.
Those ringtones were AMAZING back in the day.
Years ago (maybe 1997 or 98) I won a digital Nokia phone from a 12 pack of 7-Up (or Sprite). Since digital was brand new I wasn't able to get it in service because most service was analog. It looked a lot like this one but it came with a green face plate. It was basically useless because of the fact it was digital. I did end up getting it activated a couple of years later thru Cellular One. Remember them? I used it for work.
most digital phones (CDMA and TDMA) also support analog
M Harris Where did you hear that? I thought TDMA had been long since shut-off everywhere. Would love to know more about that.
Back when phones weren’t made to stare at, and could also be used as a deadly weapon. God I want to back to 2005 so bad.
So I assume you never played snake while waiting your turn at the dentist
the commenter Gameboys existed. I would be the manchild playing kirbys dreamland 2 at age 25
Watching this on 2019 Nokia Smartphone
Me too
12:30 looks like either a 2000 Acura RL, or Legend, I think both are pretty close to resembling the interior shown.
I think it's actually a Mazda Millenia.
It's not an Acura; It's a Mazda Millenia.
I didn't have that particular model, but I've owned Nokia phones.
Back when that model came out I had a cellphone from Siemens. In 2009 I bought a flipphone from Nokia which I use to this day. The type 3 ringtone in the video is my actual ringtone. When cellphones became more expensive I stopped buying new ones. The fun in buying phones was that you could get something fancy and fashionable that's uptodate upmarket technology, for cheap. That changed in 2010 and never changed back.
This was my first cell phone! The year was 1997. I was a senior in high school.
Had one growing up. Thanks for the memories!
All my thrift stores are closed as well, including the Goodwill electronics store that sells computer fans for 50 cents, just as I have to fix a fan in a computer at work.
@M Harris Of couse, I could have easily ordered one online. However, I checked my stash of parts and found a fit. A bit of foresight paid off.
Back in the good old days when you could listen in to a call with a scanner. It was awesome then
That's not good nor awesome. XD Kinda creepy really.
I picked up my first cell phone in 2000 and did talk on it for hours on end - pretty much in the time between Unreal Tournament matches and MSN Messenger chats. I was in high school at the time.
It was a made in Finland Nokia 7190 which was not only digital - but had rudimentary internet access and serial port connectivity. We had one local provider with effectively unlimited airtime so long as it was within your "City" region, bill was about $80 CAD a month if I remember right.
Seeing this video I feel how nostalgia intensifies. Back then Nokia was the best phone manufacturer. I remember in 2002 when I've seen ads on TV with the Nokia 252C Tracfone and I wanted so much. Instead I got the Nokia 3310 which was also my first mobile phone.
Bought my first mobile phone in '98, a Nokia 252 using Cellular One as the service provider. Never changed numbers or service, but service changed as one company after another was bought up by others.
Ringtone type 2...that brings back memories!
Tough as nails, mine lasted forever.
Back to using a Nokia again now, nice smartphone, quite a world of change compared to the start of mobile use!
I'm surprised that analogue phones were still being sold as late as 2001. I believe that Australia, and possibly some other countries, only had digital GSM at that stage.
I think the UK was digital only by 2001, or was very close to switching over at least
In Germany the last analog network ("C-Tel") was officially shut off on 12/31/2000.
A few cells near the Dutch border remained in operation for a few extra months for some reason.
In the US I believe Analog was cut off around 07
I had this phone years back. Great little phone.
There’s a Motorola model kicking around I seen on eBay that is very similar to the one you’re holding it’s digital and it runs on the Verizon side of Tracfone if they will let you activate it.
really enjoyed watching it, i bought the same kind of phone in 2002 the nokia 3361 an analogue phone worked on 1G network. but it would show the D symbol whenever it was in range of signals where you can send SMSs otherwise only calls.
Awesome review! And please stay safe!
This was my first cell phone! Fond memories of this phone.
In the UK when prepaid phones were first introduced you had to buy a secondhand phone. You just could not get a new prepaid phone for a short while anyway. Another odd thing I remember was that it was really difficult to find any shops that sold top up credit, you would walk into post offices and petrol stations, and they would just tell you they had never heard of prepaid credit :)
I remember my first Tracfone... The bulletproof Nokia 918 (which predated the 252C). Back in the days where prepaid cell service was $0.50/minute and you had no SMS or internet. My mother's boyfriend's first cell phone was the 252C, he got quite a few years out of it before the battery finally gave up.
My 918 could go 5-6 days powered on with no use.
One used to be able to get customized face plates on eBay for nearly any cell phone. A few minutes of careful disassembly with a tiny Torx screwdriver, and you could have yourself a new faceplate and be the envy of your friends. (I had Marvin the Martian, which was clearly a sticker decoupaged into a blank faceplate and clearcoated, with holes cut for the keys, but it worked marvelously and only cost $8.)
Good 'ol nokias. I still have my 3210 from 1999.
@Stephen Sword Of course I have both silly. I just have it laying around as a backup.
Where did hear about this phone: RUclips 😂
Thanks for the video and thanks for the link to maritime girl's channel. Really enjoyed her content
Wow, I had no idea that some phones were still rocking teh analogz back in 2001.
Never clicked so fast lol. One of my first cell phones
WHAT!.... HELLO!!
That ringtone always brings back Trigger Happy TV to my mind
Wow, nice video😎
The last nokia tune is 252C, the continued used until 2003.
There were Tracphones in 1994. That was
analog then. Digital mobile phones came out,
about that year, but analog (obviously) was
not phased out for another ten years.
I was a Radioshack store employee at that
time, when the Tracphones contracted with
them to offer their product in the outlets.
So, even though your box is labeled for 2001,
this was probably near to the later phase in
analog service. Analog technology had much
longer range than the current digital - which
required many more towers than analog.
Analog phones also were much higher wattage
signals - up to a full three watts for a "base"
model (which had an actual receiver and hook).
They were actually very powerful - like a CB
base station. Some suspicion was that the
signal could cause cancer in certain users.
That is why these phones DID have an antenna,
which actually did do something. They operate
on a much lower frequency, which has much
longer range. Cellular service is no longer available.
That's why your phone can't reach the network -
all the cell towers are gone.
The newer digital "PCS" digital phones only
transmit at a fraction of a watt. The phones we
use now, actually are not "cellular" anymore,
technically - they're "PCS."
searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definition/PCS
Your tracphone is actually one of the last true
"cellular" phones.
Thanks for the content. Keep up the good work.
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that was one of my first cell phones i owned back in the day, i had the red faceplate
I’m a bit younger than the generation that had these. My first phone was a Nokia 1100, also from Tracfone, that I got back in 2005.
The first phone i remember my dad having was either a 6190, or a 6110, they both look very familiar so i'm pretty sure they're the one he had. Also having an 8210 around the house as a backup or something.
You aren't the only who will be missing out on thriftin'... But think of all the donations when this is all over and folks have been going through their old stuff while stuck at home! Interesting find. I have a box of old cell phones, but nothing in original packaging with protective plastic to peel.
I bought a CMD 80 a few years back after seeing it on the Maritime Girl channel. Mine has the AMPS selection for analog phones. Got it for about $120. Use it with my chunky Motorola flip phone. 😁
But what can you actually do with the CMD 80? I'm wondering if you can make phone calls by connecting to that tester...
Nice old phone. I think it was the 51xx series that were the first models you could change the facia on. They were incredibly popular back in the day.
When i got my 1st samsung galaxy smartphone way back in the days, i throwed my nokia phone in the drawer, and i left it there for 5 months, and when i took it out to see if it would still power up, it did, with 2 bars left! Nokia phones were awesome!
I had an even older Tracfone. The Nokia 918 I believe. And yes, it was indestructible. Its was heavy, and analogue, but it was a good phone!
I bought one of these at a local thrift store. It had a copy of the original receipt from July 6, 2001 inside the box. They paid $50 for the phone, $20 for an accessory pack, and $20 for a 30 minute airtime card. Also, it had a letter from Tracfone with the redemption pin code for that 120 minutes airtime rebate that was shown in the video.
I doubt there's many of those left in the world as untouched as that one, super cool to see! Perhaps they won it and just forgot about it!
My first phone was a Motorola with a remarkably similar display and layout - a much, much worse menu system though.
I loved playing with the antenna
I remember quite a few of those ringtones. My grandma had one of the early tracphones but a little newer than this..I think it was from 2002 or 2003
On keeping old networks alive in remote areas: I wish AT&T had done that on a case by case basis. When they up and shut down EDGE/2G some years ago they left a huge swath of the rural parts around me completely uncovered and they just couldn't be bothered to give a damn about it.
they phased it out to make room for the new 5G network.
@@howtobebasic2122 Hence why I said "case by case". If they haven't bothered to replace their EDGE footprint with LTE, they're definitely not bringing 5G anytime soon, either.
Wyoming by chance?
Or are they just ignoring us too?
Wyo Kaiju nope. I’m on the west coast but good to know I’m not alone!
I love the older tracfone phones
I remember those phones. I never was interested in phones till they got internet, color screens and cameras. My first phone was a Sanyo 8100 in 2003 i bought at Radioshack i was 21 then .
I hope you don't run out of things to make videos about before the thrift stores re-open.
I wonder what it would take to set up an analog base station? so it can work again.
I remember buying one of these at 7/11 around 2002.
I had one of these from 2001 to 2004, so when someone mentions Tracfone now I think of basic prepaid call-only phones like this. There were always kiosks in malls selling faceplates for Nokias - the same ones that now sell phone cases. I had a transparent sticker that went under the faceplate so it looked like there was a holographic dinosaur on the screen.
I miss those times
Wow I could make a 10 minute call from anywhere in the US with this! Take my money.
In Ireland, we had already shut down our analogue mobile network by January 2001. Prepaid GSM phones were already cheap and popular by then, I had one and was 15 at the time. SMS texting was also very commonplace. The US seemed far behind a lot of other countries in terms of mobile technology at the time.
Oh yes, definitely. From about 2003 to 2007, it just felt as though people in Europe had much better phones compared to those in America, generally speaking.
anybody remember when you would be able to BUY ringtones?
I had this phone I bought one on a band trip to Virginia beach. I thought I was so cool back then.
Back then you could change the faceplates and now you cant even replace the battery.
How times change (in the bad way)
I;m not sure but Those numbers in the call log when typed might bring up a programming menu
My very first mobile phone was a Telital PV129 on Vodaphone's abalogue network, and yes it was prepaid. You had to top up at least £15 a month though and half of that was a monthly line rental.
As these were Christmas presents it didn't last beyond the free month. Still cool though having a mobile phone at the age of 10!
I used an older nokia phone the ones with the Nav button. analog and digital modes had snake on it and tons of ringtones. Wish I still had it, I played so much snake on it.
So cool. I had one of those.
My mom had one of these back in the day. As an interesting quirk I recall stumbling onto, it could receive text messages, but not send them.
I used a Tracphone in 2009 in Afghanistan that was a life savor.
They still work and it survived a mortar.
Back when phone owner's manuals were the size of novellas.
I had a Nokia 5110. Although the general build quality was rugged, the power button failed and I spent a while switching it on by pulling off the faceplate and shorting the contacts with a paper clip.
Does anyone know the original song for type 6 ringtone? If you do tell me
“7.99 for 10 minutes of airtime”
That may sound expensive, but a collect call costs $9.99 even if you only call for 5 seconds
I had a Nokia 1610 when I was a kid, looked similar.
I remember the occasional customer asking me to add the minutes for their tracfone when I worked for Walmart. You called the number, entered the scratch off number then had to enter, I swear, 3 sets of maybe 10 numbers. If you didn’t keep up with the automated message telling you the series of numbers you had to start all over. Mostly owned by elderly people who used it for emergencies only.
Hi nice phone i have the same but i do not know how to do call because it doesn't have sim card any possibilty to convert it into sim one ? Or how to operate it
It's an analog cell phone. It won't work anymore.
I'm curious how the credit was managed on these. A few years earlier in the UK you could get a Phillips Diga on BT Cellnet (now o2), on GSM. For some reason they thought it was a good idea to manage credit and top-ups on the device. Hardware hackers also thought it was a good idea to add a PIC micro, programmed to reset the credit on a power cycle. Obviously this was fraud but it went on for a while before they realised the revenue didn't match the network usage and they cracked down on it.
The TracFones sold by Radio Shack included the Motorola StarTAC3000 which was an analog phone. It was sold on both post paid cellular or TracFone. The secret was in the keypad initial programming. Activating a TracFone was done either via an 800 number or their website. A series of strings of numbers were provided based upon the ESN of the phone, the zip code, and thus, their activation server would give a first code which would tell the StarTac to enable the debit counter to keep track of airtime. The second was the MIN (cellphone number) and home SID (cellular system ID). If one just ignored entering the debit counter activation and used the post paid MIN programming instructions (which included the correct phone number and cellular system ID), the phone could be programmed as a "post paid" phone and for the low price of $7.99 a month, one had unlimited calling anywhere AMPS service was available. Sure this was fraud, but then again, was it? Subscriber paid phone lawfully, used factory provided instructions, and never tampered with the phones' software, and still paid TracFone by buying the monthly airtime card. Oh those were the days.
I think you used to call a top up line and scratch off the card. The top up line knew which number you were calling from or asked you to key it and gave you credit ... Or that's how it worked 1999/2000? I think that was 2G or EDGE/GPRS though
How can I get this phone plz tell me
Does anyone know of a website where I can download old school ringtones that sound like this? I am a sucker for a nostalgia and just watching this video takes me back to a time when it cost an arm and a leg to keep minutes on your phone except for after 9 p.m. when you got free talk and text. Most people would just wait to talk to each other till after then. Because back then landlines were being used up by dial-up internet so the phone wasn't available. But seriously I want to download old-school sounding ringtones. So if anyone can help me find them thank you.
I'm in the UK, the first mobile phone I ever got was in 1997 when I was 21, it was on vodafone pay as you talk and was an analog Telital PV129 it cost £99. It was one of the first pay as you go phones that vodafone did, they also did a Motorola but that cost a bit more as it was digital.
There's a small pocket or two of AMPS services alive around KY and in Alaska as well, but mostly only for industrial parks/oil rig workers. I can pick up a bar or two near the aluminum plant in Sebree with an old MicroTAC Motorola. They don't work though unless you're on their network and they use proprietary equipment. Kinda a trip back in time to catch old analog looking phones on the tool belts of the workers though. SAT phones also look hideously out of date as well.